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    <title>rotational » The Mechanic - Alex Wiltshire</title>
    <dc:date>2016-07-22T11:56:01+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Alex's column on game mechanics is one of my favourite new RPS features - they're all cracking, and a good example of understanding games by going to the source, rather than guessing - and also highlighting the fact that games are made by *people*, not just conjured out of thin air. Really good stuff.]]></description>
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    <title>Creative Restriction and The New Realism - Front Page - Magical Wasteland</title>
    <dc:date>2013-08-23T16:32:59+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This is not to say that real human interactions are not ritualized to the point of mechanic in some ways, but that procedural rhetoric about human life nearly always makes a specific argument: life works this way, life works that way. Counter to this, Gone Home eschews systems; in particular, it avoids systemizing anything about its characters. Instead of portraying the characters themselves, or providing a set of interactions with those characters, it presents instead a series of artifacts from the characters’ lives without trying to build mechanics around them. The family is only present through those artifacts, the shapes and shadows each member leaves behind. In a certain sense, you could say that the game sets its sights low. But it also hits its mark extremely well– and by doing so achieves something greater than a reductive mechanical take on those same characters ever could. Gone Home is not intended from the top down to be “a game about life”, as some ham-handed experiments have been– instead, it simply represents or evokes certain lives very well (and therefore naturally becomes about life). The game allows its characters to exist on a plane that we usually reserve for ourselves." This is a fine paragraph from a very astute take on Gone Home; for someone who talks so much about games as systemic media, it's good to be reminded so eloquently of all their other qualities I'm prone to forgetting.]]></description>
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    <title>On Endings - Kill Screen</title>
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    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There’s still a smell of bullshit to almost every videogame story I read, even as it’s advanced to a very high level being in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. To me it derives from this politeness about the thing that’s experienced. In literary criticism there are really cutting deconstructions of things that are inadequate—Nabokov talking about what a fraud and charlatan Faulkner was—but there’s this really intelligent, but painfully milquetoast, quality to the way we appreciate games. It’s a reflection of how partially engaged we are with each one. We consider games primarily as ideas, rather than actual evolving relationships that we’ve had over time." Yeah, that. I enjoyed this discussion: I'm pretty sure you don't have to finish games to review them. Then again: I also think writing about games six months after they came out is way more interesting than trying to hammer through something to fit into a review cycle.]]></description>
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    <title>The IF Theory Reader | The Gameshelf</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-02T11:03:51+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["So is it worth reading dusty IF history? Well, I haven't read it yet. But I can say that the book really represents a tour through the past ten years of the IF community's thinking. Some of the essays are from 2001; some have been revised for this edition; some are brand-new. Many have been published in other forms, so if you've been devouring our blog posts and essays for the past few years, you will see few surprises. But if your awareness of IF dates from the last century -- or if you've been following us only casually -- I think this book has something to offer."]]></description>
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    <title>In Print: KillScreen | ben abraham dot net</title>
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    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["To apply the same point to videogames, ‘we’ are exceptionally good at the analytic mode and extremely poor at the rhetorical persuasion. As a cohort, we’re remarkably analytical. There are not many writers, bloggers, critics, etc of videogames who are either committed to the persuasive communication of the veracity of their feelings, moods, and strange hunches about videogames, but there sure is a lot of people willing to point out the textual or dramaturgical features of XYZ latest game." This, many, many times over. It's one reason I tire of so much wordy criticism at the moment: it is exhaustive, but lacks direction. (This, for me, was the gap between my first years at university and my final year: finding the courage to make my own arguments, rather than just synthesizing everything around me).
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    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In cinema and theater, we often hear about method acting, a technique by which actors try to create the situations, emotions, and thoughts of their characters in themselves in order to better portray them. In creating Cow Clicker, I rather felt that I was partaking of method design, embracing the spirit and values and ideals of the social game developer as I toed the lines between theory, satire, and earnestness." Bogost calls it Method Design; I've been describing it as "systemic satire" - the making of satirical mechanics.
