As a WoW veteran, this was an enlightening and simultaneously all too familiar book. While I actually can’t say I’ve ever participated in Raid culture myself (I only think I ever actually reached level cap once, despite several peer-pressured attempts made through Azeroth), much of the interactions Nardi discusses I have witnessed first hand. Sadly,…
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Edwards Response to Bonnie Nardi’s Life as an Elf Priest
by Edbo •
Bonnie Nardi response
by Keenan T •
Bonnie Nardi’s anthropological account of World of Warcraft was exactly what I was told it was going to be but not was I was expecting by any means. Nardi does a great job at introducing people to the game and give readers the background knowledge required to understand exactly what is going on. I guess…
Film Review: Indie Game: The Movie
by cgill •
“Let me take my deepest vulnerabilities and put them in a game.” The indie game creator of Braid, Jonathan Blow, stated this at the end of a documentary created by Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky. It follows the story of two independent games, Super Meat Boy and Fez. It goes through the inner workings, specifically…
Shotgun Camping
by Oliver •
Halo has a distinct rhythm, a flow that acts as a hallmark of almost any match. It is a combination of movement, positioning, the act of engaging and disengaging and shooting. This flow is the core appeal of multiplayer Halo. Most players participate in this flow, this accepted method of playing. While subverting this flow…
BoRT Response
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Millennial Monsters
by Claire Knaeble •
Throughout Anne Allison’s book, the intertwinement of capitalism and fantasy and its impact on American soft power and Japanese globalism are discussed through various examples. I thought her writing style was a bit dense at times, but still readable nonetheless. I felt like an underlying theme throughout her book was the topic of relationships in…
Source Analysis: Bill Brown, “Waging Baseball, Playing War”
by Alan Kloosterhof •
Bill Brown’s article “Waging Baseball, Playing War: Games of American Imperialism” is a pretty interesting read. He briefly traces some of the American global baseball tours of the early twentieth century, and also how the Japanese used baseball in 1914 as a tool to colonize the island of Truk, a Japanese colony in the Caroline…
BoRT 3
by Alexina •
Final Paper Source
by Alexina •
One of the primary sources I am using outlines a study done on the effects of the sexualization of female video game characters on gender-stereo types as well as female self- image in young adults. The results of the study CATIOUTSLY suggest that the image of women was warped after playing a game with an…