Video games: news, theory & analysis.
Video games: news, theory & analysis.
I was very excited to open that slick little box on Christmas morning. Call me a Mac fanboy. Go ahead, I'll wait. Love the features. Better than BlackBerry. All that. But whatever goes for 'games' on the iPhone is a disaster. — read on
A central idea in my dissertation is the notion that games relate to reality. Chess is a modeled version of two fighting armies, and Call of Duty is a first-hand experience of being a solider. The bits and pieces that make up a game are not accidental, but a game draws on real-life for both inspiration and example. But sometimes there's a clear absence of a boundary, as in the following example. — read on
After meeting with David Cole last week at the NY Games Conference, we agreed to refresh three of DFC's current reports. Codenames: MMOG, MMOG-lite and Casual Games. — read on
As of this minute conference, registrations are underway. Earlier I sent out the press release to everyone and his mother and am now slowly chewing my way through all the replies. — read on
It seems that setting up DiGRA NY came very soon after a report made its way around the usual news outlets. I had no idea. — 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
Woo hoo! Waffler enters the 2.0 era of delectably clickable buttons and zippy pop-ups menus. — read on
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Insert your favorite French philosopher's musings on co-existing meta-realities here. Then stop bein...
The cure for the common GTA clone. Heck, the Hulk puts GTA to shame. One enjoys roaming one's h...
After this illustrious example of hilarity, I've now also located a Dutch sesame street remix, web 2...
My brother, who is currently dodging mudslides in Vietnam with his family in law, recently sent me t...
Half of the work in getting a Ph.D is purely logistical. You are looking at my attempt to create a degree of coherence in the bitstorm that finds its way onto my screen every day.
