Simone de Rochefort, Senior Video Producer at popular gaming website Polygon, is a certified Horse Girl. Needless to say, I was delighted when she recently asked me to appear in a video about video game horses and why so many games get them wrong.
Read MoreA few weeks ago, popular gaming website Polygon asked me to write a contribution to their “Horse Girl Canon”: A series of articles for and by horse lovers, about all sorts of horsey content across multiple media.
Read MorePolygon writer Simone de Rochefort and Horse Historian Professor Donna Landry take a close look at the horses in the Assassin’s Creed games: The recent titles Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla all use the same horse model regardless of their vastly different settings and cultural context.
Read MoreEsports and Gaming writer Cass Marshall has written a wonderful story for gaming news website Polygon about her mount in Red Dead Online.
Where other players prefer horses with impressive speed or acceleration stats, her horse Hayseed is a big, slow Belgian Draft — one of several heavy horse breeds in the game.
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