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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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Dr. Egenfeldt I presume?

By On 27/05/2005 ·

In 20 minutes Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen will be defending his PhD dissertation (preliminary version) here at the ITU (Auditorium 2).
All are welcome.

Update:

As we see here the candidate assumed a rather laidback position, a position not really changed throughout the event.

The panel consisting of David Buckingham, Jørgen [...]

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Videogame doctors

By On 04/03/2005 ·

A recent ill-informed CNN money article asked “What’s next: a Ph.D. in video gaming?“
Well, duh! – but I started a small count and actually, the number of game PhD’s to be is quite impressive.
Below is a list of people that I can think of, top of my head, who are [...]

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The package has been delivered… I repeat…

By On 28/02/2005 ·

One should not fail to mention that esteemed former PhD student, long-time Age of Kings show-off and much besides, Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, handed in his massively multi-page PhD dissertation on games and education quite recently.

We who are about to write salute you.

Update: Simon’s timely thesis will be the third game dissertation [...]

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Playing with fire?

By On 05/01/2005 ·

Forgot to mention that Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen’s and my report “Playing with Fire – How do computer games influence the player?” has been published by NORDICOM.

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