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    <title>Fullbright: Quick Hits 2</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-24T19:02:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://fullbright.blogspot.com/2010/04/quick-hits-2.html</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For instance, when a film critic with a Twitter account says that video games are not art, the natural followup becomes, "Well then... what is art?" And suddenly we're in some goddamn flourescent-lit student lounge, sitting on a nine-dollar couch across from a dude whose shirt is self-consciously spattered with daubs of encaustic, hip-to-hip with the girl who stamped each page of a copy of The Feminine Mystique with an ink print of her own labia, hearing the guy over our shoulder mention Duchamp for the sixth time this week, and it all just needs to stop right now." Well said, Steve.
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    <title>Are Games Design? | Edge Online</title>
    <dc:date>2010-01-07T12:18:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.edge-online.com/blogs/are-games-design</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I tend to see them as having much more in common with the approach of an architect or landscape designer in terms of shaping and creating flows, confluences and possibilities for enjoyment... As a result I really do think that critical appreciation and commentary from the world of architecture and design could be illuminating and progressive." Jones on the lack of perception - outside games criticism - of games as design objects (rather than media objects). It is excellent; I agree with it all.
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    <title>Fullbright: The middle child at peace</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-22T22:18:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://fullbright.blogspot.com/2009/11/middle-child-at-peace.html</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["...maybe this is the best of both worlds. An audience that, having crossed the barriers to entry, is by its nature more invested in our work; a public profile by which we have the means to occasionally reach into the mass consciousness, but which affords us the freedom to continue experimenting with subject, form, and style; an industry which is truly international; which is capable of producing both multi-million dollar blockbusters and single-creator labors of love (and releasing both on the same platform); which manages to be neither too big nor too small, and is the more vital, unique and exhilarating for it. We are a medium for us, and while there are more and more of us every day, we'll never be for everyone. In a way, that's beautiful." I think Steve's about right.
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    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["...sometimes I fear our endless preoccupation with making the case for video games is self-defeating. It feels defensive and, at its worst, produces a kind of micro-culture obsession with analysis: a 24/7 bloggo-Twitter tilling and re-tilling of the same small plot of dirt. In this self-absorbed environment, each new game's worth is measured by its ability to move the needle on emergent narrative, artistic expression, genre refinement...or whatever criterion we're applying this week to prove games matter to people already convinced." Yes. Not the reason I've been taking a break from writing about it, but something that plays on my mind before I put fingers to keyboard.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>games writing criticism michaelabbott blogs navelgazing</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.etc.cmu.edu/etcpress/wellplayed1.0">
    <title>Well Played 1.0: Video Game, Value and Meaning | ETC-Press (Beta)</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-21T17:26:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.etc.cmu.edu/etcpress/wellplayed1.0</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Well Played is now out, and can be read online and purchased from Lulu. It's exactly the sort of thing I've wanted for a while - a reader for videogames, and for the actual experiential side of them - and it's got some great authors contributing pieces on a host of games. Worth your time, for sure.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>games writing reader stories books publishing analysis criticism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:7d4929c33b09/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/GregCostikyan/20090428/1278/Twiggy_Game_Will_Videogamings_Future_Look_Like_Boardgamings_Past.php">
    <title>Gamasutra: Greg Costikyan's Blog - Twiggy Game: Will Videogaming's Future Look Like Boardgaming's Past?</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-03T23:09:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/GregCostikyan/20090428/1278/Twiggy_Game_Will_Videogamings_Future_Look_Like_Boardgamings_Past.php</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Twiggy Game is a charming cultural object from a bygone era; it's also a stark representation of what went wrong with boardgames, and a stark warning for what can go wrong with games as a whole -- at least, if we fail to inculcate, in ourselves and in others who love games, an aesthetic that prizes something beyond the brand." Costikyan on the dangers of games having a 'lack of culture'.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture criticism gregcostikyan games writing history</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:a76a64dc1d97/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://blog.ihobo.com/2009/04/ten-game-development-vices-part-one.html">
    <title>ihobo: Ten Game Development Vices, Part One</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-29T12:24:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blog.ihobo.com/2009/04/ten-game-development-vices-part-one.html</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this piece, each of the departments involved in making a videogame are examined and accused of one particular vice. In making these assessments, the assumption behind each is that the purpose of the videogames industry is to make games that players want to play, and not to make the games that developers want to play." It is good, and I'm looking forward to the second part.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>development games industry criticism difficult casual mainstream budget</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:ee1558f898be/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://versusclucluland.blogspot.com/2009/04/against-my-better-judgement-i-discuss.html">
    <title>Versus CluClu Land: Against my Better Judgement, I Discuss Citizen Kane and Maybe Art</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-22T15:40:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://versusclucluland.blogspot.com/2009/04/against-my-better-judgement-i-discuss.html</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The problem with all this is that we're asking the wrong question. The “are games art?” question is boring...
