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…ostensibly gay character in Phoenix Wright. As one commenter on the article points out, a fair amount of this, I’d hazard a guess, boils down to cultural differences between east and west and perhaps unfamiliarity with non-stereotypical representations of gay characters in Eastern media. As Denis says,

…this is what I would expect of a gay representation from film and television in the 80s. Even though almost all bit players in the series are couched in foibles and comedy, I found myself extremely uncomfortable when the game wanted me to laugh at Jean

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What with new games to play, steam sales to snap up bargains from, and the never-ending deluge of solid games criticism it’s been a tough week to stay on top of it all. As always, please consider sending links to the Critical Distance twitter account.

Quintin Smith is a games journalist type, and here’s part 2 and part 3 of his advice to future games journalist types, “What not to say”.

Paul Bauman writing on his destructoid blog says that “gaming…appears to be entering the awkward, slowly evolutionary, “teenage” phase of its development“. It’s an interesting point

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…at Activision which, citing a number of sources, alleges pressure is often put on developers to conform to focus testing, and in particular to conform to profitable sterotypes. The result, as investigated by Alexander, is often to the detriment of the representation of female protagonists, and the practice is so much in evidence apparently that there are “No Female Heroes At Activision”. Top shelf journalism, the likes of which is all too rarely seen in the enthusiast press.

Daniel Primed at his personal blog attempts to ‘deconstruct the Mario franchise on the Game Boy’.

At Bitmob Omar Yusuf…

…personal. It’s too casual. Too many writers inserting too much of themselves in ways that nobody in their right minds cares about. Too many armchair journalists speaking as though their word is gospel. Really, think about that. Armchair journalism has become the standard. Kids on forums actually now truly believe that their opinions are hyper-relevant, because after all, they can write just as convincingly as your average blogger. They’re not really wrong!

Although I confess to skimming parts of the lengthy manifesto, enduring TWIVGB favourite Leigh Alexander’s contribution (Chapter 7) is also well worth a read.

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