From the monthly archives: June 2005

Gaming Culture web page now up

By On 28/06/2005 ·

We now have a web page up about the research volume that Patrick Williams and I are editing, entitled Gaming Culture and Social Life.
You can even sign up to be notified when the book is published.

Continue Reading →

Games and gamers

By On 28/06/2005 ·

At the recent DIGRA conference the future of game studies was largely thought/hoped to be non-formalistic. I take this to mean that many of those present were somewhat fed up with general claims about game structure and form, preferring instead more situated and player-oriented approaches (see also Jesper’s discussion on essentialism/formalism)
While [...]

Continue Reading →

Trackback problem

By On 28/06/2005 ·

I’m geeky enough to not accept that features don’t work. Such things are personal failures.
But I’ll be damned if I can figure out how to show trackbacks here on this blog (running the Kubrick WordPress default theme). Any ideas?

Seems I can send but not receive (ingoing trackbacks don’t show up in the [...]

Continue Reading →

Gaming culture treasure

By On 27/06/2005 ·

The Gamearchive historical article collection is still a small goldmine of data.

test
test 2

Continue Reading →

Video games threaten… board games

By On 27/06/2005 ·


According to Politiken Danish neuroscientist Kjeld Fredens is worried that video games are replacing board games in many children’s lives. Fredens, apparently, is convinced that board games stimulate different cognitive functions than do video games:

A board [...]

Continue Reading →