The interesting question, to me, is what /kind/ of art games are. That is, we should be asking ourselves what kind of formal dynamics and pleasures are inherent in the medium, and be able to identify when these formal capacities are used well." Sensible, rationally thought out, and also a reminder as to /why/ Kane is used as a benchmark. "Command of formal capacities" is an important phrase.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>art videogames criticism games iroquoispliskin writing citizenkane</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://cruiseelroy.net/2009/04/braid/">
    <title>Cruise Elroy » The game that was a book</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-21T06:59:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://cruiseelroy.net/2009/04/braid/</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["As I tried to unravel Braid’s interstitial text I realized that solving the puzzles and understanding the text required very similar approaches. Their concealed machinations and thematic ambiguities are teased out using the same mental processes, and are part of the same overarching search for meaning. In a way, I was “reading” everything in the game. It’s not the unification of narrative and gameplay that we’ve come to expect, but it’s a refreshing and effective one." Dan Bruno has an interesting perspective on Braid; not sure I agree with it entirely, but the feelings he describes are certainly familiar.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>games braid literature writing criticism exploration comprehension</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:4e43c736107e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.etc.cmu.edu/etcpress/?q=node/232">
    <title>Well Played - Forthcoming: 2009 | ETC-Press (Beta)</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-02T09:26:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.etc.cmu.edu/etcpress/?q=node/232</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The goal of this book is to help develop and define a literacy of games as well as a sense of their value as an experience. Video games are a complex medium that merits careful interpretation and insightful analysis. By inviting contributors to look closely at specific video games and the experience of playing them, we hope to clearly show how games are well played." Looks fantastic - great selection of writers, great selection of titles, and what the games canon needs. More Like This, please!
]]></description>
<dc:subject>games writing books publishing criticism analysis experiential</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:8496ba0ff3a3/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://grandtextauto.org/2007/09/24/the-tell-tale-brick/">
    <title>Grand Text Auto » The Tell-Tale Brick</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-27T21:38:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://grandtextauto.org/2007/09/24/the-tell-tale-brick/</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This is not a book about the VCS, nor breakout, nor video games and video game culture; it is a chronicle of the experience of that entity we might call “the player.” Oddly, there is little I can take from it in terms of approaches to video gaming or thoughts on the VCS Breakout. But it did enlarge my perspective and help me think about physiological, cognitive, and, let us say, monomaniacal aspects of video game play. Nervous, very dreadfully nervous Sudnow has been, but why would I say that he is mad?" Sudnow passed away very recently; I really ought to read his book, more than ever.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>games writing criticism books arcade davidsurnow ethnography breakout</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:541ee38003e5/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://my.opera.com/noisewar/blog/2009/01/20/white-on-white">
    <title>white on white - By Lorenzo Wang</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-29T19:06:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://my.opera.com/noisewar/blog/2009/01/20/white-on-white</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["So why not embrace it? That's why You Have To Burn The Rope is fantastic... for games to become art there must be an awareness and a conversation with its own history. Film, music, and literary critic call this allusion, but for the creators, this isn't just a word, it's a dialogue. Which means it should invite participants. For me, I'm far more intrigued by stop-motion artist Patrick Boivin's attempt at turning a linked sequence of videos into Youtube Street Fighter." I'm not sure I agree with Wang on YHTBTR, specifically, but this paragraph is reasonably sensible.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>games criticism culture historiography dialogue</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:c80284bd062e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://subjectnavigator.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/mapping-the-brainysphere/">
    <title>Mapping the Brainysphere: 29 blogs switched-on gamers should read « Subject Navigator</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-02T14:02:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://subjectnavigator.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/mapping-the-brainysphere/</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Lots of good stuff in here, and, indeed, most of the blogs I started following this year. Somewhat flattered to have snuck in myself. It's a great starting point if you're interested in the games-crit-o-sphere, and nice that representative posts have been pulled out from each blog.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>games criticism blogging blogs</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:dd654a7202d4/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n01/lanc01_.html">
