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In the wake of the exciting "Art History of Games" conference in Atlanta, where some extraordinarily interesting questions about the nature of the several things we call "games" were given room to grow, I want to treat Thursday's group playthrough of the beginning of KOTOR as an opportunity to talk about whether the thing that I'm calling "… Continue

Seven VGHVI'ers had a remarkably fun and interesting time last night playing Bioshock simultaneously and talking about it on Skype. To my surprise, I managed to record a good portion of it in passable audio (with the unfortunate exception of Jonathan Mills' contributions, which are terribly muffled, though decipherable with patience).



The whole thing was so rewarding, and the editing was so (relatively) easy that I'm interested in finding out whether we should do this on a regular… Continue

I've written what seems to me like a great deal about Bioshock already. I suppose I've stopped just short of anointing it as, well, the Anointed One: the Harbinger and Lodestar of Games' Imminent Profundity. (I imagine that my friend Simon Ferrari would probably disagree that I stopped short of that.) You can find a representative sample of my hyperbolic claims… Continue

One of the most important parts of the mission of VGHVI is to get our members playing video games together, to have something to talk about in our signature interdisciplinary way and, well, just to have a lot of fun. Over the past year or so we've done that on a pretty much weekly basis, and it's been really wonderful. We've played every kind of multiplayer game there is, from Castle Crashers to Carcassonne. Frankly, when I think of these Thursday nights, what comes instantly to… Continue