ian bogost
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Ms. Pac-Man Is A Feminist, And Three More Daring Video Game Arguments
1This has been a very good year for video games, but it has been an exceptional year for books about video games — surely the best ever. I can’t tell you who will win the prestigious BAGOTY award for 2015, but Cara Ellison’s Embed With Games, Simon Parkin’s Death by Video Game, and Michael W.…
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What Does It Mean When Video Games Are ‘Fun’?
If you have a spare 30 minutes and feel like thinking about video games for a while, you could do a lot worse than this interesting talk by Ian Bogost. The word ‘fun’ is as common and dead as any word we use to describe video games. What do we mean when we use that…
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Curious? You Can Blow $10,000 On This In-Game Clicker
Game designer Peter Molyneux is launching a series of video game experiments. The first one is called “Curiosity”, and it has players chip away at a black cube to see the “truly amazing, absolutely unique” object inside. Molyneux is even offering a US$77,000 downloadable tool to help chip away at the cube.
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Game Studies Take The Spotlight At Macquarie University’s GAME
For those with any interest in Game Studies, or video games in general for that matter, GAME – an event run by Macquarie University – is designed to showcase some of the great work currently being done in this rapidly growing field of academia.
