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Speaking of grandeur of and interactions with spaces, much has been made of survivalist ARMA II mod Day Z. Our favorite Sneaky Bastards pinned down the game’s charm thusly:

Despite its player-driven stealth gameplay, DayZ is not an emergent game. Emergence is something defined by the interaction of systems, whereas the ones that govern DayZ are as basic as can be. It goes beyond emergence, appealing to and being a reflection of raw human behaviour.

Quintin Smith, in a piece for Eurogamer which echoes his memorable Rock, Paper, Shotgun series on Russian cult hit

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…puts up a good rebuttal of the attacks Day constantly faces.

Videogames often invite us to reach outside our comfort zones, so why is it that some gamers feel so uncomfortable to share their hobby? Unwinnable’s Gus Mastrapa has the word on Spelunky as a game that encourages us to try new things.

I’ll leave you with two interesting curios to wrap up this edition of TWIVGB.

First up is Adam Ruch’s kidnapping adventure in DayZ, which is a game you should be playing if you aren’t already.

And last, but not least, is You Chose…

…games have defined games’ history. The question becomes: what do we do with it now?

At Higher Level Gamer, Jason Coley lays out the first article in a series on the virtues of persistent world play experiences, drawing upon popular reception to Dean Hall’s DayZ.

Critical Distance contributor Cameron Kunzelman continues his analysis on Assassin’s Creed, this time focusing on its micro and macro time scales.

And on The Escapist, regular columnist Robert Rath brings us this whammy of an article, arguing that while videogames may not have a Citizen Kane, games as an industry very much…

…even assign the game the “sexualized violence” label present in the American rating.

Kim Correa, whom we featured several weeks ago for her bracing account of a sexual assault experience in DayZ, has followed up with a report of some of the comments her post generated, and additionally connects her experience with Julian Dibbell’s 1993 article “A Rape in Cyberspace,” which has also been making the rounds lately (including here):

What strikes me most [about Dibbell’s piece] is the willingness of the community to pull together, to work toward mending a problem and taking appropriate actions for

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