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Your Favorite Lesbian and Bisexual TV Characters in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

If you can guess all of them I’ll be very impressed! 

By Heather Hogan| January 19, 2021 | 6 Comments
Geekery

“The Last of Us Part II” and the Never Ending Endings of Endlessness

I did my best to not let my lurking paranoia get in the way of being happy during certain portions of the game but it was an ever present feeling. Even now, having finished the game, it is still there. The few times I forgot about it I found myself taking comfort in two women deeply in love, in the shit together.

By Jessica Vazquez| July 9, 2020 | 23 Comments
Geekery

Animal Crossing FOMO? Here’s How to Start Playing Video Games!

If, like me, you’re planning to keep social distancing for the foreseeable future, maybe you should pick up video gaming for socialization and for fun!

By Heather Hogan| May 7, 2020 | 14 Comments
Two Animal Crossing neighbors, one who is brown and wearing a beanie, and one who is white wearing a red beanie, fish together while smiling.
Arts + Pop Culture

IRL Dating Is Canceled, but Animal Crossing Is Perfect for Cute Queer Dates

Sweetly enough, it’s possible to have a shocking number of cute ass dates on Animal Crossing. I’m lucky to be quarantined with my girlfriend, but we’re running low on date opportunities.

By Rachel| April 21, 2020 | 7 Comments
Geekery

Animal Crossing: New Horizons and 15 Other Anxiety-Busting Video Games

No time like the present to build an adorable civilization from the ground up!

By Heather Hogan| March 23, 2020 | 32 Comments
Geekery

“Untitled Goose Game” Is an Adorable Fifteen-Dollar F*ck You To Authority

HONK!!!!!

By Heather Hogan| October 1, 2019 | 22 Comments
First Person

How My Badass Butch Skyrim Character Saved My Life

In the mirror, I saw a scrawny, hollow-eyed girl dressed in ill-fitting boys’ clothes, a parody of a parody of masculinity. But in the screen, I saw myself made strong, confident, fearless, perfect.

By Rae Nieves| May 2, 2019 | 15 Comments
Geekery

“Assassin’s Creed Odyssey” Forced My Lesbian Xena to Have Sex With a Man and Have His Baby and YIKES

Legacy of the First Blade is one of the most egregious lesbian storylines I’ve ever seen.

By Heather Hogan| February 25, 2019 | 14 Comments
Geekery

“Donut County” Is a Perfect Game For People Who Need a Break From Their Rage

I don’t need another anger hobby, I have Twitter. Give me easy games, bud. That’s what I want.

By dufrau| October 15, 2018 | 11 Comments
Geekery

Don’t Let the Stick Figures Fool You, “West of Loathing” Is One of the Best RPGs I’ve Ever Played

“Maybe it’s my depression talking, but I think running errands is heroic.”

By dufrau| July 31, 2018 | 10 Comments
Geekery

“Detroit: Become Human” Mines Familiar Social Justice Stories for Empathy and Fails Miserably

It’s a really pretty game, though, and there’s a very good dog.

By dufrau| June 28, 2018 | 22 Comments
Geekery

“Gorogoa” is a Gorgeous, Dreamy Puzzle Experience That’ll Let You Put Your Stress on Hold

This game was exactly what I needed: a couple of hours where my busy brain could focus on tangible puzzles with achievable solutions.

By Jenna| June 7, 2018 | 3 Comments
Geekery

Mario Kart Characters Ranked in Terms of Queerness

I always played as Toad or Yoshi, which I didn’t know at the time was because I was gay! Or it turned me gay; it’s not clear which. Some Mario Kart characters are more queer than others, and over the many years and 10+ games we’ve had plenty of opportunity to speculate about their IDs.

By Abeni Jones| May 28, 2018 | 26 Comments
Geekery

“House Flipper” Gives You the Power to Live Your Wildest Real Estate Mogul Dreams

“It’s not even about fanciness or property ownership as much as it’s about imagining if my house could just be clean right now? It’s a powerful drug, let me tell you.”

By dufrau| May 24, 2018 | 6 Comments
Geekery

Even My Soft Butch Hufflepuff Dreamboat Couldn’t Redeem the Cash-Grabbing Mess of “Hogwarts Mystery”

Merlin’s Beard, Jam City! Way to take all the magic out of Hogwarts!

By Jenna| May 10, 2018 | 22 Comments
Geekery

You Should Play “NieR: Automata” if You Like Hot Androids, Cute Robots, or Nude Somebodies

The combat has a frenetic arcade-iness that makes me a little giddy even as I’m being chewed up by the robot dog that was for some reason built under the metallic skirts of the robot diva that was for some reason deemed an essential part of the robot invasion force.

By dufrau| April 26, 2018 | 4 Comments
Geekery

“Celeste” Is a Very Difficult Video Game for People Who Know What It’s Like to Have Something to Prove

Celeste sets out to climb a mountain and learns a whole lot about herself along the way.

By Jenna| April 12, 2018 | 8 Comments
Geekery

TDOV Spotlight: Annie Mok’s “They Say That I’m A Witch”

“Traveling back in time to school days, and getting to confront one’s bully, hit me viscerally. I found myself going through the game over and over.”

By Abeni Jones| March 31, 2018 | 2 Comments
Geekery

6 Video Games For Springtime’s Short Attention Spans

Hi hello and welcome to springtime, when the weather has no predictable pattern and neither does my attention span. Here are some games I’ve picked up for five minutes or thirty minutes or maybe even an entire hour at a time lately.

By dufrau| March 29, 2018 | 8 Comments
Geekery

“Butterfly Soup” and “GENDERWRECKED” Are the Queer Indie Games You’re Looking For

These days, I constantly crave queer ass stories about queer ass characters. Luckily for us all, there are some incredible indie game creators who are here to give the people what we want: gays!

By Jenna| March 15, 2018 | 9 Comments
Geekery

“Lost Wage Rampage” Is Your Morning Coffee Spite Play, Highly Recommend

Friedhoff games always give players a space to vent rage without real-world consequences; Lost Wage Rampage is no exception, and whoo boy, do we got a lot of rage.

By A.E. Osworth| March 12, 2018 | 5 Comments
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