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Re. digital life: game reviews; design esoterica; abstruse and cockeyed musings on the downfall of digital entertainment, the betrayal of its liberatory potential, and our collective passage into a twilight of undifferentiated mass-market muck.

25.7.07

Origin stories

I just returned from the American Library Association's Gaming, Learning, and Libraries Symposium , and I have a long list of topics to ...

29.6.07

Valley girls

My current diet of gaming podcasts is sporadic, but I semi-regularly catch the AngryGamer podcast and the GamersHell Podcast (from the ...

27.6.07

Converging

In Tuesday's post , I mentioned Henry Jenkins' recent Convergence Culture . For those interested, here's my capsule review on Am...

26.6.07

Jane's (and Dick's) addiction

Word on the street is that the American Medical Association is rethinking an internal proposal to recognize "videogame addiction"...

19.6.07

In-world

I've had a mess of ideas percolating on the back-burner (is that technically a mixed metaphor?), but the past two months or so have been...

10.3.07

Cinematic gaming (Part 1 of 58)

I ended my commentary on Mass Effect 's dialog system with this statement: ...game designers too often forget that gaming is inherently ...

9.2.07

That new car smell

Apropos my earlier post on world-creation and the lack of innovation , take a look at GameShadow's "Innovation in Games" Award...

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