In Real Life

Is This Studying Hate Speech, Or Just Intellectualized Trolling?

GAMBIT, the video games research centre at MIT, is investigating racism and hate speech in online multiplayer gaming. The results are not particularly surprising, but I’ll confess to a morbid curiosity as to what a gamer would hear playing Halo: Reach under the gamertag PROUD_2B_MUSLIM, GayPride90 or Black_N_Proud90. It, and the language in this video, is decisively NSFW.


March 12, 2011
News

Contribute To The First Major Study Of Sports Video Gamers

The games development research lab GAMBIT, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has launched a study of sports video gamers, one a researcher believes will be the first comprehensive, independent examination of a very large video game segment, but one often seen as an outlier to the wider culture.


July 2, 2009

Gambit Graces Ultimate Alliance 2 Artwork

New box art for Marvel Ultimate Alliance two seems to indicate that a certain ragin’ cajun might be making an appearance in the upcoming sequel.


April 15, 2009

A Glimpse of Gambit in Origins

Here’s a glimpse of a battle between Wolverine and Gambit in upcoming X-Men: Origins Wolverine. That’s right, between and this time it’s no Danger Room Duel.