My favorite reading out of this week’s lot was “Games of Empire.” Since learning about Second Life I have thought that the game was very interesting, and this reading affirmed my suspicion. I especially liked how the author called out the game for being “much like the first” life, because the in game experience is…
Monthly Archives: April 2015
Kitsch
by Griffin H. •
Response
by Skye •
The Orientalism and Abstraction in Eurogames irritated me, Cybertext left me complex, Games of Empire freaked me out, and How to do Things with Videogames was actually wonderful. The readings for this week, as you can tell, created a cluster of emotions. I had a watch A Clockwork Orange and Rosemary’s Baby to become centered…
My Teamwork BORT
by chandsaker •
Teamwork has always been one of the most important aspects of gameplay. The line between a group of people playing a professional sport, or trying to complete an intense raid in World of Warcraft is relatively fine. As someone who has played many sports, but has never played in a massively multiplayer game online, I…
BotRT 1: Cheesing vs the Legitimate in Destiny
by Alan Kloosterhof •
The end-game content of Bungie’s Destiny can be fairly challenging. This especially goes for Destiny’s raids. Though they are smaller than the World of Warcraft raids we read about in Nardi’s book (Destiny raids cap out at 6 people), they are similar to WoW raids in that they are long missions requiring coordination and communication between…
Blog of the Round Table 3. I couldn’t relate to this one at all
by Keenan T •
Jim Thorpe
by Skye •
In a world where the wasting of millions of dollars on people whose main talent is hitting, throwing, catching, or “dunking” a ball into some hole or open space. Walls are polluted with posters of these athletes in their stereotypical athletic poses. Nevertheless, the tearing and throwing of these posters will happen and be replaced…
Film Review: Atari: Game Over
by cgill •
Atari: Game Over is a documentary directed by Zak Penn that follows the story of “the worst video game in history”, E.T. released in 1982. It continues to follow it as a game that also brought the collapse of Atari, the first game engineers. An urban legend that also follows Atari’s collapse is that they…