October 2007: Table of Contents
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Features
From the Editors
Craft Check: Etched Glass Candle Holders
Any monster-filled gaming session, tabletop or video, can benefit from a little atmospheric mood lighting. It’s easy to just dim the lights, or set up a few pillar candles, but it’s also not that hard to customize some inexpensive glass holders to add an extra little touch of detail to your lighting scheme. Also, it’s fun!
Gaming in the Media: Gaming Blogs to Watch
For this installment of Gaming in the Media, I am going to deviate from providing game commentary or analysis and instead provide you with some reviews of other gaming blogs to watch. While I do read many of the more mainstream blogs (Kotaku, Gamasutra, etc.) the lesser known blogs tend to provide me with a bit more to grapple with mentally.
Market to Me: Race and gender in survival horror games
The rampant sexism and racism in the horror genre has almost become a joke, as with horror movies and how people bet on how long the beautiful woman will stay alive or whether or not the black comic relief guy will make it through to the end. While it can be argued that survival horror games aren’t nearly as mired down by these tropes, it is still quite clear that they haven’t entirely left them behind.
Interviews
Blogger Interview: The Bloggers of Girl in the Machine
Articles
Gender & Live-Action Role Play: Into the Tavern
Author: Samara Steele
Samara continues her series on gender and LARP.
Moving Gaming Forward: Having Meaningful Conversations about Social Issues
Author: Latoya Peterson
Latoya talks about the failure to communicate between racial activists and gamers.
Fatal Frame: Feminizing the Final Girl
Author: Jenni Lada
Jenni discusses the ways in which the Fatal Frame series subverts the ‘final girl’ stereotype in survival horror.
Shotgun vs. Skirt: Gender in Resident Evil 4
Author: Diego Luna
Diego critically examines gender representation in Capcom’s Resident Evil 4.
