Monthly Archives: December 2008

Warcraft population

By Garrison | Published: December 28, 2008
Accord­ing to a recent press release, Blizzard’s World of War­craft now boasts 11.5 mil­lion sub­scribers world-wide. Sub­scrip­tions and virtual-world pop­u­la­tions are a fre­quent topic of dis­cus­sion in game stud­ies, but the facts are noto­ri­ously hard to come by, since pop­u­la­tion den­sity — often per­ceived as an index of pop­u­lar­ity — is a sell­ing point, and there­fore [...]
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Unwrapping a Warcraft Christmas

By Garrison | Published: December 21, 2008
Con­trary to the over­sim­pli­fied char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of a “magic cir­cle” of bounded, invi­o­lable game activ­ity, gamic activ­ity — and video game-play espe­cially — always unfolds over oth­er­wise rigid bound­aries. Video game-play makes simul­ta­ne­ous and unbri­dled use of mul­ti­ple media, unfurls across imbri­cated (and fre­quently exclu­sive) nar­ra­tives and pro­ce­dural norms, and often chal­lenges the player to [...]
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GameSpot: Shakespeare booked on DS

By Garrison | Published: December 14, 2008
GameSpot: Shake­speare booked on DS “The Times of Lon­don reports today that Nin­tendo has part­nered with pre­em­i­nent book pub­lisher Harper­Collins to bring a slate of lit­er­ary clas­sics to the DS. Labeled The 100 Clas­sic Book Col­lec­tion, the soft­ware will report­edly include works from Shake­speare, Charles Dick­ens, Jane Austen, and the Bronte sis­ters. Details on the title’s inter­face [...]
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