Video games: news, theory & analysis.
Video games: news, theory & analysis.
It's done. Today I received the e-mail from Tanya Krzywink saying it's a go. I'm looking fwd to the first panel this fall. Official press release after the jump. — read on
At the G4C festival last week I realized how many people we have here in NYC that do one thing or another with games. So, just now I sent off a proposal to start up DiGRA NY. — read on
Reporting live from 12th street, I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that serious games and I can date for a while, but I don't see a long term relationship. — read on
As part of my preparation for the imminent Games for Change festival here in NYC, I've compiled a list of serious games. — read on
Some time ago I saw a lecture by Steven B. Johnson: one of the people I love to quote in my whole video game dissertation thing. I'm particularly keen of his notion of "data making sense of other data." I had hoped to hear more about the future, but ended up with a mouthful of Web one point oh. — read on
So it looks like I'll be headed to Barcelona this November. My proposal for ECREA 2008 got accepted and now I will go shoulder-to-shoulder with communication "specialists studying the role of communications and media in society, with a special emphasis on European challenges." C'est le w00t, bonhomme. — read on
I'm all for video games graduating into some "serious" cultural form, just like comic books and bubblegum. But I'm not convinced that a poorly organized screamfest is going to convince anyone of video games' merits.
— read onWell, it seems the cat is out of the bag. Officially it'll be announced at GDC'08, but I suppose Dean Takahashi couldn't wait. — read on
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