I’ve kind of fallen behind in a lot of things in recent weeks and one of them has definitely been my posts on what it’s like to game with children. Not as in having children, but physically with a child. As we wait for the new Lego City Wii U game to release our Wii [...]
Archive for the ‘Games and Education’ Category
Play With Your Kids: Ni No Kuni: The Wrath of the White Witch
March 13th, 2013 
dr. b. 
Posted in Games and Education, Play With Your Kids, Uncategorized 
Tags: children, Education, games and learning 
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The Short Shelf Life?: On Aging and Video Games
March 11th, 2013 dr. b. I spend a lot of time listening to other gaming podcasts and a bit less time watching video podcasts about games. A lot of the folks that I watch and listen to have a lot in common with me older gamers (Gamers with Jobs), female gamers (Ladies of Leet), gamers who are parents, teachers who [...]
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Games and Feminist Research Methodology pt. 1
February 15th, 2013 alexlayne It’s difficult to find provocative topics to write about each week when I am drowning in dissertation work. Right now I’m working on my literature review, which though often a throwaway chapter, is crucial to my argument. The lack of overlap between important fields, and the ways I suggest we intersect them, is at the [...]
Act Childish!; Play With Your Kids!
January 16th, 2013 dr. b. So, it looks like it bears saying again. Parents should be playing with their children. Not just when they are little and cute and want to play tea party, Legos, or pirate fairy princess, but when they are (pre)pubescent and cranky. When you really start to wonder if they were switched out for your real [...]
Posted in Games and Education, Uncategorized Tags: children, co-op gaming, esrb, parenting, ratings 4 Comments »
Stop Blaming the Games
October 29th, 2012 Nicole Marie As a GameStop employee I have to be extremely aware of the ESRB Rating system and what each rating means. Employees are required to test on the rating system before they can begin their employment and are trained to take the ratings very seriously. Every time a M (mature) rated game is entered into the [...]
When Play Becomes Serious; Time to Stand Up
October 6th, 2012 dr. b. This week Democrat Congressional (Maine) candidate Colleen Lachowicz was outed by Republicans. Lachowicz is not, as far as we know, gay, but she is a gamer. Lachowicz’s opponents have started their own site, Colleen’s World (You can Google it because I refuse to give them an active link), in an attempt to discredit her as a viable [...]
Posted in Games and Education, Games and Rhetoric, Miscellany, Uncategorized Tags: cultural critique, MMORPGs, racism, sexism Comments Off
Are Video Games Art? A Vlog
October 1st, 2012 alexlayne The following video asks the question of whether or not video games are art. Enjoy! Games featured: Journey, Bastion, Braid, Sword and Sorcery, Limbo and The Misadventures of PB Winterbottom.
Posted in 360, Games and Education, Games and Rhetoric, Miscellany, PC, PS3 Tags: art, vlog 2 Comments »
Between Two Worlds: History, Concubinage, and Assassin’s Creed: Liberation
July 24th, 2012 dr. b. Yesterday’s article at Kotaku about the representation of African Americans in Assassin’s Creed: Liberation hit really close to home because we were looking at two sides of the same coin. While Evan Narcisse over at Kotaku thinks that the Canadian developers are off point with their depiction of a few Black folks walking around New [...]
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A Very Basic Bit on Games and Pedagogy
April 21st, 2012 dr. b. I have finally gotten around to editing my video and adding voiceover from my portion of the CCCC Access Happening. I recorded the portion of the talk that went with the video and was actually scripted. There was an introductory bit that was done extemporaneously, but that is not included. Remember that the audience for [...]
Talking About Talking About Talking
April 11th, 2012 alexlayne So I’ve been thinking about my posts lately, plus a comment a friend made to me, and I realize that a lot of what I do is talk about talking about video games rather than talking about the video games themselves. It led me to think more about the role of game scholars who do [...]
