Video games
USE GOOGLE TRANSLATE
DISCLAIMER This blog post is in Japanese, so when I used the title: ‘Use google translate’, I meant it, so please do! I will update this...
Continue reading...Apolitical games don’t exist
My favorite game: GTA San Andreas
Last week’s class was about videogames. When asked what the last game I played was, I replied with Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. This is also...
Continue reading...Video games as historical tool
As I am using these articles to explore the opportunities of several digital media for historians, I would like to focus today on the subject of...
Continue reading...Online personality cults
Your personality, your merch
You might enjoy video games, but did you know you can make a living out of playing them? This got me thinking, so I started investigating...
Continue reading...Cube World: A Personal Success And A Public Failure?
Back in early 2013, some friends and I were introduced to an upcoming ‘indie’ (independently developed) game called Cube World. It promised an open, procedurally generated...
Continue reading...The Impact of Rayman
My last prediction
For my last blog I want to make another prediction, with the simple reason that I came up with multiple predictions while preparing my presentation. With...
Continue reading...It’s leaking again
If you are someone who enjoys playing video games you are probably familiar with the feeling of excitement you get when a new game that looks...
Continue reading...Exploring diversity in video games
Digitalisation has created incredible and powerful dimensions in which human behaviours and cultural interpretations can be influenced and modified, but also innovative methods, through which the...
Continue reading...The team behind FIFA
FIFA is a widely popular series of video games, released yearly to millions of eager fans all around the world. Boasting exclusive licenses from football leagues...
Continue reading...“Mobile gaming isn’t gaming”
Last week at BlizzCon 2018, a gaming convention held by the video game developer Blizzard Entertainment, Blizzard Entertainment announced its newest game: ‘Diablo Immortal’. This announcement...
Continue reading...Get fit with Wii Fit
I like Pokémon Go. It forces me to go outside in order to play and I personally find that a good thing. A side effect of...
Continue reading...Doomed to fail?
This week I am going to predict something. When I wrote about Tamagotchis a few weeks back I talked about how companies utilize people’s feelings of...
Continue reading...Getting Fit with Pokémon Go
When it comes to video games there always seem to be these ideas and prejudices flying around that they make you lazy, aggressive, anti-social and more....
Continue reading...Blackwashing/whitewashing
No, this title is not referring to your laundry. It does refer to when people for instance use a white person to represent a black person...
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