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GMU “Overwhelmed” by Interest in Game Design BFA

By Garrison | Published: April 30, 2010
Via Game­Pol­i­tics, news that the new-ish Game Design BFA offered at GMU has met with“over­whelm­ing” stu­dent response. A story in the Fair­fax Times reports that the school has already enrolled around 200 stu­dents into the pro­gram, best­ing an inter­nal goal of hav­ing 110 stu­dents in the pro­gram by 2012. As Scott M. Mar­tin, Assis­tant Dean [...]
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Against the Rhetoric of Cosmopolitanism

By Garrison | Published: February 17, 2009
At the Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion for the Advance­ment of Sci­ence (AAAS) in Chicago, a behav­ioral sci­ences pro­fes­sor from North­west­ern Uni­ver­sity has called into ques­tion the ide­al­ism of much of our rhetoric on the poten­tial diver­sity of human net­works in MMORPGs. “Social Dri­vers for Orga­niz­ing Net­works in Com­mu­ni­ties” appeared as part of a panel called “Ana­lyz­ing Vir­tual [...]
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The News from Nielsen

By Garrison | Published: January 4, 2009
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 [...]
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