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		<title>How Can Romance Storylines Be More Engaging?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Crossposted at The Border House.
This post contains some major end-game spoilers for Dragon Age as well as some minor character-related spoilers for Mass Effect 2.
Between Dragon Age and Mass Effect 2, there&#8217;s been a lot of talk about romance storylines in games over the past several months.  They are still something of a novelty, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whilenotfinished.theirisnetwork.org/2010/03/08/romance-storylines-engaging/</link>
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		<title>What Makes a Game Epic?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Contains minor spoilers for Dragon Age: Origins and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
A great many games, particularly in the fantasy and sci-fi genres, seek to be epic in scope, or evoke a feeling of epicness.  It&#8217;s an elusive quality because simply making a game very long or very large isn&#8217;t usually sufficient, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whilenotfinished.theirisnetwork.org/2010/02/03/game-epic/</link>
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		<title>Dragon Age: Origins:  Character Babble (UPDATED)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A (ridiculously self-indulgent!) summary of my first character&#8217;s journey up until the Alienage section in Denerim before the Landsmeet.  Spoilers up until then, and please don&#8217;t comment with spoilers for the rest of the game!
Here&#8217;s the character page (female Elf mage).  I am annoyed the picture hasn&#8217;t uploaded&#8230; unless that is something I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whilenotfinished.theirisnetwork.org/2010/01/12/idragon-age-originsi-character-babble-prelandsmeet/</link>
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		<title>Is This Only Entertainment?: My Click Moment and Why I Write About Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most common responses to feminist critiques&#8211;or indeed any sort of critiques&#8211;of games is, &#8220;It&#8217;s just a game!&#8221; Feminist critiques of games outside of specifically feminist blogs are often met with not just outright hostility in many cases, but an attitude of befuddlement; gamers wonder what is the point of writing about video [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whilenotfinished.theirisnetwork.org/2010/01/04/entertainment-click-moment-write-games/</link>
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		<title>Wrex and the Art of the Privilege Check</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted at The Border House.
I&#8217;ve written a lot about Mass Effect previously, including a rather long criticism of some of the subtle (and not-so-subtle) gender bias at play in the universe BioWare has created.  For my last post, I&#8217;d like to take a look at the character of Wrex and how his situation as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whilenotfinished.theirisnetwork.org/2009/12/02/wrex-art-privilege-check/</link>
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		<title>The Border House has launched!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m proud to announce that a new feminism and gaming blog, The Border House has launched, and is already buzzing with posts and discussion.
Tami came up with the initial idea of a group feminist gaming blog, and she collaborated with myself and Brinstar to bring it to life.  We reached out to people from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whilenotfinished.theirisnetwork.org/2009/11/29/border-house-launched/</link>
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		<title>And I Didn&#8217;t Even Use Tarot Cards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember way back when, when I did that little rant for a Round Table about difficulty? And how I was playing Assassin&#8217;s Creed and the original Uncharted at that time, and made the following prediction?:
Two games I’m currently playing are Assassin’s Creed and Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. I’m not particularly far into either, but even so, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whilenotfinished.theirisnetwork.org/2009/11/05/tarot-cards/</link>
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		<title>Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My FIRST REVIEW EVAR! is up at GameCritics.com, and it&#8217;s about Uncharted 2: Among Thieves.  Here&#8217;s an excerpt relevant to this blog:
Characters from the first game make a comeback—Sully makes a cameo and Elena is back as a major player—and newcomers Harry Flynn and Chloe Frazer, the latter whom adds a touch of much-needed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whilenotfinished.theirisnetwork.org/2009/11/05/uncharted-2-thieves-review/</link>
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		<title>Mixed Reactions: Even Progress Comes With Sexist Dynamics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s Context Clues went up today and it gave me quite a bit of food for thought.  Although it (rightfully) focuses on both Modern Warfare 2 controversies from last week, there are a few articles about gender and sexism in games.  The thing is, three out of the four posts were written [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whilenotfinished.theirisnetwork.org/2009/11/03/mixed-reactions-progress-sexist-dynamics/</link>
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		<title>Modern Warfare 2 Ad Features, Condones Homophobic Slurs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(UPDATE: The ad has been removed; apparently IW didn&#8217;t notice the acronym, which I kind of think is bullshit, but I&#8217;m glad action was taken.)
Via Kotaku, a new ad went up on developer Infinity Ward&#8217;s YouTube page for the upcoming Modern Warfare 2.  The ad features an in-game model of Cole Hamels from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whilenotfinished.theirisnetwork.org/2009/10/30/modern-warfare-2-ad-features-condones-homophobic-slurs/</link>
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