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Mine seneste 10 links

By On 05/05/2010 ·

Amazon.com: Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things (9780151014231): Randy O. Frost, Gail Steketee: Books Gamasutra – News – Nordic Game Program Awards $533,000 To Eight Nordic Games The Escapist : Better Than Film GT Countdown Video Game, Top Ten Worst Movie Games | Game Trailers [...]

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Playful politics

By On 12/11/2007 ·

A parliamentary election is almost upon is here in modest-sized Denmark. The current right-of-center government, supported by the nationalist Danish People’s Party, is being challenged by a left-of-center axis. With Christian Democrats unlikely to reach the (non-taxing) cut-off of 2% and our most left-wing party balancing on that same edge. Also,

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Sociology Master Thesis gets censored

By On 09/10/2007 ·

In what seems to me a difficult PR challenge to both, DR (the Danish BBC equivalent) and Copenhagen University‘s Department of Sociology have collaborated in censoring a sociology master thesis. As reported in Information (upon which the following is based) Mille Buch-Andersen did a study of the [...]

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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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