http://www.heroine-sheik.com Tue, 13 May 2008 07:03:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sure, you read the reviews that Village Voice Media writers Chris Ward and Gary Hodges publish every week in the screens section of the Voice site. Ok, maybe you do, maybe you don't. But either way you'll be happy--or at least vaguely interested-- to know that you can ... http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2008/05/13/more-video-game-coverage-from-the-village-voice/ Wow, this is shaping up to be the fall of conferences. In addition to presenting at Arse Elektronika in San Francisco this September, I'll be putting together a panel on using virtual worlds to teach second languages for the special education edition of State of Play. The event, which will ... http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2008/05/12/bonnies-panel-at-state-of-play-in-chicago/ -Forget Wii-mote waggling, and start thinking Wii-mote wriggling. MTV Multiplayer reports that Peekaboo Pole Dancing, the company responsible for the Carmen Electra pole dancing kit, are seeking a partnership with Nintendo to work on a licensed pool dancing game for the Wii. While there's no word yet whether the ... http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2008/05/09/this-week-slippery-sucky-and-sad/ Only slightly behind the times, I've finally gotten around to setting up both a Heroine Sheik group and a business page on Facebook. The group is called "Video game get me hot and bothered (i.e. I heart Heroine Sheik)," and the business page is creatively titled just "Heroine Sheik." ... http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2008/05/08/be-a-heroine-sheik-fan-on-facebook/ When it comes to providing you with awesome, cutting-edge sex content, you've got to give The Village Voice a hand. They've got Dan Savage's advice column, Tristan Taormino's sex industry insider column, and of course Click Me, a column by yours truly about sex and technology. Now the ... http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2008/05/07/naked-city-joins-sex-at-the-voice/ As of the end of April, I finished teaching here in France. My contract is up, and my hooligans will have to find someone new to torment with questions about America, guns, and pancakes. One thing I will say for my less-than-enthusiastic English students: they always perked up ... http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2008/05/06/since-when-does-n64-nostalgia-make-me-an-old-lady/ Don't worry, this isn't a post about how Grand Theft Auto IV is racist, or even how it has racist imagery. And you were all ready with your angry comments, weren't you? As predicted, the latest installment in the GTA series is already stirring up controversy. Is it too violent? ... http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2008/05/05/race-in-grand-theft-auto-iv-yes-that-can-of-worms/ -Who doesn't like jumping to their death while wearing a latex body suit? Feministe brings us this handy write-up of indie PC game "Mighty Jill Off," in which a queen a queen's servant in BDSM gear has to leap back up to power, avoiding painful obstacles. The message: ... http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2008/05/02/this-week-masochistic-even-more-masochistic-and-plain-old-massive/ Oh my, the reading list keeps growing. Fellow sex tech writer Damon Brown, currently of Playboy, is coming out with an exciting new book this fall called Porn and Pong: How Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider, and Other Sexy Games Changed Our Culture. Brown specializes in pop culture, so it ... http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2008/05/01/damon-browns-new-porn-and-pong/ Zivity, the "community- powered showcase promoting female beauty," may not be the ultimate combination of web 2.0 and sexy imagery it sets itself up to be--but when it comes to presenting alternative bodies, it's actually pretty impressive. The site, which I featured in a Click Me last year, posts photo sets ... http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2008/04/30/beautiful-alternative-bodies-at-zivity/