Can pop culture overcome stereotypes about women, and give us more complex female anti-heroes? Given the rise of popular male anti-heroes in television and film, Alyssa Rosenberg thinks that evil stepmothers and fairy-tale villainesses could be a good way to give female protagonists a similar role. Shows like Mad Men or Breaking Bad or The […]
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I don’t have much to add to the scandal surrounding the firing of John Derbyshire from National Review (or rather, the ending of his freelancing contract there.) In brief, Derbyshire was let go because of this. For a nuanced take on that issue, see Forbes contributor Josh Barro (who also writes at NR.) But I think […]
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and 343 Industries have enlisted music producer and composer Neil Davidge to compose the score for Halo 4. Davidge has been the co-writer and producer for the last three albums from “trip hop” group Massive Attack. I’m not particularly a fan of techno-style music (forgive me if “techno” is an archaic term that doesn’t cleave […]
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As Alyssa Rosenberg notes, it’s hardly surprising that HBO is renewing Game of Thrones for a third season. The show is wildly popular, and rightfully so. Season two is shaping up just as strong, if not stronger, than the first season though it’s certainly too early to tell. And for those of you who have read […]
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Something about the notion of turning the popular young adult novel The Hunger , and its film adaptation, into a video game rubs me the wrong way. It’s not that it would almost certainly require players to kill children, either, though that’s a thorny issue. Rather, it’s something about the nature of the book itself […]
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I’ve seen the images floating around the internet right now, showing how spambots have been used to inflate the signatures on the Allout.org anti-boycott petition we discussed yesterday, which defends EA against right-wing boycott artists. (Examples of the screenshots can be seen here and here, though the comments themselves are no longer visible at the […]
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SOPA may be dead, but its spiritual successors promise to haunt the internet for years to come. Indeed, it’s not a matter of “if” but “when” new laws make their way from the entertainment lobby to our elected officials’ desks and on to a vote in Congress. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is raising some […]
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So far, inXile’s Kickstarter crowd-funding drive for Wasteland 2 has been a huge success. One of the neat things about the project is that the crowd of investors can watch as the game takes shape, and see where their money is going. One of our first glimpses into the game’s development is the first piece […]
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Brevity is the soul of wit, and William sums up very briefly why the internet rallied against EA and gave the gaming publisher a Golden Poo award. If you haven’t been playing close attention, “it’s not just over the Mass Effect 3 ending,” writes , “it’s over Origin, it’s over Project $10, it’s over early server closings, it’s about DLC […]
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Back in September of 2011, reddit was pushed out of the nest, leaving Condé Nast and striking out on its own – sort of. Reddit remained under the ownership of Advance Publications, the parent company of Condé Nast. But the powers-that-be decided the site would be better on its own. With its newfound independence, reddit […]
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