Author: Astrid Johnson

Astrid is a games journalist living in Bournemouth. She's the Editor-in-chief of Indie Haven, co-host of the Gameographers and the Real Heroes podcasts, and has freelance pieces published on Waypoint.

Soundbyte: Why sex games are important and what makes a good one

Soundbyte is back, and a lot sooner than it took for us to get from episode one to episode two! In this one, we’re talking about sexy, sexy sex games, why they’re interesting, what the rest of the industry could (and should) learn from them, and the queer erasure that comes along with blacklisting these sexy things from storefronts and streaming websites like Twitch. You can listen to it in the embed above, and check out the post on RPS here!

The 14 Pokemon I’d most like to fuck

Last week, I sent a pitch to Eurogamer addressing Features and Reviews Editor Martin Robinson’s statement that he’d “get behind” a list feature titled “14 Pokémon I’d like to fuck.” While he did describe it to me as “probably the best pitch email I’ve ever had,” he lamented that Eurogamer might not be the right publication for it. A brief Twitter exchange with Kirk ‘McKirk’ McKeand, however, led me to believe that its rightful home might, in fact, be VG247. It turns out that was true. You can read it here!

Soundbyte: The controllers bringing games to those with disabilities

Here’s episode 2 of Soundbyte, at last! In this ep, we take a look at the world of gaming accessibility. You can check it out here on Rock Paper Shotgun!

Catherine Classic Review

Catherine Classic is the PC port of Atlus’s bad-romance-action-puzzle-platformer that many have been waiting for. Here‘s my review for it, where I talk about what I like in the game, as well as some of it’s more… troubling elements, for Rock Paper Shotgun!