Posts Categorized "Video Games and the Bechdel Test"
by John Joe Horan
Background: Ms. Pac-Man is a 1982 maze arcade game developed by General Computer Corporation and published by Midway. It is the sequel to Pac-Man (1980), and the first…
Background: Pac-Man is a maze arcade game developed and released by Namco in 1980. The game quickly became a massive and as of 2016, the franchise has generated…
Background: BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea is a two-part single-player expansion to the first game. It was developed by the same company that created both the base game…
Background: BioShock Infinite is a first-person shooter video game developed by Irrational Games and published by 2K Games. It was released worldwide in 2013. Bioshock Infinite is the…
Background: Resident Evil 3 is a survival horror game developed and published by Capcom that released in April 3rd, 2020. It is a remake of Resident Evil 3:…
Background: Resident Evil 1 was created by Capcom Studio and released in 2002. This game served as a remake to the original title that released in 1996, and…
Background: Lost Legacy released in 2017 and was created by Naughty Dog studios as the final chapter in the Uncharted series. This game is unique in that instead…
Background: Uncharted is was released in 2007 and was created by Naughty Dog Studios. Plot: Nathan Drake is a treasure hunter who is looking for a lost…
Background: Telltales fourth season of the their Walking Dead series released in 2019, and served as the final season of the franchise. Plot: Though the first game’s story…
Background: Telltales The Walking Dead is an interactive series released in 2012 by Telltale Studios. While Telltale is now known for their episodic video games that allow the…
Background: Modern Warfare was released in 2019 by developer Infinity War and publisher Activision as the latest entry to the COD franchise. Though it shares the name and…
Background: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was released in 2007 by Infinity Ward studios for as the 4th main title in the COD franchise. The game was…
Background: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was released in 2015 as the final game in CD Project Red’s Witcher trilogy. Wild Hunt chronologically follows the story of the…
Background: The Witcher is a game that released in 2007 and was created by Polish video game developer CD Project Red. The Witcher game was based off of…
Assassins Creed: Syndicate was released in 2015 by Ubisoft Studios. The game features two protagonists, Jacob and Evie Frye. The characters are brother and sister and feature…
Assassins’ Creed is a stealth based combat game created by Ubisoft studios in 2009. This game features a male protagonist and does not pass the Bechdel test, as…
Gears 5 (Or Gears of War 5) is the 5th game in the series and released on the Xbox in 2019. It centers on a young solider as…
Gears of War is third person shooter created in 2006 by Epic Game Studios for the Xbox 360. It was the first game in what is now a…
The Last of Us Part 2 is a video game that released in 2020 on the Playstation 4 and acts as a sequel to the first game released…
The Last of Us is a video game that was released on the PlayStation 3 in 2013. The game centers around the story of a man named Joel,…