"Faye — who we have known as a wife and mother — is being given a chance to be a person," Kate Cox writes.

The newest release from SpriteWrench, Duppy Detective Tashia, leans hard into Caribbean culture and folklore.

Female friendships operate almost entirely in the subtext. Mixtape gets it right.

"I decided to show my girlfriend who knows nothing about video games Ni No Kuni."

"What if you could respond to that guy catcalling you by shooting him? And what kind of person would you be if that were how you were living?"

Caring for my Mii self encouraged me to care for my real-life self as well

“It feels like you are losing a second home..."

"Playing with random people online is not particularly appealing..."

When it comes to portrayals of women behaving badly, we deserve better than consequence-free power fantasies or unthinking vilification

Ciri's status as a Witcher is not as lore-breaking or clear-cut as some people claim

Cloud's emotional distance still leaves the door open for queer interpretations

Yes, Fortnite is on the list

I gave Aerith a botany book and now she holds gatherings to rant about how you can’t have gardening without “God.”

The impact on my career and relationships with other journalists is tangible

By separating aesthetic presentation from player agency, Final Fantasy VII Remake reveals how queerness can be represented without being playable

Somewhere between burnout and bedtime, video games stopped feeling like entertainment and started feeling like shelter.

"There’s a lot of titles, and remakes, and spinoffs, and gold and royal editions…"

"We just did create every combination we could think of, and then we basically were tweaking stuff based on how it felt to play the game in those situations.”

What LGM hopes to accomplish with her meme page, from developing a game to funding mutual aid

Kairi, Larxene, and the rest of Kingdom Hearts' female characters were too often the butt of jokes in the 2000s

What if you shifted your mindset toward joy around watching her learn, rather than watching her win?

In honor of Cool Sword Day, let us interrogate the Master Sword's power (and lack thereof)

"I can fix him"? No, you can't. You really, really can't

On queer awakening, world-ending princesses, and becoming incomprehensible

"A brief search online seems to show endless fields of lit-up rigs for sale; what drives that aesthetic?"

It took me way too long to figure this out

The team was never hot in the ol' days, anyway.

"Dave the Diver taught my 1st grader to read! What's next?"

The most recent Pokémon game takes a lax attitude toward gender and pronouns

“You have followed my instructions faithfully thus far. Continue to do so.”