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Can a film that celebrates the geekiness of gaming succeed in a culture that pathologizes it?
Posts Tagged ‘games’
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
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The Future is Always Living in the Past
Posted: April 14, 2011 by Twitchdoctor in Games and Life, New MediaTags: augmented reality, Christopher Dede, Futurology, games, Geoffrey Nunberg, HP, Information Age, mediascapes, Microsoft, Mscape, Technology, The Future
Last time I flew it was nothing like the Starship Enterprise cabin that Microsoft offers in its vision of the future. Instead it resembled an overcrowded and singularly malodorous Turkish bath, except that I probably would have had more leg room in a Turkish bath and wouldn’t have had to put up with some snotty ankle-biter kicking the back of my seat while their parental unit lay passed out after too many $15 rum and cokes. Microsoft and their ad agencies really need to get off their corporate jets and try flying commercial once in a while.
Annoyingly False Binaries: A Response to “It may be art. . .but I really don’t care”
Posted: January 12, 2011 by Broadpaw in game design, Games and Life, UncategorizedTags: computer games, game design, game development, game studies, games, gaming, mass media, Video game, video games, videogames
Upon leaving a reply to “It may be art. . .but I really don’t care,” I soon realized that the reply was quickly becoming its own post. So here it is. My good Twitchdoctor, I am pleased that you tackle the question of “Are games art?” in the way that you have – in that [...]
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.
I may have been wr. . .wro. . .wr. . .actually no. I was dead on balls accurate.
Posted: September 26, 2010 by Twitchdoctor in game design, Game Platforms, Games and LifeTags: Apple, Arenanet, Eve Online, games, Guild Wars 2, ipad, iPhone, Jesper Juul, MMORPG, NCSoft, Pirates of the Burning Sea, Video game
Sometimes I am brilliant, even when I’m wrong.
Freedom Plaza
Posted: August 23, 2010 by Twitchdoctor in Games and LifeTags: 9/11, Bogost, first amendment, Freedom Plaza, games, gaming, place, private, public, space, War on Terror, World Trade Center
What is being invoked in the Ground Zero controversy is a very specific right wing conceptual frame governing the connection between place, religion, war, and culture. What is at stake is who gets to define public space in the US, to define a space as public, and to define the space of the US itself.
