Satisfactory: One Year On
I think like too many of us, I’ll get the pull from Minecraft to open it up once in a while. However, like many of you, I also stop playing after a few hours because I’ve been playing it for years. I’ve been…
Category: Editorial
Women and Queerness in Horror: The Perfection
Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Perfection, mentions of sex and violence, mentions of self-harm, and mentions of child sexual abuse and rape. Last week, I talked about the meandering, lesbian-fear-inflected Single White Female. I went into all the ways it…
Ubisoft Exec says “Women Don’t Sell Games;” They do!
Ubisoft is getting a right good kicking of late, for all the right reasons. If you’ve been living under a rock, the company has copped about a dozen sexual misconduct and harassment claims in the last three or so weeks. Now, following…
How Lovecraftian is Apostle (2018), anyway?
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Apostle, images of violence and blood, and mentions of racism. Many a horror fan and purveyor of all things cosmic and monster-kind, has reached the point in their fandom life of disavowing H.P. Lovecraft. Not all…
Gaming Isn’t A Waste, It Is Escapism
Twitter is just a place for incendiary comments, shouting headlines at each other, and a complete lack of nuanced “debate.” Speaking as Phenixx Gaming’s social media manager for Twitter, it is a horrible place full of bile and hatred by people who…
Gamer Girl: Where “Empathy Games” Don’t Work
Warning: This article contains mentions of stalking, abuse, and sexual harassment. On July 16th, FMV Future and Wales Interactive released a trailer for their upcoming full-motion video game, Gamer Girl. This announcement was quickly met with considerable backlash regarding the worrying and…
David’s Thoughts on Civ VI’s New Frontier Pass DLC 1
Folks, I’m sure it’s no secret by this point that I absolutely adore virtually everything about Sid Meier’s Civilization VI. That’s why I was so ecstatic when my good friend and colleague here at Phenixx Gaming, Alexx, was recently kind enough to…
Women and Queerness in Horror: Single White Female
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Single White Female, as well as discussions of ableism, homophobia, sex and violence, sexual assault, and animal abuse/death. Over the past two weeks, I’ve looked at movies I’ve had pretty positive things to say about for…
Super Mario 64 Vs. Banjo Kazooie
In the late 90s, platformers were king as the genre captivated a generation new to the flashy three dimensions presented to them. Super Mario 64 stormed out of the gate, with plenty of imitators not being able to capture the same magic.…
Stop Giving Me Meaningless Gender Choices
I cannot shut up about diversity and inclusivity in video games, ever. Given half the chance, I will happily explain to you why that single-player main character is secretly gay or bisexual when textually there’s absolutely no evidence to suggest they’re anything…