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How Pac-Man Eats: Who is it for?

By Noah Wardrip-Fruin | Published: December 2, 2020

The first reviews have arrived for my new book, How Pac-Man Eats! I’m honored to have people giving the book careful attention. This book is aimed at a wide range of audiences (designers, journalists, technologists, scholars, students, and people who are simply interested in games) and aims to speak to multiple disciplines. Given that, it’s […]

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Current Game Preservation is Not Enough

By ekaltman | Published: June 6, 2016

(Portuguese translation, courtesy of Artur Weber) This post is a distillation of some current thoughts on game preservation (extending to software preservation) that arose from a presentation I gave at Stanford two weeks ago. Video of that talk is here. The discussion in this post is a little more advanced and focuses mainly on the […]

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Cecil Brown on Games Blacks Love to Play

By Chaim Gingold | Published: February 6, 2012

Dr. Cecil Brown began his lecture Games Blacks Love to Play by citing Marshall McLuhan’s 1964 observation that the games people play mirror the surrounding culture. Brown uses this stance—that games teach us about the culture they come from—to explore the history of African Americans, the interplay between black and white play cultures, and the […]

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Jessica Enevold, John Davison, and Damon Brown at UCSC this week

By Noah Wardrip-Fruin | Published: May 15, 2011

We have three great talks on games this week at UC Santa Cruz. All are free and open to the public. Please help spread the word! Monday Title: Mama Ludens vs Fanboi – What is wrong with the Gaming Revolution? Speaker: Jessica Enevold, Assistant Professor at Lund University, Sweden and Managing Editor for the journal […]

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Mining the World of Warcraft Armory

By Chris Lewis | Published: April 24, 2010

Many people have mined the World of Warcraft Armory for all sorts of information. Until recently, the data being mined out of the Armory was largely something I call “descriptive statistics”: statistics that are interesting in and of themselves, but don’t really require much more than counting up instances of labels. How many Orc hunters […]

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Starcraft EISbot in GamePro

By Chris Lewis | Published: April 14, 2010

Continuing the EIS blog’s recent Starcraft theme, Ben and Peter were recently interviewed by John Davison, editor of Gamepro, inspired after his visit to UCSC. The interview is now up on the front-page of Gamepro.com, with Davison tweeting: “Mind blown.”

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