Tag Archives: video games
Playing War
VGChartz (why does that website have such a dumb name) has a great article up where an interviewer asks several people in the armed forces to talk through the drama surrounding Medal of Honor featuring The Taliban as a playable team. The … Continue reading
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Cabinet Interview with Sianne Ngai
This isn’t something substantive, but rather it is a moment where I tell you video game and comic book people that you have to read this interview that Sianne Ngai did with Cabinet last year. Ngai writes on aesthetics in a really … Continue reading
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On Zero-Player Games
Jesper Juul has posted a fascinating article titled “Zero Player Games: Or What We Talk About When We Talk About Players” over at his blogzone. It is a cowritten piece between Juul and Staffan Björk, and I found it interesting for … Continue reading
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Current Times 26
This is one more entry in the Current Times series, which basically means a link dump. Sometimes it happens because I have several things I want to talk about, but I don’t have too much to say about them. Sometimes … Continue reading
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I Am Not Going To Play Diablo 3
Or at least I’m not going to play it for a few months. A little bit about my history with the Diablo franchise: I played the original game for a couple years after launch. Sometimes I would play multiplayer, but more often … Continue reading
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On Writing About New Things
This blog has been less effort post and more content fill over the past couple days, and I am sorry. The process of moving ten thousand books (not that many, but a lot) has left me with precious little mind … Continue reading
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On Thomsen’s “Will Work for Fun”
So the video game world is blowing up a little bit today over Michael Thomsen‘s article for Kill Screen titled “Will Work for Fun.” To start off, I want to say that I agree with 90% of what Thomsen has … Continue reading
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Jita, Burning
I don’t know anything about EVE Online. I hear things, now and again, though. Burn Jita is one of those things that I have heard about. Gamepolitics explains: “Starting last Friday, it was on fire,” CCP software director Erlendur S. … Continue reading
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On Games of Empire
I finished Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter‘s Games of Empire yesterday (then powered through Bogost’s Alien Phenomenology immediately after). The short version of my review is that Games of Empire is a great analysis of the material conditions that make up the system that … Continue reading
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On Plink
Go play Plink. Do it right now. I don’t have a lot of things to say about the game. It is poetry in motion, and when you are playing with a few other people, you can really feel it click. … Continue reading
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