Pride Month – Phenixx Gaming

Celebrate Pride Month with the Queer Games Bundle 2023

Alexx Aplin — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 15:00:49 +0000

For the past few years, Itch.io has been putting together charity bundles to benefit charity causes. They’ve raised money for reproductive health causes, causes related to the war in Ukraine, and for racial justice and equality. In addition, this is the third year that Itch.io is spending Pride Month raising money to benefit the queer game development community. The Queer Games Bundle is a…

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Season of Pride 2022 Celebrates Diversity and Pride this July

Alexx Aplin — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:00:17 +0000

For the last few years, we’ve covered publisher and developer Midboss’ “Season of Pride” event. Instead of hosting it during June, which is usually considered to be Pride Month, they often opt to focus their attention on July, giving the “Season of Pride” its own moment as it were. Personally, I like their message, that Pride is something to celebrate even outside of Pride Month. Regardless…

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Male Characters Need More Sexy Cosmetics

Alexx Aplin — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 19:00:49 +0000

Cosmetics are everywhere in video games now. Extra skins, costumes, clothing, and other types of cosmetics enable you to customize characters in your favorite games. However, I think we can all agree that cosmetics for male characters tend to be pretty basic. In honor of June being Pride Month, I’m gonna speak for the gays, non-binary pals, and straight ladies out there and just say it.

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Third Annual Season of Pride Event Announced

Alexx Aplin — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 16:00:43 +0000

Pride Month is almost over, and I haven’t done nearly the amount of coverage I might like. However, last year we covered the Summer of Pride event thrown by Midboss, and we are now aware of a third annual event. This year, the Season of Pride 2021 event will be hosted on the Midboss Twitch Channel for the entire month of July. Because of the Steam Summer Sale (presumably), they actually did a…

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Queer Games Bundle Offers 200+ Games

Keiran McEwen — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 20:00:13 +0000

It’s that time of year again where companies fling themselves in front of the gays with all the ferocity of someone disinterestedly picking lettuce out of a plain cheeseburger. It’s June, so everyone seems to be really concerned about gender pronouns being correct and pretending they don’t care about the LGBTQ+ community any other time of the year. Everyone is doing their little bit to try and be…

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Tell Me Why is Free This Month

Alexx Aplin — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 16:00:44 +0000

Happy Pride Month Y’all! It is a tradition here at Phenixx Gaming that despite June also being the gamer’s Christmas (E3 month), we also celebrate Pride Month properly. Now today we’re starting it off with a bit of news that will please a lot of you. The full experience of Tell Me Why is available for free on PC and Xbox for the entire month of June. Tell Me Why tells the story of twins Alyson…

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A History Of Trans Characters In Video Games: Part Three

Dmitry King — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 18:00:54 +0000

This article series contains a blanket content warning for transphobia and transphobic language. Welcome back to the third and final part of A History Of Trans Characters In Video Games. Check out Part One and Part Two if you haven’t already, and then come back here to buckle down for the most recent years of trans characters in video games. We’re coming into the best years yet for trans…

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Pride Month: LGBT People in Gaming

Alexx Aplin — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 20:00:00 +0000

As a gay man, the gaming industry is a place where for a very long time, I didn’t really see anyone like me. I didn’t see developers who were in the LGBT community. I didn’t see content creators in the LGBT community and I definitely didn’t see many games with LGBT characters in them. This article isn’t quite about the games though, it’s about people. Today I’ll be focusing primarily on people in…

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A History Of Trans Characters In Video Games: Part Two

Dmitry King — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 18:00:10 +0000

This article series comes with a blanket content warning for transphobia and transphobic language. Welcome back to part two of The History of Trans People in Video Games! I suggest catching up on Part One if you haven’t already, but as I said there, the depiction of trans characters in the gaming industry is a complex one. It has been a rocky road and continues to be one…

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A History Of Trans Characters In Video Games: Part One

Dmitry King — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 18:00:51 +0000

The history of trans people in video games is a long one, and a complicated one. The community has been subject to depictions of all kinds: good, bad, well-intentioned but misguided, the butt of a joke, and more. Trans people are often villains, or are almost always side characters. Sometimes we’re the love interest, which is nice. It is rare that we are the playable hero. It’s hard to examine…

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