Last week at E3 I made a beeline to the Duke Nukem Forever booth. I wanted to get a chance to see the game and maybe talk to the developers about their thought processes when making the game. Like, when you have a fifteen year development cycle that sees some major leaps in bounds for [...]

It’s hard to be a feminist and like Lara Croft. If there was ever a woman who got by on her looks it’s the British “anthropologist.” Yeah, I employed quotation marks. Does Croft even have a degree? Checking Wikipedia. Apparently yes. Well um, good for you Ms. Croft! Way to be educated! But those breasts! [...]

This week I watched a guy beat people with a floppy dildo shaped bat. Then he threw on some cartoonishly oversized fists and went around punching people, only when the giant fists met flesh it ended with people exploding. After that he hopped in a truck that vacuumed people up and then shot them out [...]

We love Catwoman here at FemPop. She’s a kick ass lady in nearly every incarnation. When I showed up at E3 I saw this looming over me. I got into the line for the demo and noticed this over people’s heads. Then I noticed Harley Quinn looking longingly into Batman’s baby blues. I sighed and struck [...]

Metroid Other M or whatever it was called was supposed to be amazing. We were finally going to get to know the Samus in the suit and she’d be made of rainbows, kittens and laser guns. Then the game came out and it was AWFUL and she was a whiney anime protagonist. So now I’m [...]

Sex makes people stupid. But while we would do anything to get it, there are some things that, in the words of Meatloaf, fall into the catagory of “I won’t do that”. OR AT LEAST WE SHOULDN’T. There’s some evil malware going around on the old facebook being all “Look, it is sexy videos of Rihanna and Hayden [...]

I was a little irritated with the game. It was noir and I’ve been done with noir since I was twenty. The misanthropy and pessimism that pervade the genre aren’t for me anymore. But then I had a shootout on the Babylon plaza set from Intolerance and it was hard as hell to dislike the [...]

David O. Russell is an asshole. We all know this. We’ve seen the videos and heard the anecdotes. He’s also a fantastic director with oodles of talent. But I’ll admit I was nervous as hell when he came onto the adaptation of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. His pitch for the adaptation was so wildly different then [...]

Remember when the big news about a video game had something to do with sweet graphics or a new game engine? Now it’s all about whose boneable. I blame Mass Effect. Bioware opened itself a giant can of worms when it released the first game with three, count them three! romantic interests. In the second [...]

If I had to pen a list of the best video game franchises ever in the history of video games (all forty years of history ooooo) the Mass Effect series would sit high up on the list. The fusion of RPG and tactical shooter has led me to replay the first game on four separate [...]