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Hylton Jolliffe writes "Hey, thought you might like a new blog we've just launched on gaming by RIT professor Andrew Phelps. He's going to be writing about a whole host of things: the gaming industry, the rapidly expanding user base, the role of gaming in the entertainment/media spectrum, the technology and standards that undergird today's games, the emerging social phenomena surrounding them, the future of wireless gaming, the study of gaming in academia, blah, blah, blah. Neat stuff and Andy's already in full stride - see this as a possible starting point."
...the emerging social phenomena surrounding them, the future of wireless gaming, the study of gaming in academia, blah, blah, blah
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"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
...can be found here.
gamegirladvance has been kicking around for some time now, and has provided a great combination of gaming news, personal stories, and theoretical discusisons.
Oh... right, you are talking about E.A. ... go on please ...
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I am continually encouraged to see how gaming is getting serious treatment in areas of academia and business.
While there are downsides to this attention, for the most part it is legitimizing the industry and will hopefully result in gaming have equal or greater importance than television and movies (and god, what a relief it would be to minimize the power and influence of those morons).
-Michael
Threshold RPG
Take everything from, like, 5 years ago and replace all instances of 'web' or 'internet' with 'blog'
hence:
We plan to leverage the power of the internet to transform our b2b infrastructure into a whole new paradigm...
transforms into:
We plan to blog the blog of the blog to blog our blog-2-blog blog into a whole new blog.
Which makes about as much sense.
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
There is a growing number of other sites that have the same goals in mind. here are a few of the one's I visit pretty regularly:
Probably my favorite is Gonzalo Frasca's Ludology.org.
Also occasionally of interest is Lars Konzack's Ludologica
Greg Costikyan's Games * Design * Art * Culture has gotten a fairly good amount of press.
and to toot my own horn, there is my blog Popular Culture Gaming.
http://www.popularculturegaming.com -- my blog about the culture of videogame players
Making a bunch of 30x30 sprites (and that would have been LARGE back "in the day") doesn't require the intervention of an artist.
Whoah! I have to disagree with you there. Artists entered the industry in the 8 bit days and were very much needed. "Programmer graphics" is a well-used insult. We may be able to draw 8*8 monochrome characters (e.g. text) but when you get up to 16*16 by 4 colours, you really need an artist, or an artist/programmer, not a straight "i can't draw for toffee" programmer like myself.
Even for icons in tools, artists make an improvement in looks (a specialist graphic designer might be even more useful).