February 2008
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“There are obvious analogs between the dangers faced by silent films and the...”
– Save Game Now @ The Brainy Gamer
“Some of them had only one shoe, while others had no shoes or wore only socks....”
– The Dyatlov Pass Accident @ Wikipedia
ForumWarz →
a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet
WatchVdM #UM (Livros do Mal, 2001)
“Bulgakov’s old flat, in which parts of The Master and Margarita are set,...”
– Mikhail Bulgakov @ Wikipedia
Game Criticism, Why We Need It, and Why Reviews... →
Transrealism →
a literary mode that mixes the techniques of incorporating fantastic elements used in science fiction with the techniques of describing immediate perceptions from naturalistic realism
“I do not object to soul-searching and self-revelation, but in those books the...”
– Nabokov on Dostoevsky
“Bioshock wants to convey a thematically rich and ambitious narrative set in an...”
– Can games tell stories without guns? @ The Brainy Gamer
Chickensaurus Skeleton →
reassembling a chicken skeleton from the bones remaining after a chicken dinner
“But the behavior of one demographic remained absolutely consistent. Every single...”
– Pearls Before Breakfast
The Arty Party →
Jim Preston dispels the illusion of an ‘art club’ that games aren’t allowed to enter, suggesting that diversity has made the ‘games as art’ debate effectively meaningless.
“And when I write my novels, I’m not writing them to make political points. I’m...”
– China Miéville @ The Believer
What Have You Changed Your Mind About? Why? →
One hundred and sixty-five eminent thinkers, researchers, and communicators answer this question.
The Rarest & Most Valuable SNES Games →
@ retrogaming with racketboy
“I’ll bet you that video games will never become a significant form of...”
– Wager @ Fullbright
The Apostrophe Protection Society →
started with the specific aim of preserving the correct use of this currently much abused punctuation mark in all forms of text written in the English language.
“Cunning-Folk, who were also known as wise-women, wise-men, conjurors and...”
– Cunning Folk
“Rat kings are cryptozoological phenomena said to arise when a number of rats...”
– Rat King
WatchKataude Mashin Gâru (Noboru Iguchi, 2008)
State of the Genre: Adventure Games →
Can the once thriving genre ever regain its popularity?
Punk's Not Dead →
Why No More Heroes Matters
Gameology →
News, Commentaries and Resources for the Game Studies Community
“The distinction between highbrow and lowbrow — between genre writing and...”
– Great Literature? Depends Whodunit @ NYT
“How can the wine of consciousness, the weird, ineffable, immaterial qualia that...”
– Questioning Consciousness @ Seed
“Can you imagine what The Futurists would have done with an Information...”
– The Avant-Pop Manifesto, a personal classic since the 90s