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I’ve really been enjoying GameSetWatch’s series called ‘The Game Anthropologist,’ which (among other things) looks at various gaming communities — this week is a look at one of my favourite blogs, Michael Abbott’s The Brainy Gamer. We’ve looked at Abbott’s efforts to create (pretty collectively!) a syllabus for his history of RPGs course, which has inspired a lot of discussion both on his blog and here at Kotaku. The interview goes quite a bit beyond the borders of his blog, and I was particularly interested in his thoughts on games and academia, especially for those of us who cannot really be classed as ‘game studies’ people:
