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Videogames are important cultural and economic artifacts. They also present challenges that anticipate the problems inherent in any complex digital interactive system. Not only are they digital and hence very difficult to preserve but they also are software systems that have significant hardware, peripheral, and network dependencies, which are difficult to collect and formally represent. This article reviews the literature related to videogame preservation. In addition to covering the traditional technology-related issues inherent in all digital preservation endeavors, this review also attempts to describe the complexities and relationships between the traditional acts of technology preservation, representation, and collection development. Future work should include the identification of important user groups, an examination of games' context of use, and the development of representational models to describe interaction of players with the game and the interactions between players playing the game.

tee-hee - cheap 'n' easy journalism

Did the writer just snarf bad Amazon reviews? Nice work if you can get it.

Indeed. Fascinating to see the negative press, too.

I liked the NPR review of the reviewers: http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2010/08/12/129150813/-scott-pilgrim-versus-the-unfortunate-tendency-to-review-the-audience It is good to be reminded once in awhile that gaming is still considered "lowbrow" and only for 12 year old boys to the uninformed. God knows I love me some elitism, but only when it is justified.

Yes, the disdain for gaming is still powerful. This movie is getting good reviews, generally. But is it doing badly at the box office?

Says 11+ for audience, but review is very promising

Book review for "Extra Lives" by Tom Bissell.  I wouldn't say that "beat Red Dead Redemption" should be on the list, but I don't disagree with adding Bioshock.

Good catch, Vicky. The book's on my stack.

games might involve a lot of effort, but the payoff is that "effort is always rewarded".

Very good to see. Are we at the early early early adopter phase of gamification in .edu?

Puzzle game, inside a person's head/dreams who is paralyzed. Review is here http://gambit.mit.edu/updates/2011/08/award-winning_game_explores_pu.php

Anything that can be tracked can be gamified. Shoot me now

Do I get extra points for a headshot?

Depauw's Harry Brown works with kids and gaming in Pittsburgh. Go Harry!

Well it sounds like from the review that this is pretty uninspired. But it does raise an interesting design question, namely "what kind of game mechanics would prompt calls of 'great game' by regular Bible readers/users?" That is, how could designers approach this problem in a way that would invite players to experience the stories in the Bible interactively? Or maybe that's over-simplifying a complex cultural issue, and there really isn't a way to do this without having it come across as trite because "the Bible" is too multivalent in contemporary society.

Nice find, it's hard to find games that deal with religion at all. I sent it on to Andrea

"What is gaming's future? Sony's betting that they have a pretty good idea, as shown with the new portable gaming device, the PSP Go. Not only is the PSP Go slimmer, lighter and thinner than its predecessor, the PSP, but it can also play movies, connect to the PS3 and has Bluetooth capability. Most importantly, the PSP Go is the first game console to abandon conventional media. "

Who has played with a Go? I've heard mixed reviews.