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Hey, did anyone hear that a game called Bayonetta came out? A couple people wrote about it. I don't really want to edge in on Critical Distance's Critical Compilations, though, so I'm going to try and break some of them down into component parts about things like female sexuality and empowerment (which is the bulk of it) and about other issues in the game that showed up in other places this month, such as how games handle religion (yes, that topic is still kicking).



It seems… Continue

Here's the news for last week. Lookout tomorrow for a rundown of major discussion topics in January!



Duncan Fyfe is back writing games-related fiction at Life Starts Here.



The Game Design Aspect Of The Month for February is "emotive games."



Rock, Paper Shotgun is opening a new forum for people to… Continue

Please pardon our dust as we work on some new ideas for Context Clues at the VGHVI. If you're looking to keep up with what's going down, check out our Google waves. I've been careful to keep everything tagged as VGHVI and the Context Clues waves tagged as "Context Clues" as well.



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News and Events

Border House is… Continue

Context Clues took a rare chance at some time off, so this post will cover main themes of the previous three weeks instead of the usual one-week spread. If you want to read more of what was going on over the break, check out the Context Clues and other VGHVI waves on Google Wave. We’ve got a dedicated wave to discussing and tracking posts on Dragon Age that shouldn’t be missed! (And if you’re still looking for a Wave invite, let us know!) If you can't access Wave for other reasons, there's… Continue

Context Clues only explicitly mentions topics that contributed to or generated a fair amount of conversation the previous week. If you want more (and I can't blame you there), you can actually subscribe to our shared clippings via RSS. Those clips are also searchable and mostly indexed with tags as appropriate.

Story Time!

Brian Taylor (Bitmob) goes back to the well with talk of… Continue