Blogs about: Michael Abbott

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Short Shrift: Resistance 22 comments

mtvernon wrote 6 months ago: Over the last few weeks, I’ve been woefully disappointed at the lack of coverage Resistance 2 … more →

Tags: Gaming, Sony Playstation 3, Entertainment, Recommendation, Observation, Valve, Half-Life, Valve Corporation, the brainy gamer

Realizing the Promise of Realism

mtvernon wrote 7 months ago: I’ve long been a proponent of highly sylized video games. This probably has much to do with t … more →

Tags: Blogroll, Entertainment, Essay, Gaming, Microsoft Xbox 360, PC, Sony Playstation 3, Activision, Beyond Good & Evil

Games Blogger's Block1 comment

mtvernon wrote 8 months ago: Ever get the feeling we’re all just saying the same damn thing? … more →

Tags: Blogroll, Gaming, Entertainment, "Constructive" Criticism, Observation, Ben Fritz, Brian Crecente, GameDaily, Jerry Holkins

"I Am Jack's Smirking Revenge": Games as Expression and Performance

mtvernon wrote 10 months ago: Play. What is it, exactly? Let’s make this an “according to Webster’s”-styl … more →

Tags: Blogroll, Entertainment, Essay, Gaming, , Poetry, Valve, Valve Corporation, ubisoft

Can they dig it? How games are like jazz

Mike wrote 10 months ago: A while ago Michael Abbott wrote about the difficulty he had trying to evangelize Braid to his frien … more →

Tags: braid

Braid's promise, and its broken promises

Mike wrote 11 months ago: More Braid! Hey, when you’re trying to follow critical analysis of games, a title like this … more →

Tags: Reviews Worth a Read, Tackling Narrative, 1up, braid, Chris Dahlen, Jonathan Blow, Keith Boesky, Nuck Suttner, The Onion

"Storytime for the rest of us."2 comments

mtvernon wrote 11 months ago: Lately, many games writers have been striving to define what Brainy Gamer Michael Abbott terms … more →

Tags: Blogroll, Gaming, Microsoft Xbox 360, Libraries, Entertainment, manifesto, 1up, Insult Swordfighting, popmatters

The Brainy Gamer's narrative "manifesto" 4 comments

Mike wrote 11 months ago: Michael Abbott at the Brainy Gamer connected few thoughtful dots recently when he excerpted several … more →

Tags: Something's Different, Tackling Narrative, Narrative, Design

Games Empower Learners: Gee’s Speech at GLS4

John Rice wrote 1 year ago: James Paul Gee over at Arizona State is renowned among educational gamers because he wrote what is w … more →

Tags: Game Discussion, Theory, Video Game Research, Serious Games, game studies, Second-Life, Educational Conferences, World of Warcraft, Sims


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