The GayGamer.net team is here at E3 2013 in Los Angeles, and we’ll be bringing you all the biggest games and stories from the convention all week long. Given that we’ll be having a lot more posts than normal, use this one as a hub for all...
Massive Chalice, if you haven’t heard of it, is the latest game coming from the fancy folks over at Double Fine. It’s a little difficult to pin down what type of game it will be, but in their words, it’s “If turn-based tactics...
Today I was fortunate enough to come across a delightful video in which Ellen Mclain, the voice of Portal’s GLaDOS, bakes a cake. Whether or not the cake is a lie is still tbd, but the question remains: Why is Ms. Mclain baking a delicious conf...
Last week many in the gay gaming world were shocked to find that a Facebook game recreating the horrifying events in Tblisi, Georgia had been created. The game, titled Call of Taburetka, featured an Orthodox Georgian priest taking on hoards of LGBT r...
Last year, EA surprised the world by participating in Pride parades in both San Francisco and Seattle (PopCap). Well, this year the company will outdo their previous efforts by expanding that support around the world.
EA announced on their blog that...
That’s right! GayGamer.net’s favorite drag superstar, and hardcore gamer, Pandora Boxx will be making her mark on the first ever LGBT gaming convention GaymerX this August in San Francisco. Ms. Boxx is the latest Boss of Honor announced f...
Last week in Tbilisi, Georgia (the country north of Turkey, not the state) an LGBT rally, gathered in celebration of International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, was met with brutal opposition by conservative protestors, led by authorities o...
Author’s Note: In light of an earlier publication on this site regarding bullying and it’s negative effects, I just wanted to emphasize that the praise being leveled at Rockstar’s Bully is not due to any actual acts of mistreatment. While attempts are made to draw sympathetic pathos for a bully NPC, it is in the context of why he would be drawn to bullying, not because he engages in the act.
Author’s Note, Con. Several comments have pointed out that multiple gay relationships are available in ‘Bully’, one for each clique as a matter of fact. While this doesn’t change any particular commentary I had to say about our unnamed bully friend in question, I did mistakenly call a relationship with him the only one of it’s kind (read: gay) available in the game. Thanks for the catch in the comments, guys!
In the third of what I shall now refer to as my “Gav Reads Too Much Into Random Games” series, we are going to explore how a simple addition, seemingly made just to draw publicity through ire, is also one of the best representations homosexuals have had in video games.
It’s probably a pretty odd question, but it’s one I kept brushing up against while I was brushing up on my Francis Bacon know-how for a previous article on Silent Hill right here on GayGamer.Net. Bacon had a massive influence on the artistic direction of Silent Hill, and his work often contained themes of sexuality and/or violence. As a gay man, however, most of the paintings that were explicitly sexual in Bacon’s work were focused on the male form – but as a whole, the Silent Hill series is very much a negative heterosexual male perspective on sexuality (particularly female sexuality).
This may not necessarily be as oppressive as it might sound, given that the narrative of Silent Hill goes to great pains to demonstrate that its protagonists have very problematic, negative ideas about sexuality. In fact, the narrative makes it pretty clear that any representation of human life the player comes up against (from sexuality to family, from guilt to being teased at school) are by definition the protagonist’s own profoundly negative ideas.
That doesn’t change the fact that most of Silent Hill‘s representations of sexuality come from straight male characters and their attitudes to female sexuality, whose perspectives can pretty much be summed up with “women’s bodies are mysterious and foreign and sexy and scary.”
[Trigger warnings for discussion of sexual abuse from here on out, and spoiler warnings for the main themes of Silent Hill 3, as well as bosses in Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill: Homecoming].
And we’re off to the races. Tuesday Microsoft unveiled their new console, the Xbox One. While Microsoft’s big reveal focused mainly on hardware and multimedia, with most major game announcements being saved for E3, it’s still all that anybody can talk about. We here at GayGamer.net have all compiled our initial impressions of the Xbox One reveal right here for your reading pleasure. Most of us range from “ew” to “meh”, and we even manage to compare Microsoft to both Grindr and Craigslist. Suck it, other gaming sites.
As should be evident by now, your humble and obedient servant is a creature of spite – yet few things inspire greater loathing than those who prey on others. Said loathing finds its form in the dream of a new world – a bright and beautiful one – in which no bully is un-emasculated, no *ss un-kicked, and naturally, no d*chebag un-pantsed amidst a cacophony of laughter and jeers. Yet there are those precious few in this world who take the high road, possessing a heart made less of black fire and vengeance, and more of what medical science calls, “actual heart.”
Such is the case of Caine, a boy whose story is dismally common in the unpleasantness that is childhood. Indeed, he has been subjected to verbal and physical abuse from fellow students, due to that most egregious of worldly wrongs: being different. Exacerbating matters is the fact that Caine has two moms, making him a natural target for those who have grown up with what we will charitably call the “traditional values” mentality. In order to provide some respite from the daily harassment. In his words, “gaming actually really helps me a lot to calm down and get out of the troubling parts of my life.”
Yet despite this outlet, the reality of bullying remains. Rather than turning to violence or hiding his experiences, our stalwart Texan has decided to speak out not only to The Bully Project; he decided to address the superintendent directly. So check out the video, and as always, feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section below!
UK based rapper and YouTube personality Dan Bull has been rapping about the internet, politics, gaming, and more since 2006. Over this time he’s earned quite the following in the nerd core realm, with some of his most popular tracks being gaming inspired. Today Mr. Bull has taken quite the bold step by releasing a new song titled Gay Gay Games in which he proclaims, ” It is okay, to go gay…ming.”
When Dan went, “The very basic aim that makes a game a game is choice, so if you take the choice away then what’s the flaming point?” I damn near stood and clapped. Well effing said. Dan has now firmly cemented himself a member of an ever growing queer-positive rap world, joining the likes of queer and allied artists Macklemore, Mykki Blanco, and Le1f. Times are a changin’ in the hip-hop and nerd worlds, both usually seen as homophobic bastions, and it’s artists like Dan Bull that are helping to bridge the gap between them as well as the gays.
The Wii U is available for purchase, the PS4 is well on its way, and now it’s Microsoft’s turn to show us what they’ve got in store for the oncoming next console generation. After months of rumors about always-online functionality, attacks on used games and piracy, and even the name, we will finally get some answers from team green. Today at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific Microsoft will be officially unveiling the next Xbox via livestream only on Xbox Live, Xbox.com, SpikeTV, and Gametrailers.com.
Feel free to get your popcorn .gifs ready, and come back right here in about 2.5 hours for live updates of the big unveiling.
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We’re only one hour away from the reveal. Don’t forget to use the #xboxreveal hashtag when tweeting about the next gen event, and until things get rolling use the #xboxmemories hashtag to reflect back on the last two gens.
Animal Crossing isn’t the only game that has real staying power in my Wii/Wii U… five years now after the release of Wii Fit (Seriously? Five years? That’s insane!), I still use it nearly every day. And as you can see from the chart above, it’s helping me maintain the progress that I made all those years ago. I’ll explain in full after the jump!
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