Video games: news, theory & analysis.
Video games: news, theory & analysis.
After I found out that Mary Flanagan, the big kahuna at Tiltfactor Lab, also roams the hallways at Hunter college, I decided to dive into her writing before making contact. So today I read "Locating Play and Politics: Real World Games & Activism." — read on
In the ongoing investigation of how games communicate, I ran across Rex Martin's dissertation. Wowsers. That guy is brilliant. — read on
Well, 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
After the exciting release of the report that I wrote with DFC Intelligence on the game activities of big media companies, Business Week is running a story this week that seems informed by my writing. — read on
I quit. The past several months I haven't even once thought about playing. It was only when I kept noticing these recurrent charges on my credit card that I felt it was time. Thank you, Blizzard, but no thanks. — read on
Today I got word that Computer Games as a Sociocultural Phenomenon is available. Woo hoo. You'll find me right in the front of the book, in between the Introduction and Ian Bogost. Not a bad place to be. — read on
Obviously, if you're going to describe reality with numbers then you inevitably make some assumptions. One such an assumption would be that no one will have more than 2^31 gold. Or, more precisely, "214,748 gold, 36 silver, 48 copper." — read on
After my previous post, detailing numbers that seem to tell some analysts that M$ is "blowing away" the competition but really don't, here's more ammo. Despite the happy times for Xbox in the U.S., the console just isn't doing much in Japan. — read on
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