Acid for Blood

There were a couple of sessions that I really enjoyed at the Game Developers Conference this year.
The first was “Game Studies Download 3.0“. The Game Studies Download first appeared at GDC 2006, which was the first GDC I attended. I’m quite interested in the various fields of game studies, having dabbled in it (read: dissertation […]

Iris Gaming Network co-founder, Cerise Magazine co-creator, and creator of the Shrub.com blog, Andrea Rubenstein, embarks on an exciting new adventure: game design school. Not only is she studying game design, but she’s also studying game design in Japan, at a well-regarded Japanese school (HAL), in the Japanese language.
Usually when one starts telling a story, […]

In an article on GameCareerGuide.com, Lisa Laughy elaborates on the state of game design education, why she decided to drop out, and why current structures may aid in the stagnation of industry innovation:
My complaints aren’t so much with the school I attended as they are with the way the industry has influenced the specifics of […]

Thomas Malaby analyses ganking over on Terra Nova:
What I would like to suggest is that this kind of PvP is meaningless. Or, perhaps more precisely, that the meaning it has is so narrow, rationalized, and improverished that it is outside of, or rejects, the game in which it is situated. Games, as ends in and […]

This is all kinds of awesome.
Note to self: Make time this weekend to catch up on his blog posts.
EDIT — 25 June 2006, 21:21: Yaaargh. No time to read. Will have to pore over Jenkins-blog whilst at work.
[Via Raph’s Website]
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This month, Matt Sakey writes about the role of the games academic and why scholars are important to the industry:
The fact of the matter is that contemplative navel-gazing has led to some pretty amazing advancements in a wide selection of disciplines, which is exactly why pure scholarship exists. Simple experimentation, research and study often gives […]

This will make germphobes and hypochondriac of us all: Toilet seat is cleaner than the average keyboard.
Despite this fact, I think I am the only one in the office who has yet to become ill this season. I haven’t had a cold (knock on wood) in two years, at least. Though, having said that, I […]

Seeing this post on Kotaku pointing to this article: Game skills pay off in real life (Mercury News) made me wonder whether I, as a gamer, am like the people cited in the article.
Got Game: How the Gamer Generating is Reshaping Business Forever is one of the books cited in the article. One of the […]