Weekly News!

It's Memorial Day! I have a puppy in my lap and I'm about to leave to get fabric for Anime Expo!

I wanted to cover the news for last week very quickly!

Xbox One has announced External Hard Drive Capability! If you have been grumpy about the small memory space on the Xbox One - be soothed by this news. Skype is now able to be used in tandem with playing a game. Now you can chat with your friends while you game together. BIG NEWS - the Kinect is being SOLD SEPARATELY! If you're paranoid about cameras, hate the voice control, or just don't use the Kinect enough to want to pay $100 for it, you're in luck.

PS4 is now offering beta for the PlayStation Now! This is the system Sony is going to be using so you can rent games on your console and try them out. Another big news story for Play Station is Far Cry 4 was leaked! Only plot overview was released but a lot of people are getting very excited about it.

PS Vita now has Child of Light coming on June 1st! Check this great JRPG out and take it with you!

Wii & DS no longer have wifi capability. Here is the link so you can check out the games that will be affected.

Nintendo also announced their Nintendo Figurines! Looks like they might be something along the lines of Skylanders but we probably won't know until E3 which is in two weeks!!

New Games Announced:
Batman Arkham Knight
Evolve
Minecraft (on new consoles)
The Wolf Among Us Ep. 4
Metro Redux
Arena Of Fate
Hunger
Half Life 3 (unofficial - maybe just another fake leak)
Left 4 Dead 3 (unofficial as well)
Maplestory 2
Halo 5: Guardians

Looking Forward to: 
Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor
The Witcher 3
Fable Legends
Last of Us Remastered
Pokemon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire

New Releases: 
Wolfenstein - The New Order
Transistor
Drakengard 3

My youtube channel will have a video up tomorrow recapping this and look out for my post this week!

Thank you!

YouTube News!

Hello Everyone! 

This week I will be posting twice! My first entry for the week is going to be about some upcoming stuff I wanted to mention that I'm really excited about! 

I have my own YouTube channel now! 

You can find me at Youtube.com/SuperNonsenseGaming or on twitter @NonsenseGamers

So, the layout of this channel is pretty simple. I have my show that will air on Tuesdays called "Whatcha' Gaming?" where I get people on to talk about what games they're playing, what games they want to play, and what their favorite games are! It's going to be a conversational video with many different types of people in and out of the industry. 

Our second video of the week will air on Friday's and it will be a weekly recap of video game news. We will be compiling information all week and then making a quick video about everything that's coming up so that you can keep up with the myriad of things that are going on. 

Over time we want to expand and do some more things with it and get more people involved but for now it is just me and my good friend Steven working on it. He's an indie video game developer and both of us have a lot of interest and investment in video games. 

You can check out our FIRST video this Tuesday ( 5/20/14 - time to be announced on our Twitter) and see if you like it! Please check us out and it would really mean a lot. If you are going to follow us on Twitter be sure to tweet at me! I'm super social so I always love connecting with new people. And maybe we can get you on for an interview!! 

Anyways, look out for my post this week! I am going to be talking about KRIS from Pokemon Crystal as the first part of my Fem Characters series. 

Thanks for reading and don't forget to follow me on Twitter @katieishh and subscribe to my blog.

See you soon!

Attention Female Gamers!

Hello everyone!

This week I wanted to talk about something important to me. Lately I've been hearing a lot about women in the gaming industry and women gamers and I want to settle some issues I have. This is overall going to be a vent post with constructive ideas about what we can do as a community. If you're interesting in having a conversation about it - feel free to leave a polite and rational comment below. If you just want to hate on me and everything I am saying you will be ignored because you are proving my point. 

I will note: everything I say has obvious exceptions so don't think everything I'm saying applies to every situation.

First of all, as a women who plays video games, I think that this whole issue is pretty ridiculous. Women do not have weaker mental abilities than men and it's important to know that. Sure, more men are prominent players in video games but I don't think that's necessarily because they aren't as good or smart enough. I think it's because women get a lot of crap and there aren't many girls as serious about gaming as guys. That's fine! But why is it okay to attack girls because of that? I can see why girls stray away from video games - it's because they don't get a warm welcome when they try them.

Next, I think that women get a lot of stereotypes thrown at them as "girl gamers". I have no issue with this term at all. I don't personally refer to myself this way (I don't like to refer to myself as anything...) but there's nothing wrong with it if you do. I do think that sometimes this is a prime example of giving in to a stereotype. I've played COD online.. I know what happens as soon as you speak. Those idiot 14-yr-old boys go, "KILL THE GIRL" and then laugh at you and tell you that you suck at video games when you don't make a single kill because you were being slaughtered the entire game. I'm just trying to enjoy a game! Why is it okay to ruin my experience with the game? COD has a huge male market because of that situation. 

I have a short story about a situation I was in a couple of days ago with a guy. I was at Starbucks. My girl friend and I are standing waiting for our drinks and playing LoZ on our LoZ 3DS's when a guy from across the room comes up to us and asks, "What are the 3 pieces of the triforce?" So I tell him, feeling a little affronted not only by his quiz that was obviously an attempt to embarrass us, but by the fact that a dude walked up to us in a store in a demanding sort of way. (Caveat: I wasn't afraid of him, it was just a little weird.) He then goes on to say that he has never played Legend of Zelda but he wanted to make sure we knew what it was because one time he ran into a girl with a LoZ shirt on and he asked her about it and she said she only bought the shirt because it looked cool. Which, I find annoying as well but how does that make it okay for him to bombard every girl to make sure they're really gamers? 

So I simply said, "Well I guess I should be the one asking you random questions about the game then, huh? Seeing as I've played all of them." I gave no attitude and suffered a smile at him so that he knew I was messing with him. 

He kinda stuttered a moment and said, "Well I know everything about pokemon. That's the only game I play." 

Now, you know that I play pokemon as well already, so of course I told him that, as well as mentioned that he should branch out to other games as well. He quickly changed the subject and I quickly ended the conversation. 

It's obvious why I'm annoyed by this, right? Because a guy who has never touched a LoZ game insists on bothering girls with trivia to prove that they don't know anything about gaming. It's insulting that I have to prove myself. 

So here's my ultimate advice, do what you do because you love it, not because you're trying to prove something. Be proud of what you love and don't be embarrassed about the fact that you didn't enjoy Half Life 2. There's nothing wrong with being true to yourself and don't let the metaphorical and actual man get you down. Ladies! Be strong! Be brave! But be yourself.