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Monthly Archives: January 2009
On Newsgames’ Newsworthiness
In a recent post over at the Georgia Tech Journalism & Games Project (Raid Gaza! Editorial Games and Timeliness), the indefatigable Ian Bogost holds up a recent editorial game, Raid Gaza!, as exemplary of the kind of critical work games (“newsgames”) can do for journalism.
Like editorial games should, [Raid Gaza] takes a strong position. But [...]
Unintended Nostalgia Delays Revolution
Winston Churchill once observed that first, we make our buildings, and then they make us. By which he meant, quite sensibly, that the spaces in which we live and work condition and determine our behavior.
With Mario CarBarn, our desire was to reappropriate the space, if tentatively, on behalf of the ludic.
The Situationists were famous [...]
Badiou and Theatre
In The Handbook of Inaesthetics, Alain Badiou assembles ten “Theses on Theater,” which, at first glance anyway, offer game studies some compelling parallels. Indeed, he begins generously, furnishing us with the very link that we require. The purpose of the theses? “To establish—as we must for every art—that theater thinks” (72; emphasis mine).
In [...]
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Be All You Can Be (For A Quarter, To Start)
Today’s New York Times features a brief article on video games and U.S. Army recruiting efforts in a Philadelphia mall.
The facility, which opened in August, is the first of its kind. It replaces five smaller recruitment stations in the Philadelphia area, at about the same annual operating cost, not counting the initial expenses, said Maj. Larry [...]
The News from Nielsen
For December, among American gamers who play Warcraft, Nielsen finds it played on average over 11 hours / week.
Years ago, I was a “Nielsen family.” The unwieldy set-top box, hard-wired into the TV and the Cable Box, was a mysterious, exciting presence, and leant an air of authority to my cable TV watching choices (however [...]
Machinima, Done Well