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How to understand the Motivation behind Suicide Bombing – with Halo 3
If you want to put yourself in the position of a suicide bomber look no further than… Halo 3. Clive Thompson over at Wired explains that due him leading a normal life he just doesn’t have the time to improve his skills to keep up with homophobic teenagers around the world. In short: He sucks [...]
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Iran Releases Anti US/ Anti Israel Game
The Iranian government recently introduced the propaganda PC game Rescue the Nuke Scientist (the kind of name only a totalitarian regime can come up with…).
Reports Gamepolitics:
The PC game was created by the Union of Islamic Student Societies, a radical student group. It is said to be a riposte to Kuma Games’ Assault on Iran mission for its reality-based [...]
The World of Borecraft Pt.2
The World of Borecraft Pt.2
As a counterpoint to Justin Peter’s rather critical account of the serious game phenomenon over at Slate, Gamasutra takes a more sympathetic look at digital games with an agenda. In Who Says Video Games Have to be Fun? The Rise of Serious Games some major players in the field [...]
The World of Borecraft?
Justin Peters over at Slate takes a critical look at games that are trying to teach you something. And he has some interesting arguments:
In taking the fun out of video games, companies like Persuasive make them less alluring to people who love games and more alluring to people who don’t. Your boss, for example (…)I [...]
New York Times Publishes Newsgames
This is exactly what I’m talking about: Using the power and simulational nature of digital games to explain and comment on political processes and procedures. And now it reached the mainstream: The New York Times teamed up with Ian Bogost’s Persuasive Games to release a series of “newsgames”, a mixture of videogames and political cartoons:
Today, [...]
The Ethical Problems of Alternate Reality Gaming and Party Politics
This is Gaming 2.0 at its best:
World Without Oil is a month-long collaborative alternate reality project funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and ITVS. It’s the first alternate reality game to tackle a real-world problem: oil dependency.
World Without Oil imagines we are already living on the other side of the “peak oil” moment. The [...]
Gaming on the campaign trail
The last video game I bought was Ghost Recon Advance Warfighter for the Xbox 360: It scored rave reviews and can be bought for a cheap price. The first warning sign should have been the feeling of embarrassment that was slowly creeping up when I took it home with me on the bus. It actually [...]
The Ron Paul WoW March: Preaching to the Converted