Moral Relativism in Heavy Rain: Pre and Post-Partum
Or, How Having a Baby Made Me a Murderer By Valerie Valdes WARNING: This article contains spoilers for Heavy Rain. I consider myself an ethical person . I drive the speed limit. I don’t pirate music....
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By Valerie Valdes This article contains minor Mass Effect series spoilers. Wise muse, Calliope, lover of War, Sing to me of your soldier, Shepard called, Who some say came from earth, and some from...
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By Valerie Valdes I was never what you’d call a casual gamer. But when you have a kid, your amount of free time shrinks to a number best expressed using a negative exponent. For some moms, though,...
View ArticleMythologizing the Gamer Grrl
by Valerie Valdes You’ve seen a video like it, or a comic, or read a story. Some poor dude is being berated by his girlfriend or wife for spending too much time playing one of those gosh darn video...
View ArticleTelling Stories Through Glitches: Review of Ghosts in the Machine
For a book that involves worlds and places we can never inhabit, Ghosts in the Machine speaks a lot of truth about how we interact and exist in our own day to day lives. Ghosts in the Machine is a...
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