    <title>LRB · John Lanchester: Is it Art?</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-20T22:28:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n01/lanc01_.html</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Lanchester writing about games, from the point of view of a smart person who's actually played the games he described. I certainly don't agree with all his points, but I don't disagree with them all, and he's not mouthing off: he's making smart connections and indicating more than a passing familiarity with the medium. Might write a tad more on this.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>games writing culture criticism art lrb johnlanchester</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://kotaku.com/5109708/maggie-has-left-the-tower">
    <title>Farewell: Maggie Has Left the Tower</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-15T10:20:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://kotaku.com/5109708/maggie-has-left-the-tower</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Bye, Maggie Greene. You made Kotaku a much, much better place, and you'll be missed. After your sabbatical, please get back to writing about games somewhere.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>games writing criticism blogs kotaku maggiegreene</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://versusclucluland.blogspot.com/2008/12/essential-jargon-procedural-rhetoric.html">
    <title>Versus CluClu Land: Essential Jargon: Procedural Rhetoric</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-12T14:22:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://versusclucluland.blogspot.com/2008/12/essential-jargon-procedural-rhetoric.html</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What I like about the rhetoric idea is that it places the accent on how the work operates on the player, and this is essential for an interactive medium. What I don't like is that it's a resolutely utilitarian framework for critical analysis: it focuses in on the way that games might change our opinions for good or ill at the expense of the way games might transport, entertain, humiliate, and ravish their users." Pliskin on Bogost's Procedural Rhetoric; both the post and its comments are smart, nuanced discussion around the idea.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>games criticism rhetoric ianbogost iroquoispliskin proceduralrhetoric</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.snappygamer.com/2008/12/02/the-problem-with-games-journalism-part-one/">
    <title>The Problem with Games Journalism: Part One | Snappy Gamer</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-08T00:22:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.snappygamer.com/2008/12/02/the-problem-with-games-journalism-part-one/</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The comments thread on this is pretty epic, and I'm really not wading into that one. Suffice to say: it's quite a while before somebody mentions the word "criticism", and it's not in the main body of the article at all. That's the important word, to my mind.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>games writing criticism journalism rant misguided</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:61d60d2a83b5/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://versusclucluland.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-death-mother-of-beauty.html">
    <title>Versus CluClu Land: Is Death the Mother of Beauty?</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-04T08:33:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://versusclucluland.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-death-mother-of-beauty.html</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Prince of Persia isn't Ninja Gaiden, and this is OK, because it's not aiming for the same tension-filled experience. It's a game that wants to be lyrical. It wants to be an musical instrument rather than a crucible, and it succeeds in this goal." Point taken. I might end up giving the Prince a chance, when my current crop of challenge-heavy games is worn down.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>games princeofpersia ubisoft criticism iroquoispliskin stylisation lyricism</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://savetherobot.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/games-are-software/">
    <title>Games are Software « Save the Robot - Chris Dahlen</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-02T23:12:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://savetherobot.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/games-are-software/</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I come from a software background, as well as an artsy-fartsy one. I want to see games as art, but they’re also supposed to work as logically-constructed bodies of code. And in a lot of cases, reviewers need to see them as software rather than as art. Here’s why..." I think Steve has some good points here, but I'm not totally swung yet; after all, games might _be_ software, but do we _experience_ them as software? I'm not sure that we do, and that's why we respond to them in the manner we do.
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<dc:subject>games software criticism review development stevegaynor</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/42315">
    <title>A Consequence of Action | Gamers With Jobs</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-01T12:28:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/42315</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The obstacles that exist are mere impediments to my motion, puzzles placed only to slow me down or stop my free-flow kinetic improvisation. No time to think or overanylize, only time enough to move. This is what the essence of gaming should feel like: a sincere, wholehearted attachment to the action (or actions) that one sets into play. It is a moment where the motivation at hand is intention only, whose aim is exploration and discovery, refined. It is the escape, distilled and realized." GWJ on Mirror's Edge, and never rewinding, never looking back.
