The other day my (nearly) two-year-old daughter invited me (“ordered” is of course more like it) me to participate in a game called “Ku-kuu”. She has yet to start forming sentences so the rules had to be sort of discovered as we went along. Essentially, the game seemed to be about me hiding somewhere [...]

Increasingly, I have come to believe that proposing general models for the analysis of video games, while potentially fruitful, are nearly always rather convoluted ways of revealing your disciplinary background.

That is not necessarily sinful. But game scholars not explicit about the arbitrariness of whatever variables their upbringing has taught them to focus on [...]

I pitched a few memes related to online gaming through the radio show “Mission” last night.
Mainly I was asked whether interacting in game worlds could be considered “natural” and comparable to RL communication.
The show also dealt extensively with another question: Is visible female pubic hair extending over the panties line [...]