This is a really cool blog on video game theory.
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Video Games Are Legitimate. Get Over It.
If you have to ask the question, then your implicit answer is that you don't think they are culturally legitimate.
Read more »Urgent Aphorisms: Notes on Organized Networks for the Connected Multitudes
In between the blog posting and the tweet there is the aphorism, a centuries old literary form that should do well amongst creative media workers. Zipped knowledge of the 21st century.
Read more »The Digital Given–10 Web 2.0 Theses by Ippolita, Geert Lovink & Ned Rossiter
On Game Art, Circuit Bending and Speedrunning as Counter-Practice: 'Hard' and 'Soft' Nonexistence
Becoming unmeasurable, or nonexistent, in relation to this particular classification [between "user" and "programmer"], which is created through a subject's relationship to technology, represents a productive way of thinking towards counter-practice under contemporary digital culture. http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=609
Read more »Empire@Play: Virtual Games and Global Capitalism
But this latest iteration of bread-and-circuses culture-theory nevertheless provides a timely entry for a discussion of digital games as exemplary media of contemporary Empire.
Read more »AvantGame, Jane McGonigal's website
Game design for the real world and game theory for real life.
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