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 [...] Read more – ‘GMU “Overwhelmed” by Interest in Game Design BFA’.
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 [...] Read more – ‘Against the Rhetoric of Cosmopolitanism’.
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 [...] Read more – ‘The News from Nielsen’.
