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08/16/09

Stockholm: An Exploration of True Love - A Sociopath's Dream

Stockholm is an interactive DVD in which you play a sadistic and creepy (even though it's first person) kidnapper. The point, as the name may suggest, is to get your captor to fall in love with you. This goal is to be accomplished through fear using torture, rape, forced nudity, suffocation, gassing, etc. Charming. more »

03:39:19 am, by heather riot Email

05/02/09

Video Games, Queer Nerds, and Activism: Queertopia

Here is the paper I presented at Queertopia! 2.0 today. This conference has been one of the reasons I have not been able to write as many articles lately. The other reasons all relating to finishing up my last semester of coursework on my MA program in W… more »

08:29:45 pm, by heather riot Email

04/12/09

The Timothy Plan: The Christian Right's Answer to Game Studies

Categories: ARTICLES, web, video games Permalink
The Timothy Plan is a "Christian financial planning" firm which "avoids investing in companies that are involved in practices contrary to Judeo-Christian principles. Our goal is to recapture traditional American values. We are America's first pro-life, p… more »

06:08:41 am, by heather riot Email

03/16/09

Fresh Prince vs. KKK: Flash Game

Categories: SHOTS/BLURBS, web games Permalink
Here's a game I found on That video game site created by Tony & Matt St Leger.My opinion of this game is split. While I think that it's a good premise for a game, particularly since I found it while searching specifically for a game that would al… more »

03:56:27 am, by heather riot Email

02/28/09

Border Patrol Flash Game

Categories: SHOTS/BLURBS, web games Permalink
It seems as though for every one report expressing distaste against the game, there are at least 10 threads extolling the harmless fun of the game. Before giving them their day in court, it is important to consider that "harmless fun" doesn't, in my opinion, contain racist slurs or pregnant women and their children are targeted as "breeders" or proliferators more »

06:09:24 am, by heather riot Email

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    Stockholm is an interactive DVD in which you play a sadistic and creepy (even though it's first person) kidnapper. The point, as the name may suggest, is to get your captor to fall in love with you. This goal is to be accomplished through fear using torture, rape, forced nudity, suffocation, gassing, etc. Charming.

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