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There are many mysteries in life to which we will never, ever find a satisfactory answer: why Wall Street continues to make money hand over fist in the middle of a recession, how baseball replaced watching paint dry as the US national past-time, why anyone takes Michele Bachman seriously. One of those unsolvable mysteries is [...]
Posts Tagged ‘simulation’
The Lies We Tell Ourselves
Posted: April 3, 2011 by Twitchdoctor in Exemplary Games, game design, Games and MarketingTags: Cliffs of Dover, computer games, flight simulation, game design, game development, IL2: Sturmovik, simulation, Ubisoft
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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, [...]
The Beatings Continue. Morale has not Improved.
Posted: December 29, 2009 by Twitchdoctor in Exemplary Games, Games and the MediaTags: advertising, domestic violence, hit the bitch, media, media coverage, simulation, violence
Part of me hoped that I was able to put beating the living crap out of women behind me, especially as we look to turn the page on this year, but I guess it wasn’t to be.
