Game Studies – Page 3

DiGRA: Morning Day 3

After spending another great evening in Uxbridge last night, and an on campus nightcap with a few friends, I woke up a bit late (seemed to have missed my alarm!), but still managed to make it to the morning’s panels on time. This morning’s first panel – Wii play: gestures, bodies and technologies – theContinue reading “DiGRA: Morning Day 3”

Off To London

I am off this evening to London for the Digra: Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory conference where I am presenting with my colleague Shanly Dixon on girls and videogames (will post abstract eventually). As always I am rushing around trying to finish up the last bit of packing, trying to findContinue reading “Off To London”

Hot Summer Days: Update #729

The first thing that pops into my head is a cheesy ’80’s song New Girl Now …click and laugh if you must, but do not judge – it was 1984 afterall! The last few days have been scorching hot (30 c + / 80 f + ); and there is at least another week ofContinue reading “Hot Summer Days: Update #729”

Random Dissertation Thoughts

I had my first full-on thesis proposal/comprehensive exam meeting on Thursday. All in all, it went relatively well. Ok – to be honest, it was a lot better than I had expected, and only have some minor tweaking on my actual proposal, and a decent-sized (but very doable) edit on my secondary comp paper. OneContinue reading “Random Dissertation Thoughts”

Game Studies – New Issue

A new issue of Game Studies – Special Issue – EQ 10 Years Later has just come out. This issue is dear to my heart not only because of the fact that we (Bart Simon & Mark Silverman) have an article in the issue, but also because it is the game that brought me toContinue reading “Game Studies – New Issue”

The Figur(ative) in Video Games … a beginning

As I have mentioned here before, I am taking my last PhD class (/cheer) entitled “The Figure in Film”. So far, it has been an interesting excursion into some very classic works from the ’20’s on – spanning avant-garde, experimental and Russian film (so far..). We have been looking at the role of metaphor, metonomyContinue reading “The Figur(ative) in Video Games … a beginning”

Speaking of Role-Playing

Just a short post really. But I was thinking of all of the conversations about what constitutes a “video game”, and I have been wondering about online role-playing games. Perhaps a little too late for me to start contemplating this since my entry has already been written and printed on this, but thinking about myContinue reading “Speaking of Role-Playing”

Spring Break, Community & Upcoming Events

How I wish I could spin some exotic tale of how we are heading down south to the sun and the sand. However, ’tis not the case. We are driving for 10-12 hours to visit my family in New Brunswick for a week of skating, tobogganing (sp!?) and sitting by the fire with a hot drink.Continue reading “Spring Break, Community & Upcoming Events”

Elasticity of Time: Films & Games

I am taking a course that is taught jointly with the Sorbonne Paris 3 (as I mentioned in an earlier post) and we have been given our (only) assignment for the course. There are four sections of the course covering different topics. We are to pick one of the four topics and write a paperContinue reading “Elasticity of Time: Films & Games”

Rock Band

Perhaps a day late on this one, but we played Rock Band for a friend’s birthday party and it was a blast. I am happy to have not tried the drums – not actually singing into the mic (although I did not hesistate to be the loud singer in the crowd) but the game wasContinue reading “Rock Band”