Video Games

Going through the hormonal war that was puberty, I wanted to be somewhere, and someone, far, far away. Through games, I could do just that.

No person’s game experience or opinion will be the same, but I’d feel a lot better about disliking a game I paid $5 for versus one that I paid $60 for.

Even in depicting a monogender alien species, the game still illustrates characteristics catering to the real-world societally-imposed gender binary.

I played so often that I began dreaming in Overwatch matches. My muscle memory became more accustomed to a game’s controls than to other aspects of my life.

Apart from taking positive steps for self-care like going to see a psychiatrist at Tang, I needed to get away, yet stay in the present. I needed a break. Naturally, I turned to playing a video game.

Dragon Age’s Morrigan had given me role-playing experience where I was a woman interested in another woman, and I couldn’t do jack about it.

I was holding off the enemy team and healing allies as the character Mercy when a bullet from the Widowmaker’s sniper rifle flew past me. My blood ran cold.

I was on my way towards New California when some men grabbed me, stole the package from my bag and shot me point blank on top of a newly dug grave.

Ubisoft revealed further developments in the worlds of “Far Cry” and “Assassin’s Creed,” alongside a host of other projects such as “Transference,” with new playable missions and demos.