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Women and Queerness in Horror: Tragedy Girls

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Tragedy Girls. When I sat down to write for this series, this week, I found myself needing a break. Not from writing though; as I’m sure you’ve all gathered by now, I am generally incapable of…

World of Warcraft’s Current Allied Races Revisited

If you’re a recurring reader of Phenixx Gaming, there’s a possibility you might remember an editorial I wrote over a year ago about my thoughts on each playable Allied Race in World of Warcraft. Considering how old that article is by this…

Nintendo’s Reluctance to Return to What Works

Paper Mario: The Origami King is selling well and reviewing well too. Most people who play it have better things to say about it than most Paper Mario games released in the past 20 years. Still, it doesn’t quite feel the same. I’m in…

David’s Retro Rewind – Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance

I’ve found that it only takes two words to get adrenaline pumping through the hearts of casual fighting game fans and highly-skilled connoisseurs alike: “Mortal Kombat!” Even though I did not yet exist when the original Mortal Kombat smashed its way into…

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…

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…