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Monday, May 13 2013

The Moving Pixels Podcast Explores Minimalism in Video Games

This week, it's minimalism. It's video games. What more can we say?


Monday, July 16 2012

Enter the Posthuman: ‘Alien Phenomenology’

In a world overrun by objects, everything's a 'thing' from another world.


Wednesday, October 19 2011

Self Indulgence or Self Realization?: Sony’s “Michael” Ad

What Sony's ad might recognize about games is my own self indulgence, as constantly trying on the roles of heroes is a pretty narcissistic pastime.


Monday, September 19 2011

The Moving Pixels Podcast Is Being Difficult

The Moving Pixels Podcast considers how difficulty contributes to the pleasure and pain of gaming.


Monday, August 29 2011

On Costumes, Video Games, and the Art of Pretending

A little nostalgia goes a long way. Sometimes, you get so lost in looking at a thing that you forget that it's not real. Or at least, you want to forget that it's not real.


Monday, August 15 2011

The Problem of Genre in Video Games

Despite the wide variety of forms that games come in, the number of genres and the distinctions between them are confusingly small.


Friday, May 6 2011

Enrollment Begins: Undressing Promises about Video Games with McLuhan

Anyone who would make the claim that video games are the new literature has all of his work in media studies ahead of him.


Thursday, October 15 2009

The Guild: Seasons 1 & 2

Only a keen understanding of the gaming culture could generate such a dedicated, enthusiastic audience.


Wednesday, June 17 2009

Video-game sales expected to bounce back


Monday, August 4 2008

DHARMA’s Bent Reality: The Video Game Sensibility of Lost

Perhaps the most complete and fascinating assimilation of video game-type content into a different medium at a deep and thorough level occurs within the narrative world of the popular television show Lost.


Gamer Theory by McKenzie Wark (Reviews) [5.Jun.07]
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