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In tandem with DiGRA 2013, Georgia Tech and the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) presented a collection of games designed by women. Dubbed XYZ: Alternative Voices in Game Design and curated by Celia Pearce, Cindy Poremba, John Sharp, Adam Rafinski, and Akira Thompson, this exhibit housed a wide of array of games for PC, console, and analogue. What I had forgotten was that Brenda Brathwaite’s Train was there, arguably the most influential game I had …
Imagine going to what must be the most elegant place on earth. Now imagine going to its most meaningful and sacred places: a rock garden and golden temple. Now imagine that you stroll back to its Ritsumeikan University where every building is nicer than your university’s nicest building. You walk into a conference room with an earpiece in your ear as interpreters translate academic jargon on the fly from Japanese to English and vice versa. …
I am going to be on the radio tomorrow at 7:50 am and again between 5 and 6 pm on Saturday. I am talking about my board game Gets it Better: Poor, Ugly, Gay, Stupid, Sick.
The last three days, Gina Haraszti and I participated as guinea pigs in a pilot project run by Mike Savatovsky called Nu Montreal. This event sought to answer one very strange question: What happens when you put money and 30 young new media savvy people in a room for 50+ hours and ask them to make Judaism relevant? We were hand picked to represent different areas of expertise. I came with video games, but others …
I wanted to post a link to the website Branchez-Vous.com. One of their journalists, Joseph Elfassi interviewed me in response to the recent comments and complaints about homosexuality in Mass Effect 3.
http://www.branchez-vous.com/techno/actualite/2012/04/les_personnages_de_mass_effect.html
I have been playing the DotA 2 Beta for 4 months now. I went in with skills and knowledge developed some 7 years earlier when I played its predecessors, Age of Strife and DotA on Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne’s custom maps. Let me tell you, I was pretty good back then. However, the game matured and became an e-sport, while I went on to seek greener pastures (infatuated with WoW for ~2300 hours). Coming …