Links: Games, Comics, Community, Feminism
I’ll be honest with you: I need to put these links somewhere before my browser crashes again under the combined weight of all my tabs. Please accept these half-formed thoughts. From Games to Comics: I...
View ArticleHunting for Mysteries
I have a new article up online, titled “Hunting for Mysteries.” It’s a short piece inspired by both my research and my personal experiences at the MIT Mystery Hunt (which I look forward to attending...
View ArticleRed Dead Railroading
Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption represents an interesting contradiction in game design. On the one hand, as a “sandbox” game, it represents everything that game critics and scholars have been saying...
View ArticleThe Game(s) of The Year
I love video games. But…. I realized recently that just about everything I write about games could start that way. I write about games because I find them so interesting to play and to analyze, but as...
View ArticleListen to Me Talk Too Much
I made a guest appearance on the latest episode of The Incomparable Podcast with my good friends Dan Moren and Tony Sindelar, and my new gaming idol, Scott McNulty. The topic: roleplaying games!...
View ArticleThe Tales Dead Men Don’t Tell
Remember Dead Island? Maybe you saw the award-winning trailer some months back. Internet audiences were captivated by its short, strangely affecting story of a family torn apart by zombies (both...
View ArticleIt’s About Games, Not Pockets
After months of blog silence, I emerge from my internet hibernation to unleash upon you a flurry of articles about video games. I’ve been quiet around these parts mostly because of all the writing I’ve...
View ArticlePlaying in the Streets
The following is an excerpt from my doctoral dissertation, Geek Cultures: Media and Identity in the Digital Age. It has been edited for the web. Just south of Central Park, walking north on Broadway,...
View ArticleSome Stuff I’ve Been Up To
Man, I sure wasn’t kidding about being busy in that last post. (I guess I was kidding about doing another post “soon,” given that that was two months ago. Yikes.) I hope you’ll agree, at least, that...
View ArticleThe “Lost” Appeals of Gaming
Back in February, I presented a paper at the Popular Culture Association conference in St. Louis on what I’ve been referring to around here as the multiple appeals of gaming. I’ve been coming back to...
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