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What is being touted as a kind of “Second Life for kids”, Nickelodeon’s “Nicktropolis” is a place where: Children will be able to create their own personalized 3D rooms on the site, which launches on Tuesday, and move through Nicktropolis by taking on a self-designed 3D avatar similar to those on popular virtual world SecondContinue reading “Get a "Nicktropolis" Life”

Another interesting upcoming event well worth the time and $8 (for IGDA members, $10 for non-members) cover, is the screening of the documentary 8Bit at the “Society for Arts and Technology on February 17th. The evening also includes dj’s and cocktails For more detailed information check out the SAT’s website. Excerpted from the advert 8BitContinue reading “8-bit Screening”

On my walk home from the University yesterday, I walked past this ice building in front of a local eatery, restaurant garcon. As temperatures dip well below zero (minus 19 celcius this morning – “feels like” minue 27 with the wind chill factor) I know that winter is here full on. Seeing this ice entranceContinue reading “Winter Wonderland”

An interesting article here about Edmonton’s Orchestra playing to a full house – video game classics no less.

It has been many years since I have taken a horoscope seriously or have been moved by one, but this week’s, found in the local weekly free newspaper the Mirror, I read this: To Create a pearl, an oyster needs an aggravating parasite inside its shell. It builds layers of calcium carbonate around the invader,Continue reading “Relax, Its in the Stars”

Over the last year or so, I have been hearing stories of parents sueing MySpace for not protecting their children adequately from predators, the latest one coming from four families from different parts of the United States. When I read articles like this one, I have a tendency to get quite irate. Like so manyContinue reading “MySpace & Parental Responsibility”

The time has come for me to buckle down and put all my words from mouth to paper. A project that I have been working on for what feels like forever, my Master’s thesis has become the largest and most complex jigsaw puzzle I have ever had to put together. For years, all of myContinue reading “Thesis Writing”

Although due to tight deadlines and struggling thesis writing, I will not be able to attend, there is an upcoming gameCODE event that looks like alot of fun. Details below: A Montreal Game Studies Symposium: Guitar Hero: Playing at Playing Guitar Friday, January 26th 1-5pm Hall Building rm 1120 Concordia University 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd.Continue reading “Upcoming GameCODE Event”

Alot of my research centers around the construction and maintenance of avatars in video games. There has been alot written about the desire for female gamers to have avatar options in single player games that represent them in game play. Although Lara Croft offered them a female avatar to navigate, there has been rumblings aboutContinue reading “Perception of Avatars”

After writing my little post on DDR, I was wondering about the notion of cheating in games like DDR, eyetoy games and the like. The study of cheating in games has a solid place in Game Studies, and for the most part, I have agreed with both sides of the debate (although surely there areContinue reading “Just Briefly…”