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August 7th

…‘Sunshine’ and then read all the stuff tagged ‘Far Cry 2’ in order. Players familiar with the game will find it uncannily evocative.

At the KillScreen daily blog Lana Polansky looks at ‘The Best of Both Worlds’ which somehow connects James Joyce’s Ulysses with Bayonetta, largely by way of comparing literary reception and game reception.

Finally, for our German-speaking readers, the German language website ‘Titel Magazine’ is trying to do something like what we do with TWIVBG for their German readers and the German games blogosphere. There is no shortage of non-English speakers interested in game criticism, clearly.

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Xavier Ho | Keywords in Play, Episode 30

…about game research supported by Critical Distance and the Digital Games Research Association.

As a joint venture, Keywords in Play expands Critical Distance’s commitment to innovative writing and research about games while using a conversational style to bring new and diverse scholarship to a wider audience.

Mahli-Ann: Welcome to Keywords in Play, I am Mahli-Ann Butt and today we have a wonderful guest, Dr. Xavier Ho! It’s such a pleasure to have you, I think we’re going to have a very special episode in learning about your very unique background, your career path, as well as Pride…

Assassin’s Creed II

…corruption and ambition. As Ruch notes, Machiavelli serves as the “moral interpreter” of the Italian political scene, out of which the AC2 narrative is deployed. Interestingly, “while Ezio is not a historically authentic character, the main antagonist is”: Rodrigo Borgia. Taken together, the fictional elements of AC2 were congruent with common perceptions of Renaissance Italian politics and intrigue. In the end, if AC2 provided a rich environment for refined gameplay, even if Ruch did not consider that it “push[ed] the limits of game design” the way a GTA3 did.

Back in 2007, when Ubisoft blew millions on marketing its…

Gejun Huang | Keywords in Play, Episode 26

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Darshana: You’re listening to Keywords in Play, an interview series about game research supported by Critical Distance and the Digital Games Research Association. As a joint venture, Keywords in Play expands Critical Distance’s commitment to innovative writing and research about games while using a conversational style to bring new and diverse scholarship to a wider audience.

Hugh: Welcome to Keywords in Play. Gejun, can I ask you to introduce yourself and your research in your own words?

Gejun: Yeah, of course! I’m Dr Gejun Huang, currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at

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August 19th

Welcome back. Kris is on break this weekend so I’m here to fill your TWIVGB needs in the meantime.

The Extra Credits crew finishes up a two-parter talking about mechanics as metaphor using the flash game Loneliness to weld to discussion together.

CNN has done a number of in-depth articles on several subjects with how games are intersecting with real life in interesting ways; from South Korea’s Pro Gaming/Game Addiction dichotomy to gamifying the prison system to great success.

This week the community blew up in response to Borderlands 2 lead developer calling a skill tree

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April 20th

…here to learn how to get involved!

This was a great week for game zines, as Unwinnable Weekly made its Kickstarter goal (mazels!) and Arcade Review has released its second issue. So it sounds like you have a lot of reading ahead of you!

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This Year In Videogame Blogging: 2018

…Ruben Ferdinand Ruben Ferdinand sees Battlefield V as another “link in the shackle of commodified World War 2 stories,” based not on anything true, but “on sensationalized cultural images.”

  • A Sad, Fun Story | Bullet Points – Reid McCarter Despite what Battlefield V has to say for itself, Reid McCarter can’t help but feel its aspects in service to being a fun, multiplayer shooter renders “the war into little more than an aesthetic” saying its “lasting impression is of a sad story read in a jungle gym.”

    • Where The Water Tastes Like Wine

    • Encountering the…

    Alenda Y. Chang | Keywords in Play, Episode 13

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    Darshana: You’re listening to Keywords in Play, an interview series about game research supported by Critical Distance and the Digital Games Research Association.

    As a joint venture, Keywords in Play expands Critical Distance’s commitment to innovative writing and research about games while using a conversational style to bring new and diverse scholarship to a wider audience.

    Emilie: Welcome back to Keywords in Play. In this episode, I’m talking to Alenda Y. Chang, who is an associate professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research and teaching interests include

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    Brendan Keogh | Keywords in Play, Episode 31

    …is, because I kept plugging the open access version online, “the book is open access anyone can read it” and I had a few people be like “I wish I could just read it as a real book”. No, you can do that too, you can still just go in your bookstore of choice’s webpage and find an actual real copy of it and spend money on it or buy a copy on your ebook reader of choice but if you just want some PDFs, they’re on the website.

    Mahli-Ann: Well thank you Brendan for coming in and…