Category Archives: Video Games

On Robert Yang’s Radiator 2: Handle With Care

Posted on 08/16/2012 by kunzelman

You can get all of Robert Yang’s Radiator games here. I finally got around to playing the first two entries into the Radiator series of games made by Robert Yang (and maybe some other people?). The first two, “Polaris” and … Continue reading →

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On Experience-Taking

Posted on 08/15/2012 by kunzelman

This is a quick bit of writing about “experience-taking,” which is a term created by Lisa Libby and Geoff Kaufman, from Ohio State and Dartmouth, respectively. If you don’t care about what I have to say about it, just read … Continue reading →

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Mitu Khandaker Talks About Games

Posted on 08/14/2012 by kunzelman

So this happened like two months ago. I missed the initial broadcast and sometime between broadcast and podcasting, I forgot to actually listen to Mitu talk about video games. However, this past weekend I finally sat down to listen. The podcast … Continue reading →

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Laure and the Sacred (1)

Posted on 08/10/2012 by kunzelman

I have been reading the collected writings of Laure, aka Colette Peignot, over the past couple days. I’m not very far into the book, but there are already a few things that I want to note for the future. The … Continue reading →

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Sega Shock Collar

Posted on 08/03/2012 by kunzelman

Today is Friday. I am busy trying to make something really cool happen. This is a video where two people hook a shock collar up to a Sega Genesis. The most interesting part of it is how quickly they become … Continue reading →

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Praising Difficulty, Opacity, and the Incomprehensible

Posted on 08/02/2012 by kunzelman

Ben Abraham does a reading of the Alt Lit movement and points out some interesting things about it (and some problems). I think he hits on something really amazing, though, when he writes . . . what would it mean truly for a … Continue reading →

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A Battle Before the Beginning of Time

Posted on 08/01/2012 by kunzelman

I am fascinated with the idea of the “battle before time” in video games. A conflict that happened before the player existed, independent of the game world’s existence as only there for player consumption. I, like a few others (most especially … Continue reading →

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Boris Groys, Ernst Jünger, Agent 47: Identity and the Hitman Franchise

Posted on 07/27/2012 by kunzelman

I recently finished Boris Groys’ Introduction to Antiphilosophy, which I enjoyed quite a bit. It is a collection of essays that Groys wrote at various times; as he says in the introduction, they were not written to be read together, but … Continue reading →

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Half Life 2’s Cut Content

Posted on 07/25/2012 by kunzelman

I’ve been phoning the content in for a couple days, and I apologize for that–yesterday I was hiking and today I spent most of my time watching The Dark Knight Rises (expect opinions on this tomorrow). Anyway, this is a short … Continue reading →

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Pat Holleman Writes on Authorial Intent

Posted on 07/24/2012 by kunzelman

I don’t have a whole lot to write today–I had some big hang-outs with a friend that started at 9am, which hasn’t left me a whole lot of time to do internetting and the kind of hard-hitting journalism/complaining that you … Continue reading →

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