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Spatial allegory in Final Fantasy XIII

Believe in Rogue

“The sounds of Pac-Man appealed to me, especially when the ghosts turned blue”

‘Shenmue’s rapt recreation of life’s humdrum interstices made an unprecedentedly rich ground for the moments of action and intrigue’

Let us play too!

(Losing is fun!)

‘The story ends – as no videogame has before – with a nationally televised meltdown in the vein of Network’

Three years as Tommy, CJ and Niko

(Tom Bissell: The Grammar of Fun)

‘Final Fantasy VII is the ultimate expression of Barthes’s writerly text…’

‘Final Fantasy VII is the ultimate expression of Barthes’s writerly text…’

‘Mass Effect 2 is stuck in its own dialectical trap…’

Video:

Jane McGonigal on how gaming can make a better world

That’s Militainment!

(Slideshow: War Games)

‘Cultural commentators who sideline video games aren’t doing their job and have no more reason on their side than the Victorian mamas who declared that novel-reading led to sexual incontinence and to vitiation of the brain.’

‘Cultural commentators who sideline video games aren’t doing their job and have no more reason on their side than the Victorian mamas who declared that novel-reading led to sexual incontinence and to vitiation of the brain.’

‘Video-game preservation is tricky…’

Life imitating Madden

Life imitating Madden

Duke Nukem Never

‘He showed me a TV set with just a white spot on the screen that he could control a little bit…’