Videogame Theorist, Game Developer and Interdisciplinary Nerd
Videogame Theorist, Game Developer and Interdisciplinary Nerd
A few weeks ago, I was finally able to see Mad Max: Fury Road, the most recent installment of George Miller’s long-running dystopian movie franchise. I went in with significantly higher expectations than I would normally have for a Mad…
Academic conferences are always slightly surreal experiences for me. I’m currently in Monterey, getting to present some of my work to my colleagues in the videogame research community. Many of them I’ve met before, though often these meetings are purely…
Last week, during Nintendo’s Financial Results Briefing, company president Satoru Iwata was asked about how Nintendo planned to monetize their upcoming ventures into mobile games, specifically if they were planning on analyzing existing games as they designed their own. Iwata…
Last week, Valve made the shocking (though not altogether unanticipated) move toward allowing modders to sell mods through Steam Workshop. This experiment lasted less than a week before it was abandoned in the face of widespread criticism and general discontent…
If you’ve read any of my posts over at Play the Past, then you probably know that I’m quite interested in science communication and its relationship to videogames. Science communication is a very broad field, dealing with any communication between…