Feed the Birds, Tuppence a Bag
This kind of goes back a ways. Hang tight. Almost three years ago, the staff at the Game Lab (then GAMBIT) decided we wanted to try to allocate some time to developing little game projects together that had no real …
Author: Abe Stein
Abe Stein is a Research Affiliate at the MIT Game Lab and recently completed his SM in the Program in Comparative Media Studies at MIT, writing about sports videogames. He has authored a number of articles about sports and sports media and is co-editor of the book Sports Videogames. He currently works as an Associate Director of Communications at Wheaton College, in Norton, MA and as a researcher with the eSports company Azubu, and have studied and written about sports media.
That Time I Escaped from Alcatraz
Thank you, Russ Enlow. There are so many horror stories from American gym classes, filled with shaming, and disgusting power dynamics, and negligent supervision, but not so for me. I know, I’m lucky. In my game studies circles I’m often …
Will We Soon See A SC2_NVIDIA_GeForce_GG Bowl?
So this weekend I watched a fair amount of the Starcraft 2 World Championship Series Season 1 championships online. My appetite for SC2 was whet a few days earlier when I had one of my first multiplayer play sessions here …
Game Design And The Erosion of Meaning
My undergraduate major was religious studies. After receiving my letter of acceptance from Haverford College, my parents, who were both ardent supporters of the values of a liberal arts education, encouraged me to explore different classes as a student. “Do not worry …
Funding Game Projects: Notes from the MIT Business in Gaming Conference
The following post was written by Eduardo Marisca, CMS Graduate Student. The MIT Business in Gaming (BiG) conference took place here at the MIT campus a few weeks ago, organized by the MIT Sloan Business in Gaming Club. It was …
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Weekly 5 – 4/26/13 “Shameless Self-Promotion Edition”
Welcome to a very special “Shameless Self-Promotion” edition of the Weekly 5. Usually we bring you interesting links from across the web, but today we are focusing on our own little corner of the internet because we have a TON …
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IHA Northeast Regional Championships, May 17th 5PM
The IHA Northeast Regional Chapmionships When: Friday May 17th, 5PM Where: MIT Sloan Laboratory 35-225 That’s right! The IHA Northeast Regional Championships are BACK! Last year, Ramiro Corbetta and Robert Yang took home the title and donned the Hokra …
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Weekly 5 – 4/12/13
Hi Ho, here’s another selection of Weekly 5 links from across the interwebs. 1. Bioshock Infinite Critique – Philip Leigh Alexander wrote an excellent critique of Bioshock Infinite. It is a great example of what we might call “New Games Criticism” and it …
Owen Goes to GDC
Owen Macindoe was one of a few IGDA scholars selected to attend GDC this past march. Here’s his report on the event.My time at GDC this year had a particularly serious tone for two reasons. The first was that I …
FROG Conference CfP – “Context Matters”
This post was written by conference co-chair Konstantin Mitgutsch. A little background about unconventional game politics When in 2006 a tragic school shooting took place in Emsdetten (Germany), a new initiative for censorship in Austria was instigated by political parties …