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<dc:subject>games criticism momentum motion mirrorsedge</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:df327fa43b95/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/blog/?p=41972">
    <title>gewgaw » Mirror’s Edge</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-30T14:57:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/blog/?p=41972</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["When the mechanics are broken there - no matter what great ingredients or designs you had - the dish disappoints. Execution is very much part of the analysis there - as is service, mis-en-scene. Food is never evluated (in the Guide Micheline sense) out of context… but the mechanics are fundamental to everything else." Robin Hunicke on another parallel to games criticism; I think she might be onto something, and it's another good contribution to the mound of Mirrors' Edge coverage.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>games criticism mirrorsedge robinhunicke food</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.game-ism.com/2008/11/24/just-what-is-innovation-really-worth/">
    <title>Just What is Innovation Really Worth?</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-24T09:58:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.game-ism.com/2008/11/24/just-what-is-innovation-really-worth/</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The point in pointing out these numbers, since we’re throwing out analogies to films and videogame innovation, is that it seems that no matter how well a movie is interpreted as “innovative” by a reviewer, the truest mark of success lies in its ability to inure itself with the consumer." No. Commercial success is just one kind of success, and films like Eraserhead have had a far greater impact on young filmmakers than any amount of box-office smashes. The real rarities are films such as the Godfather or Citizen Kane, which manage to be box-office smashes and innovative masterpiece.
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<dc:subject>wrong criticism innovation success games films movies reviews</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2008/nov/14/gameculture-playstation1">
    <title>Keith Stuart: Do game reviewers really understand innovation? | Technology | guardian.co.uk</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-23T18:42:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2008/nov/14/gameculture-playstation1</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The 'better sequel' mentality is damaging both to the games industry and to the quality of games journalism. It is a deferral of critical responsibility, a patronising pat on the head for the developer who dared to dream and fell short in some mythically vital way. I don't want to be frustrated by dodgy controls either, but then I'm willing to blunder through if I'm going to get an experience I never had before." And this is why I've been sticking with it; I think Keith is on the right lines with this quotation.
]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://curmudgeongamer.com/2008/11/review-mirrors-edge.html">
    <title>Curmudgeon Gamer: Review: Mirror's Edge</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-21T10:10:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://curmudgeongamer.com/2008/11/review-mirrors-edge.html</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A man can only eat so many cheap sniper shots, so many deaths by machine gun from over 75 meters away, so many attempts at a final tricky jump to a tiny ledge across a giant gap, so many degrading restarts... Sometimes I hate games so very much." Sadly, much of this is pretty true.
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<item rdf:about="http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2008/11/opinion_fallout_3_escape_from.php">
    <title>GameSetWatch - Opinion: Fallout 3 - Escape From Vault 101</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-18T17:58:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2008/11/opinion_fallout_3_escape_from.php</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Fallout 3 is a tribute to intent. It's not a rallying cry for any cause or even a cautionary tale about the hypothetical horrors of nuclear holocaust. It's a statement on the worthlessness of inaction. It's about not staying in the vault."
