Shoryuken, one of the most respected voices in the fighting games community, has called upon its readers and followers to deal honestly with questions of misogyny and sexual harassment, following sexist match commentary on a controversy that has roiled the fighting games community for a second day.
The fighting game scene has taken a lot of criticism this week due to the controversy surrounding one player’s harassment of another player on Capcom’s internet reality show Cross Assault.
In the video game adventures of Commander Shepard, being a gay man was neither a matter of biology nor choice.
Reader Andrew points us towards this documentary. Which goes for 20 minutes. And which is entirely about the seemingly endless debate over the gender of Final Fight’s Poison.
In a promotional video interview that went live on February 6, David Jaffe included a statement that I and others found objectionable. So I objected. After the piece ran, Jaffe reached out to me through Twitter and we agreed to schedule a call. Yesterday evening, we spoke about the issue by phone for roughly half an hour.
Game designer David Jaffe has been in the news quite a bit this week. His newest game, Twisted Metal is set to launch in a few days and his recently announced impending departure from studio Eat Sleep Play made a bit of a splash.
Recently my friend, who for this article we’ll call “Dan”, was over at my apartment for beers and video games. We’d gone through most of the big recent releases — I showed him some craziness from Saints Row: The Third, got across the gist of Catherine and played some (shockingly fun) split-screen Modern Warfare 3 spec-ops. The Kinect had gotten a go as well, and we’d laughed our way through several levels of Gunstringer and gotten our arses kicked by the surprisingly difficult Child of Eden.
Get some popcorn and/or a cup of tea. This is some good late night reading.
A few months ago, I wrote an article on nerds and male privilege. Maybe you read it.
