Gamer Girl Spotlight: Ana Valens – Destructoid

Get to know your new favorite journalist Journalist, author, and video game designer Ana Valens is someone I very much admire. Valens writes about things other people are too scared of getting wrong. But whether it’s covering ‘hypnoslut’ gamers as a NSFW columnist at The Daily Dot, going long on Tumblr porn for her novel, or offering her perspective as managing editor of We Got This Covered, Valens dissects her subjects with enough close care to serve a pufferfish. After meeting at a Brooklyn bar, we talked about gaming and how women writers exist in it. Tell me a little bit about you and how you first got into gaming. How has your relationship to the video game community changed since then? Hi! I’m a games journalist and critic and an adult game developer. I currently serve as managing editor for the geekdom site We Got This Covered, which was recently acquired by Gamurs. My relationship to the video game community has definitely changed over the years. I’ve played video games since I was a kid, and I used to read Kotaku and Joystiq (RIP) daily as a teen. I definitely started out as a bit of a gamer, then…
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