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<dc:subject>vault fallout3 games writing bethesda criticism</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://chrisremo.com/bloggin/2008/10/30/far-cry-2s-slow-burn/#more-172">
    <title>Far Cry 2's slow burn | Procedural Dialogue</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-18T17:56:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://chrisremo.com/bloggin/2008/10/30/far-cry-2s-slow-burn/#more-172</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Far Cry 2 doesn’t so much attempt to define a memorable experience and effectively communicate it to the player as it does to define a set of rules and an environment in which memorable experiences are likely to happen, letting the player loose in that world." One of my favourite pieces of writing on FC2, if only because it captures the nature of the game so well.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>farcry2 criticism games emergent openworld</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.brainygamer.com/the_brainy_gamer/2008/11/tip-of-the-iceberg.html">
    <title>The Brainy Gamer: The big ignore</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-16T22:25:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.brainygamer.com/the_brainy_gamer/2008/11/tip-of-the-iceberg.html</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["...in recent years, [the stage has] moved away from those practices. Today, we better understand the importance of offering kids the very best we can do. They are no different from the rest of us. They respond positively to quality, and they quickly grow bored and restless with mediocrity... We might consider a similar approach to video games. If we want our kids - heck, if we want all of us - to enjoy quality games, we must pay attention to and promote those games that deliver quality."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>children entertainment games art quality criticism michaelabbott</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2008/11/on_pixelvixen707_brinkvale_ins.php">
    <title>GameSetWatch - On PixelVixen707, Brinkvale Insane Asylum, &amp; Slow Burn ARG Craziness</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-16T22:25:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2008/11/on_pixelvixen707_brinkvale_ins.php</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Wow. Ever get the feeling you've been thrown for a loop? I did just that, when I worked out that GSW commenter and erudite game blogger, PixelVixen707, appears to be not just a smart game blogger, but a fictitious front for some kind of damn weird ARG/online story." Down the rabbit hole we go, again.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>arg criticism games writing rabbithole journalism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:245667a6fc53/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://drgamelove.blogspot.com/2008/10/hockings-masterpiece.html">
    <title>SLRC: Hocking's Masterpiece</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-08T13:18:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://drgamelove.blogspot.com/2008/10/hockings-masterpiece.html</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Far Cry 2 is about you and death. Of course every single person you meet wants to kill you. Of course you spend about as much time fighting the environment as other persons. Of course you are clinging to the barest scrap of health and well-being; Even the malaria is trying to kill you."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>farcry2 games criticism critique clinthocking</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:5cc922e7ea85/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://conference2009.ludicine.ca/">
    <title>Presentation | Thinking After Dark</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-07T23:25:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://conference2009.ludicine.ca/</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The international conference “Thinking After Dark: Welcome to the World of Horror Video Games” unites scholars who all study a corpus that has been left out up to now: horror video games. Considering the relatively slow progress of generic studies among the recent surge of academic interest towards video games, this event represents a major first step."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>academic academia conference horror survival games criticism survivalhorror</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:c97551d03301/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.brainygamer.com/the_brainy_gamer/2008/10/the-conundrum-of-play.html">
    <title>The Brainy Gamer: The problem with play</title>
    <dc:date>2008-10-12T11:59:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.brainygamer.com/the_brainy_gamer/2008/10/the-conundrum-of-play.html</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["But these arguments aren't getting us anywhere because the problem isn't the games. The problem is the _play_. When we engage with games, we _play_ with them. We don't read them; we don't attend them; we don't view them in a gallery. We _play_ them. And that's a big problem."
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<dc:subject>games play criticism workethic culture media</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:64d2f80fa83a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://versusclucluland.blogspot.com/2008/10/limits-of-escapism.html">
    <title>Versus CluClu Land: The Limits of Escapism</title>
    <dc:date>2008-10-11T16:30:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://versusclucluland.blogspot.com/2008/10/limits-of-escapism.html</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This is the challenge, it seems to me: it's to do with the tools of design-- rules and states-- what other media do with images and sound: reveal the world as seen through different eyes, with lapidary clarity and moral courage. And this means moving beyond merely empowering and entertaining the player."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>iroquoispliskin escapism play games media art criticism entertainment story narrative</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:19ad66d6a772/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/09/19/rps-verdict-spore/">
    <title>RPS Verdict: Spore | Rock, Paper, Shotgun</title>
    <dc:date>2008-09-19T15:11:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/09/19/rps-verdict-spore/</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This is something I said about Spore a while back, actually. I thought Spore could be a little like what Understanding Comics is to Comics. As in something from the form which uses the form to explain the form." Oh, I like that as an idea. He can be a smart one at times, that Gillen.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>criticism tutorial discussion games pc spore</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://insultswordfighting.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-taxonomy-of-gamers-table-of.html">
