The Nerdstream Era

The year is 2000. Planet Moon Studios published their first game, "Giants: Citizen Kabuto". It wasn't the first game for the d...

T his post comes out of a new series of writing I do on ASOIAF meta and other topics of popular culture over at the Patreon of the Boiled...

It's really hard to tell stories of downfall and doom in a video game, since so many games revolve around fulfilling power fantasies,...

In case you never heard of "Stellaris", you're either living under a rock or really aren't that much into really comple...

Exactly a year ago, I jumped onto the Anita Sarkeesian bandwagon with both feet. I had encountered her "Tropes vs. Women" serie...

Warning: Mild spoilers for the first episode ahead.  Telltale is by now a household name for dramatic storytelling in video games, with...

In my latest post linking to Sarkeesian's latest video, I talked about her and the other "Social Justice Warriors" winning th...

Today, I used Anita Sarkeesian's " Women as Background Decoration " in class. The pupils are 10th graders, which in Germany m...

When I talked about my relation to Anita Sarkeesian's videos last week , I found something curious: the "Women as Background Decor...

Bringing feminism to a gaming console near you I have never liked feminism. Then I watched Anita Sarkeesian. This may sound melodramati...

Can you make a game about World War I? An adventure game, no less? Ubisoft tried its hand at it. The result is a game called "Valiant ...

A few days ago, the second and final episode of the "Burial at Sea" DLC for "BioShock Infinite" was released. The first...

When Diablo III was released back in 2012, it contained a feature named "The Auctionhouse", in which you could sell your in-game ...

I have to say, the existence of Blackguards came as a surprise to me. I didn't know of the game until its release, but I was interested...

Practically every game that takes place in the World War II era has one selling point in common, whether it's a stategy game or a shoot...

I was always a huge fan of the Max Payne franchise. The first two games were beautifully made, and I played them several times in ye olden ...

I played the new Tomb Raider. Ok, in reality, I played it several weeks ago, but I had too many assignments to do the game justice by revie...

Almost three years, we waited for the first expansion pack for "StarCraft II", a wait than be described as unprecedented, especia...

Von Stefan Sasse Let's begin this article with two quotes and a disclaimer:  “This one is behind us now. We are taking Medal o...

Back in 2010, there was nothing as eagerly anticipated as StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. It was high time that the torch was taken from St...