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Getting Shot: A 103-Second Retrospective

By Garrison | Published: August 31, 2010
It’s Gun Week over at Kotaku (seri­ously, though, when are guns not an issue on a video gam­ing site?), and Mike Fahey has com­piled a 102-second his­tor­i­cal overview of 18 years’ worth of get­ting shot, First Per­son Shooter-style. The video is inter­est­ing, and some­what depress­ing: The cal­cu­lus of pro­jec­tile weaponry meshes so well with the [...]
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University of Florida Honors Courses — Fall 2010

By Garrison | Published: August 31, 2010
From the Uni­ver­sity of Terra Florida Uni­ver­sity of Florida Hon­ors Courses — Fall 2010 catalog. “21st Cen­tury Skills in Star­craft is an 8 week entirely online course that uses the pop­u­lar real time strat­egy (RTS) game Star­craft to teach valu­able 21st Cen­tury Skills through a hands-on approach. With soci­ety becom­ing increas­ingly technology-based and fast-paced, it [...]
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NY School To Pursue Ludic Curriculum

By Garrison | Published: September 28, 2009
Intrigu­ing news from from Pop­sci (The weblog of Pop­u­lar Sci­ence mag­a­zine): A school in New York City has announced that its emerg­ing cur­ricu­lum will be based entirely around games and play. The Manhattan-based NY City pub­lic school, called Quest to Learn (Q2L), boasts finan­cial sup­port from Par­sons School of Design, MacArthur, Gates, and Intel, among others. [...]
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The Metaverse (Some Assembly Required)

By Garrison | Published: March 9, 2009
D. Linda Gar­cia and I, together with Hanan Gazit at H.I.T., will serve as guest edi­tors for a forth­com­ing spe­cial issue of the Jour­nal of Vir­tual Worlds Research. In addi­tion to reg­u­lar papers, the spe­cial issue will fea­ture some of the papers pre­sented at the SLACTIONS con­fer­ence in late September. The meta­verse is emerg­ing, through [...]
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On Newsgames’ Newsworthiness

By Garrison | Published: January 8, 2009
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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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