    <title>Insult Swordfighting: A New Taxonomy of Gamers: Table of Contents</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-31T14:28:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://insultswordfighting.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-taxonomy-of-gamers-table-of.html</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The series "A New Taxonomy of Gamers" wrapped up last Friday. For your convenience, here are the links to all 11 parts in one convenient post." Oh, this looks good.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>games theory play criticism taxonomy design players</dc:subject>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/t:taxonomy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/t:design"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.brainygamer.com/the_brainy_gamer/2008/08/im-discussing-b.html">
    <title>The Brainy Gamer: Wrapping up the Braid conversation</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-31T14:05:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.brainygamer.com/the_brainy_gamer/2008/08/im-discussing-b.html</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The negative side of this, as your experience illustrates, is that Braid just lacks any immediate sense of fun. It does not set out to entertain you, and with the exception of some pretty aesthetic moments it makes you earn the pleasure you take from it. (Portal, which makes for a good point of comparison, wants the player to like it and desires to be understood in a way that Braid does not.)" I think Pliskin is spot on, here
]]></description>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:3af061033822/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/t:play"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://pats-quinade.livejournal.com/125004.html">
    <title>Patsquinade - How my not-great plot happened: a mini post-mortem</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-31T13:41:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://pats-quinade.livejournal.com/125004.html</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["An interesting article at Rock, Paper, Shotgun tackles BioWare's tackling of issues tackling modern society, tackling one of my Mass Effect plots in the process. I responded in the comments, and after looking at how much I yammered on, I figured it was worth posting here as a look inside how these things get into the game, and why some things that seem dumb get done." Patrick Weekes follows up the RPS post criticising his own plot elements with some frank self-criticism, and some interesting explanations; a reminder of how hard creating any kind of meaningful choice can be.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>rockpapershotgun writing games masseffect bioware criticism postmortem plot story narrative choice</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:9cb6f642228e/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/t:masseffect"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/08/11/hair-pulling-and-braid-weaving/">
    <title>Feministe » Hair-pulling and braid-weaving</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-26T21:52:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/08/11/hair-pulling-and-braid-weaving/</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It seems to me that Tim and the nameless characters of the epilogue represent archetypes of some kind. They don’t stand in for every man and woman, certainly, but they’re emblematic of a certain kind of dysfunctional relationship, one where “I’ll protect you” turns into “I’ll control you.”" A smart, sharp reading of Braid, that understands its gameiness.
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:4e2528329c2d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://fullbright.blogspot.com/2008/08/quick-critique-braid.html">
    <title>Fullbright: Quick Critique: Braid</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-25T19:56:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://fullbright.blogspot.com/2008/08/quick-critique-braid.html</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I don't begrudge Blow an attempt at addressing important historical events, but the weight of the atomic age seems too much to address with a few lines of text that feel incongruous with the rest of the production." This is, I think, a worthwhile point. I'll be returning to the whole "atomic bomb" question in a blogpost soon, I hope.
]]></description>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:5628e44f8181/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=205102">
    <title>Braid Review // Xbox 360 /// Eurogamer</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-06T10:27:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=205102</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the context of Braid's melancholy mood, [the classic Mario quotation] becomes a bona fide commentary on the human condition. Our princess is always in another castle." Braid exists. Braid is real. Dan Whitehead's review is very good.
]]></description>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:c6964d686d5c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://versusclucluland.blogspot.com/2008/07/trash-art-and-games.html">
    <title>Versus CluClu Land: Trash, Art, and the Games</title>
    <dc:date>2008-07-30T10:06:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://versusclucluland.blogspot.com/2008/07/trash-art-and-games.html</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["...the price of acquitting ourselves of the charge of infantilism is the disavowal of what is vital and compelling about the games themselves." Pliskin on applying Pauline Kael's criticisms of film criticism to games.
]]></description>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:605c9bf83f6d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://versusclucluland.blogspot.com/2008/07/o-tempora-o-mores-pt-1.html">
    <title>Versus CluClu Land: O Tempora! O Mores! (pt. 1)</title>
    <dc:date>2008-07-22T16:44:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://versusclucluland.blogspot.com/2008/07/o-tempora-o-mores-pt-1.html</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["...arguments of this exact form have been raised against nearly every distinctly modern art form." Barber's book sounds interesting, if flawed. Pliskin's criticism is, as ever, good. It's getting exhausting linking to him.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture criticism consumption consumerism writing marxism benjaminbarber games play childishness society</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:35dc54942d54/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://versusclucluland.blogspot.com/2008/07/gamers-are-maximizers-of-utility.html">
    <title>Versus CluClu Land: Gamers are Maximizers of Utility</title>
    <dc:date>2008-07-21T15:55:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://versusclucluland.blogspot.com/2008/07/gamers-are-maximizers-of-utility.html</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I thought this decision to attach a reward to the choice represented a failure of nerve on the part of the designers ... wedding a gameplay-reward to a decision that ought be governed by one's sense of character and motivation."
