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Guilded

By Garrison | Published: March 11, 2009
Last month, I finally joined a guild in World of War­craft: Bound by Blood. Actu­ally, that’s not quite it: ßøuñ∂ ߥ ßløø∂. Guilds are like that. But in this case, typo­graph­i­cal idio­syn­crasies aside, it’s been a reward­ing adven­ture so far, and I’ve learned a lot from it. Take, for instance, the char­ac­ter [...]
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Machinima, Done Well

By Garrison | Published: January 10, 2009
I have a feel­ing that most machin­ima is watched the way we watch a first piano recital, or a mid­dle school pro­duc­tion of Annie Get Your Gun When the Mac­in­tosh com­puter intro­duced desk­top pub­lish­ing (DTP) to the world in the eight­ies, one wag observed that “Now every­one can cre­ate bad design.” While we fre­quently applaud tools and tech­nolo­gies [...]
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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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