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13 Apr

Reaching to the crowds

Reaching to the crowds

Crowd-sourced game development: The next big thing?

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Pop Culture, Video Games
Tags: Art, bits, blogging, chris anderson, development, game, gaming, hand eye society, homebrew, indie, online, video games, wired
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17 Jan

User farming

User farming

As community becomes more vital to the success of web journalism, it’s important that sites don’t take advantage of users’ contributions to content.

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Uncategorized
Tags: blogging, community, condundrum, gaming, information, information wants to be free, Internet, video games
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13 Nov

All play, no work: Gamercamp v 1.0

All play, no work: Gamercamp v 1.0

Why you should send the kids to Gamercamp: an interview with co-organizer Mark Rabo.

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Art, Pop Culture, Technology, Video Games
Tags: Art, fiction, Gamercamp, gaming, hand eye society, IGDA, information, interactive, Internet, mario, Mark Rabo, online, programming, sound, Toronto, video games
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12 Oct

Dear sports fans: Get the fuck off my lawn.

Dear sports fans: Get the fuck off my lawn.

Why sports fans and gaming don’t mix.

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Art, Pop Culture, Video Games
Tags: Art, console war, gaming, graphics, information, madden, soulja boy, sports, sports fans, subjectivity, video games, xbox
Comments: 3

02 Oct

Generation gap

Generation gap

Poets need to move on to new mediums to deliver their messages to our generation.

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Art, Human Rights, Literature, Pop Culture, Video Games
Tags: argosin, Call of Duty, gaming, grand theft auto, holocaust, Human Rights, information, information wants to be free, Internet, mario, Movies, narrative, new media, poetry, poets, video games
Comments: 2

12 Sep

The Beatles: Rock Band as historiographic metafiction

The Beatles: Rock Band as historiographic metafiction

Harmonix’s latest interactive music game offers a heavily stylized retelling of a band’s history – but is it any less valuable than any other “real” historical reference?

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Art, Literature, Video Games
Tags: Art, fiction, Games, Harmonix, historiographic metafiction, history, information, narrative, Rock Band, subjectivity, the beatles, video games
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27 Aug

Netardation

Netardation

How our constant, uninterrupted access to information and leisure is retarding our mental development. And killing us.

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Pop Culture, Technology
Tags: byrds, cyberpunk, huxley, informaiton, information wants to be free, Internet, leisure, postman, video games
Comments: 3

20 Aug

Everybody Hertz: Jim Munroe on indie gaming

Everybody Hertz: Jim Munroe on indie gaming

Author, comic book writer and sometime award-winning videogame creator Jim Munroe talks about the wonderful world of independent games.

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Art, Literature, Movies, Music, Pop Culture, Technology, Video Games
Tags: arcade, artsy games incubator, corporate, everybody dies, freeconomics, Games, hand eye society, indie, jim munroe, metanet, nanobots, no media kings, queasy games, retro, savoir faire, sword of my mouth, Toronto, ubisoft toronto, video games, zombie cow
Comments: 6

11 Aug

Fight Night gamic

Fight Night gamic

My first foray into gamics – a merging of comics and videogames.

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Art, Pop Culture, Video Games
Tags: alec baldwin, chuck norris, comic, condundrum, fight night, game, Games, gamic, humour, kanye west, narrative, video games
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07 Aug

Gaming with the Formalists Part II: New Games Journalism

Gaming with the Formalists Part II: New Games Journalism

Should videogame criticism be more about the gamer than the game?

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Art, Journalism, Video Games
Tags: always black, bow nigger, Cleanth Brooks, cyberpunk, eve online, jedi knight II, jim rossignol, Journalism, kieron gillen, new games journalism, planeside, ste curran, subjectivity, the formalist critics, the great scam, this gaming life, tom chick, video games
Comments: 4

23 Jul

A call of duty to video games

A call of duty to video games

Why Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five shows us that we need a Call of Duty: POW.

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Literature, Video Games
Tags: books, Call of Duty, Games, narrative, POW, Slaughterhouse Five, video games, Vonnegut
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