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Here is my PhD progress blog/Actor-Network Theory notebook.
Here is my old blog about videogames, SLRC.
Here is my machinima novel, "Permanent Death".
Here is a list of some of the best videogame criticism of the past few years.
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Category Archives: Essays
The Tenor of Experience
I’ve had a kind of crazy idea for a while now that involves the nature of experience. I’m now quite convinced that experiences come in different varieties and flavours. Everyone has taken mind (or mood) altering drugs of some kind … Continue reading
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Zombies and Hip Hop
When I first saw this trailer for Hilltop Hood’s upcoming DVD release Parade of the Dead I wondered why no one had thought to do something like it sooner. The video seems to be a spoof of the zombie film … Continue reading
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“Replayability” is NOT a word, so stop using it idiot!
There’s a word that gets bandied about a bit when talking about playing a videogame for a second, third, fourth, or many more times. That word is “replayability”. If you’re not familiar with the word (chances are good if you’re … Continue reading
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Words I-V
This is a series of 5 “downloadable” blog posts that form what I’m calling “Words I-V” because each individual post is either Words 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5. Seems straightforward enough. The point of them at the time of … Continue reading
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The Judge’s Wig
I walked through the cool, dripping heart of a mountain today. It contained an inspiring number of caves filled with stunning white stalactites and stalagmites. A giant cathedral of a space easily 50m high, a room filled with an organ-like … Continue reading
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My Thesis in Three Minutes
There’s a young man living in Brisbane who wears a sweet hat, talks really fast and with his weekly videos critiquing and criticising videogames draws multiple millions of views from around the world. His name is Yahtzee, he’s a British-born … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Internet, Technology, Videogames
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Localism
I came across this picture/quote at the Archive Fire blog in a post entitled “nationalism is fascism“. Until quite recently I would have unquestionably agreed with the title and sentiment of the post– nationalism is so close as to be identical … Continue reading
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Essay: Unreliable
In the very first issue of the online Game Studies journal back in 2001, Markku Eskelinen noted that [here's a cached version if game studies is still down], In narratives and many other kinds of fiction it is acceptable and … Continue reading
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