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Resident Evil films over at In Media Res
I’m really digging this image for the 2014 film. My colleague Marianna Martin and I co-organized a theme week of In Media Res on the Resident Evil films. The Resident Evil films have a lot to recommend...
View ArticleWhat I’ve Been Playing: Skylanders Giants
We picked up Skylanders Giants on sale at Target earlier this spring. I’d gotten interested in the game while researching the history and use of feelies, and so I was curious about the integration of...
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Belatedly Introducing Choice: Texas
Here’s a banner version of the logo by Grace Jennings. A few weeks ago, Allyson Whipple and I launched an IndieGoGo campaign to raise funds for the completion of an interactive fiction game we’ve been...
View ArticlePostcards from Vienna: F.R.O.G. 13
A few weeks ago, I got to travel to Vienna for the Future and Reality of Gaming (F.R.O.G.) 13 Conference. I’ve been to a lot of conferences at this point, and I’ve presented my research a number of...
View ArticleCall for Participants in Documentary Project on Women in Gaming Culture
My colleague Jennifer deWinter and I are putting together a short documentary project, and we are looking for contributors. Please pass along the call here and consider participating. If you have any...
View ArticleThe Pleasures of Peer Review
For better or worse, I’ve been getting a lot of requests to peer review lately. This comes on the tail end of co-editing three special issues of journals (one on “The Undead Arcade” for Reconstruction,...
View ArticleTeaching Note: Theory in Technology and Humanities
This semester I’m teaching a “Special Problems” graduate course. “Special Problems” courses are effectively group independent studies on specific topics, and so this term I’ve been leading a very small...
View ArticleInfluential Game Designers: Shigeru Miyamoto released
Jennifer deWinter and I co-founded and now co-edit a series on Influential Game Designers for Bloomsbury academic. We first discussed the idea of the series several years ago. When we finally picked it...
View ArticleAnnouncing Feeling Games Symposium
A few months ago, I started putting together a symposium on the intersection of games and emotions. That symposium, now titled “Feeling Games,” is happening in a couple weeks here at Illinois Tech.…...
View ArticleScreen Time Symposium September 9, 2016
Jennifer Miller and I are hosting a symposium here in Chicago this fall as part of our work with our Nayar Prize Finalist project on learning games for young children. Please consider submitting and...
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