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Super Columbine Massacre RPG!: Can a Historic Event Be Examined Seriously By a Video Game?

by G. Christopher Williams

[20.Sep.07] :. Unlike more passive forms of art that largely require the participation of viewers as interpreters and observers of their subject matter, video games raise thorny questions about "viewing" content, since the action of a player is more directly participatory for the audience.

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