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"formal avant-garde explores the essence of the videogame medium (e.g. action, procedurality, story) and that the political avant-garde challenges or critiques technoculture through the videogame form."

"Water Cooler Games served as the web's primary forum for "videogames with an agenda" - coverage of the uses of video games in advertising, politics, education, and other everyday activities, outside the sphere of entertainment. "

Fun to watch and listen to Torley, who "likes colorful lights and pulsating music. Herein lies one of his first forays into the wonderful world of AudioSurf!"

"The Dante here is no poet but a crusader - and a bloodbath ensues"

Fascinating commentaries about the sound design, composition and music purposes in World of Warcraft.

"Mark and Rose showed people the wild fun to be had attaching balloons to buses with Gary's Mod, and Davin invited people to draw their own videogame character which he then animated in front of their eyes"

"Don't play video games yet? Then it's time to get with the program - just try not to jab the console too hard"

Podcast about Gaming from Mothers that game and Might have kids that game too

Sadly in school, many so-called advantaged learners rarely get to operate at the edge of their regime of competence as they coast along in a curriculum that makes few real demands on them.

Phantom Compass founder Tony Walsh talks about his Second Life avatar and current projects with new-school virtual world reporter Draxtor Despres.

Just like playing world of warcraft - only better!

Industry needs skilled gaming professionals. Perhaps community college is the place to focus on skillsets.

The scientists' conclusion? "Whatever you've learned in the computer game does have an effect on how you behave toward the stimulus in the real world" says the leader of the study, Paul Fletcher. For those of you who play computer games on a regular basis

Recently my work has turned to the creation of "smart worlds" rather than games, worlds in which objects, tools, and the environment are co-learners with and mentors to humans. - James Paul Gee.

ENGAGE is a European Network for Growing Activity in Game-based learning in Education

(via @courosa) Inside Edition with an article about Nintendos big success in America. Filmed in 1988. This video has it all

In Games of Empire, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter offer a radical political critique of such video games and virtual environments as Second Life, World of Warcraft, and Grand Theft Auto, analyzing them as the exemplary media of Empire, the twenty-first-century hypercapitalist complex theorized by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. The authors trace the ascent of virtual gaming, assess its impact on creators and players alike, and delineate the relationships between games and reality, body and avatar, screen and street.

" In googling "Racism Resident Evil 5, "one of my first hits was this video on YouTube. Warning: sexist, heterosexist, and racist language!"