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Spoken word

By On 10/11/2008 ·

As a podcast evangelist, I’m happy to announce that a couple of my articles are now available for your iPod pleasure at industrybroadcast.com.

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Understanding Video Games now in stores

By On 07/03/2008 ·

The video games text-book which I have co-written with Susana Tosca and Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen has now left the printers and reached the virtual shelves of Amazon.com.
The book is so interesting that it actually has a (somewhat rudimentary) [...]

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Persuasive Games reviewed

By On 02/10/2007 ·


I’ve published my thoughts on Ian Bogost’s book Persuasive Games over at game-research.com.
Briefly, I found the book a bit light on theory but excellent as a survey of the explosively growing field.

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Action game boosts spatial skills

By On 01/10/2007 ·


Researchers at the University of Toronto report that action game play increased players’ spatial skills, also over time. Female players get the biggest boost. Professor Ian Spence notes that

Clearly, something dramatic is happening in the brain when we see marked improvements in spatial skills after only [...]

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Game rhetoric

By On 27/09/2007 ·

I didn’t see it coming a few years back but I’m taking an interest in the persuasive powers of games (but then who isn’t? :-))
In that regard, I’ve strewn a few thoughts across my research group blog.

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