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February 2010 Blog Posts (4)

Systems Theory in Virtual Worlds

Hello everyone! I write about virtual worlds at my personal blog Look In The Air. Many of the posts are not directly related to the subject matter of this community, so I don't plan on posting everything I write to VGHVI. For topics that do overlap, I will try and add them. Thankful for the opportunity to contribute!

Richard

As I… Continue

Added by Richard Huskey on February 10, 2010 at 1:18pm — No Comments

"Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic" as a practomime

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

Added by Roger Travis on February 8, 2010 at 9:47am — No Comments

Context Clues for January 2010

Hey, did anyone hear that a game called Bayonetta came out? A couple people wrote about it. I don't really want to edge in on Critical Distance's Critical Compilations, though, so I'm going to try and break some of them down into component parts about things like female sexuality and empowerment (which is the bulk of it) and about other issues in the game that showed up in other places this month, such as how games handle religion (yes, that topic is still kicking).

It seems… Continue

Added by Erik Hanson on February 4, 2010 at 5:19pm — 2 Comments

Context Clues News: January 24-30, 2010

Here's the news for last week. Lookout tomorrow for a rundown of major discussion topics in January!

Duncan Fyfe is back writing games-related fiction at Life Starts Here.

The Game Design Aspect Of The Month for February is "emotive games."

Rock, Paper Shotgun is opening a new forum for people to… Continue

Added by Erik Hanson on February 2, 2010 at 9:06pm — 1 Comment

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