March 25, 2012

One Night in Skyrim Makes a Strong Man Crumble "The question becomes why the thing that doesn't make Skyrim so great is such a prominent part of Skyrim. Why, in fact, is it in Skyrim at all?"

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July 4, 2011

The Gamer's Gaze Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.

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June 26, 2011

Journalism: The Videogame: Redux or how games journalism was bad, got better, then got bad again in a different way.

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On Game Reviews versus Criticism and why one of them is a lot harder to do.

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June 14, 2011

Press X for Beer Bottle: On L.A. Noire

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June 10, 2011

This special issue of the Journal of Visual Culture devoted to articles on machinima is free to everyone until June 15th (sorry for the late notice, I just found out).

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June 2, 2011

Gender, Myth and Capitalism: An Academic View of Portal 2 A cautionary tale, slathered in semiotic bullshit.

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May 11, 2011

Dan Cook said : "Unlike a decade ago, there is now an absolute deluge of essays being written about games. Most of it is a waste of my time as someone who wants to see games improve." Worm can status: opened. [via, with commentary]

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