Trying out yet another format for Friday “This Week” posts…
The Definitive Monkey: MTV voted Donkey Kong as video gaming’s top monkey, with the help of yours truly.
My Vagina Hero: Lesbian Gamers wonder why men can joke about female genitals as they related to Guitar Hero and get LOLs while their piece on the “biggest dicks” in gaming got them flamed. Personally, I’m not laughing or offended, I’m just intrigued.
Don’t Hate Them Because They’re Beautiful: “homoerotic shooter” featuring naked men in bowls comes to the PSP.
Bonnie Ruberg is a sex, technology, and video games journalist who contributes regularly to publications like The Economist, Forbes, and The Village Voice. By day she's also a comparative literature PhD student at UC Berkeley, where she studies French, English, gender, sexuality, surrealism and perversion. You can reach her at [her first name and last name, all one big word] AT gmail DOT com.
August 16th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Yeeeah that article was poorly written, though the idea is funny.
Also, that shooter I had heard of before and it’s actually supposed to be amazing in terms of shooters. But you know, filled with hot gay men.
Sooooo if I owned a PSP I’d probably get it, cause I love shooters, but sadly I don’t.
August 18th, 2008 at 4:40 am
I am scared by the Vagina hero controller… It looks like an interpretation of an alien vagina.
August 18th, 2008 at 11:14 am
I’m not sure if the person who designed it is mocking people who don’t understand how vaginas work with the button lay out, or if he just doesn’t understand, for example, that the lips of the labia would so not score you any points.
August 18th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
I discussed this with a female friend of mine too and, the article talks about 6 buttons so apparently from all the colors you only need to press one of each not the whole focking Labia or Clitoral hood and why the heck also so much buttons on them!? he clearly tried to keep faith to the appearance by making clear the shape of the labia and clitor… nope. It’s just a poor lowlife with no understanding.