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Alex Myers, artist and Assistant Professor and Program Director of Game Studies at Bellevue University. is sharing a creative remix of Roland Barthes seminal "The Death of the Author" essay. The piece, titled, The Death of the Player, "was modified to fit a game criticism context by
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Eye-Machine III (Courtesy of Neural) Three must read articles and features on Game Art: Regine Debatty reviews the latest edition of GAMERZ (We Make Money Not Art). Harun Farocki interviewed by Daphe Dragona (Neural). Coaching Ludique (Art Game Week 3) (Ecriture Videoludique, in French). Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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Another sublime essay from Douglas Edric Stanley. A tour de force that begins with William Higinbotham's invention... "In 1958, the American physicist William Higinbotham created what is one of the first instances of what we would today call a modern “video game”. The game, named Tennis For
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"The need for death in gaming is multifaceted. The cynical argument, largely based on the arcade experience, might describe death in gaming as an economical equation: in order to make more money, games needed to provoke death as quickly as possible in order to get to the next “insert