]]></description>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:25ee67c3918d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://clicknothing.typepad.com/click_nothing/2007/10/ludonarrative-d.html">
    <title>Click Nothing: Ludonarrative Dissonance in Bioshock</title>
    <dc:date>2008-07-20T18:42:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://clicknothing.typepad.com/click_nothing/2007/10/ludonarrative-d.html</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["By throwing the narrative and ludic elements of the work into opposition, the game seems to openly mock the player for having believed in the fiction of the game at all."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>games story criticism narrative bioshock storytelling interaction play design</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:1c81d310626d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://versusclucluland.blogspot.com/2008/07/final-exam.html">
    <title>Versus CluClu Land: The Final Exam</title>
    <dc:date>2008-07-13T08:52:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://versusclucluland.blogspot.com/2008/07/final-exam.html</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The capacity to convey narrative through interaction is a constitutive rather than accidental feature of the medium. Every time a designer exploits this ability we get closer to finding [...] what forms of expression are unique to games..."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>games criticism narrative story art expression</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:f6cc88712f31/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121460385251911957.html?mod=2_1168_1">
    <title>'Grand,' but No 'Godfather' - WSJ.com</title>
    <dc:date>2008-07-10T22:11:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121460385251911957.html?mod=2_1168_1</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Junot Diaz on GTAIV in the Wall Street Journal. Excellent writing, on the nature of good vs. great and great vs. seminal; on what art does to us; on how it needs to go farther. Smart, engaged, written by someone who gets culture and who *plays*.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>junotdiaz criticism writing games play gaming gta gtaiv narrative art</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:2c003f6281a9/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/t:junotdiaz"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://kotaku.com/5018822/industry-apologetics-its-not-just-a-game">
    <title>Industry Apologetics: It's Not Just A Game</title>
    <dc:date>2008-07-06T20:49:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://kotaku.com/5018822/industry-apologetics-its-not-just-a-game</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["“It’s only a game” is a phrase that agrees with all of those who ever looked down their noses at the medium... who want to promote the kind of prejudice that will keep games from ever achieving widespread respect for everything they are."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>games play culture society writing criticism media kotaku mainstream</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:55849bd349d8/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.crispygamer.com/_GeneratedPages/Columns/Column937.aspx">
    <title>Crispy Gamer - Column: Print Screen: &quot;Dungeons &amp; Desktops&quot; and Writing Gaming History</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-29T21:26:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.crispygamer.com/_GeneratedPages/Columns/Column937.aspx</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["it's a shame that a book as significant and thorough as [this] isn't better than it is, a victim of poor editing, poor organization, and a frustrating inconsistency, as the book veers from true history to trite encyclopedia..."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>games rpgs criticism writing computer</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:ce22d9c10647/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.quartertothree.com/inhouse/news/438/">
    <title>Grand Theft Auto: Sentenced</title>
    <dc:date>2008-05-24T18:07:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.quartertothree.com/inhouse/news/438/</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I wish Rockstar had made a better game for Liberty City and I wish they had written a better story for Niko Bellic. Because these are two of the most memorable characters you'll meet in any videogame." A great piece of criticism.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>gtaiv criticism games play review</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:733464410429/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Gaming-Life-Travels-Cities/dp/0472116355/ref=sr_1_11/203-6004870-6995146?ie=UTF8">
    <title>Amazon.co.uk: This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities: Books: Jim Rossignol</title>
    <dc:date>2008-01-08T16:41:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Gaming-Life-Travels-Cities/dp/0472116355/ref=sr_1_11/203-6004870-6995146?ie=UTF8</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Wow. This looks great. Add to cart...
]]></description>
<dc:subject>games play criticism book writing</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:infovore/b:0029f4f86370/</dc:identifier>
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    <title>LRB | John Lanchester : Short Cuts</title>
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    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The banning of Manhunt 2 will prove to be a good thing if it helps companies like Rockstar to realise that the industry’s ambition should be the opposite of everyone else’s: to get off the front page and into the arts section.
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    <title>Feverish Mind v2: We need a Scott McCloud for games...</title>
    <dc:date>2005-02-09T14:01:38+00:00</dc:date>
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