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I recently read an article entitled “Game Over for Gamestop“ on a website called SeekingAlpha.com which suggested that Gamestop as a business will collapse at some vaguely defined point in the near future if their business model does not change. Now I see several flaws in the theory and logic that they are using to make [...]
Archive for the ‘Games and the Media’ Category
Lamentations on Gamestop (or is it Gamestop Analysts?)
Posted: September 24, 2011 by aegisfang in Game Platforms, Game Research, Games and Marketing, Games and the Media3
Slaying the Lone Gunman
Posted: June 21, 2011 by Twitchdoctor in Games and Life, Games and the Media, UncategorizedTags: Avatar, Galaxy Quest, games, Last Starfighter, science fiction, The Fellows Hip: Rise of the Gamers, The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, The Matrix, Tron, Video game, wargames
Can a film that celebrates the geekiness of gaming succeed in a culture that pathologizes it?
Artful Dodging
Posted: January 17, 2011 by Twitchdoctor in game design, Game Research, Games and Life, Games and the Media, New Media, UncategorizedTags: art, censorship, Chris Crawford, computer games, game design, game development, game studies, Henry Jenkins, International Game Developers Association, Video game
In his article Broadpaw made an excellent point about the reluctance of many people to think of games as art or even that particular games might be a form of art; we are lightyears away from someone acknowledging that a specific game might be great art. Broadpaw noted that the entire debate is structured around [...]
2D Thinking About 3D Worlds
Posted: October 14, 2010 by Twitchdoctor in game design, Games and Life, Games and the MediaTags: 3D Star Wars, 3D television, Avatar, games, George Lucas, James Cameron, star wars, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, video games
A turd in 3D is still a turd, only now it is disturbingly lifelike and sitting much too close to your face.
Uncle Sam Wants You!
Posted: May 13, 2010 by Twitchdoctor in Games and the Media, Games and the MilitaryTags: military, recruitment, simulation, videogames, wargames
One of my former students, Ajay Kumar, has just published a piece on the US military’s use of videogames as recruitment tools. The piece appears in GW Discourse, the student-run publication of George Washington University’s Political Science Department. The piece was written prior to the leaked video footage of the helicopter gunship attack in Baghdad, [...]
Yet Another Reason to Love "Old Europe"
Posted: April 30, 2010 by Twitchdoctor in Games and Life, Games and the MediaTags: BAFTA, cheezwiz, cinema, computer games, Free Speech, movies, Oscars, Supreme Court, videogames
What do the British do with videogames? They give them awards. BAFTA awards, no less. What do Americans do with videogames? Try and ban them on the grounds of obscenity.
The Game of War
Posted: April 13, 2010 by Twitchdoctor in game design, Games and Life, Games and the Media, Games and the MilitaryTags: Baghdad, civilian casualties, computer games, gunship, Iraq, journalism, news media, videogames, war games, Wikileaks. Facebook
In the same period that the popularity of gaming has skyrocketed, rates of violence in the US, especially among younger people, have steadily declined. Of course, that won’t stop your average Concerned Parents group from trotting out the first piece of dubious research into game violence they can lay their Google on, but that speaks more to the general scientific (and research) illiteracy of our society. After all, there are people who actually argue that Creation Science is, well, a science.
