February 2012
8 posts
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GamesNetwork Must Be Destroyed
The email list known as GamesNetwork is the primary discussion list for games research in the English language. It must also now be abandoned and destroyed. It only has one good purpose - It collects CFPs, which are benign. Aside from that, it then has two major forms of conversation.
1) The bibliography search.
A tourist will emerge with a singularly woolly topic and ask that the collective...
January 2012
23 posts
Fuck Ron Paul
This is the famous PaulBomb, making the rounds.
Ron Paul policies:
Ron Paul wants to define life as starting at conception, build a fence along the US-Mexico border, prevent the Supreme Court from hearing cases on the Establishment Clause or the right to privacy, permitting the return of sodomy laws and the like (a bill which he has repeatedly re-introduced), pull out of the UN, disband...
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The Orthodoxy Within Game Studies
The game studies instinct to magically and imperially overrule game design needs and realities is facing more and more resistance. One thing that’s emerged in the last few years is a focus on how systems of all kinds produce meaning. It remains a positive development because game studies has travelled a long way without paying systems much respect. It might seem staid sometimes because it...
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Thoughts on Play Time (1967)
Some thoughts triggered about Play Time by a recent article on videogames by Miguel Sicart. I won’t be responding to the article’s main points but I wanted to touch on its reading of this important film. One quote from Sicart:
The actors appear, following straight lines, turning with sharp 90 degrees angles, respecting what the architecture tells them to do. Slowly, though, things...
December 2011
32 posts
