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Passing The Buck In A Culture Of Dismissal
36This weekend I had the good fortune to attend NYU Practice, a fantastic in-depth conference on game design. I was repeatedly surprised at how clever the solutions were to the presented challenges. The lessons were both insightful and, more importantly, applicable as a game designer working for a social games startup. The NYU Game centre…
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The Worst Music Video Games Ever
Music games aren’t what they used to be, and in some cases, the world is safer for that. Video game expert Scott Steinberg and author of the new digital book “Music Games Rock”, tells us what the seven worst music video games of all time are.
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Gamification Is Bullshit
In his short treatise On Bullshit, the moral philosopher Harry Frankfurt gives us a useful theory of bullshit. We normally think of bullshit as a synonym-albeit a somewhat vulgar one-for lies or deceit. But Frankfurt argues that bullshit has nothing to do with truth.
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The 10 Best Moments In Pro-Gaming History
Competitive gaming and eSports are not a new phenomenon. The act of playing games for sport has been growing in popularity since the mid ’90s. From Doom 2 deathmatch, NetQuake and Descent, to Warcraft 2 on Kali, Diablo and Ultima Online PvP – to say nothing of going down to the local arcade to spend…