So Papo & Yo (Minority Media, 2012) is a game that I have been interested in playing for a while. When the indie title appeared on PS3 about a year ago I did a bit of research to see what other folks were saying about the title. I was simultaneously intrigued and disturbed. If you [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Culture’
The Monster Within: Papo & Yo As A Meaningful Experience
May 8th, 2013 
dr. b. 
Posted in PC, PS3, Uncategorized 
Tags: children, cultural critique, Culture, diversity, Education, serious games 
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It’s a Thin (Red) Line Between Love and Hate
March 7th, 2012 dr. b. I have a love/hate relationship with war games…always have and I probably always will. I am a bit of an aggressive gamer. I like to run and gun. Shooting things after a long stressful day usually makes me feel better. I am a sucker the CoD:MW# games. I like going on foot for my combat. [...]
Posted in Games and Rhetoric, Uncategorized Tags: Culture, fps, propaganda, sexism, sexual assault Comments Off
Called to Duty in Call Of Duty?: On Culture, Immersion, and Lack in Video Games
February 20th, 2012 dr. b. Chaim Gingold over at the Expressive Intelligence Studio blog has posted a bit about a lecture that Cecil Brown delivered at UC- Santa Cruz entitled Games Blacks Love to Play. It is an interesting piece and a fascinating idea as a whole. Brown traces game play through 3 historical periods of African American presence in [...]
Posted in Games and Rhetoric, Uncategorized Tags: cultural critique, Culture, game theory, literary theory, race Comments Off
Hardcore Mama: Should Kids Be Off Limits?
March 18th, 2011 dr. b. Ok, so I am doing the unthinkable and rehashing a post from the past (albeit from my personal blog) because it’s a topic that I have been thinking a lot about and one that I have been thinking a lot about recently, especially with the release of the Dead Island trailer. We talked about it [...]
Posted in 360, PS3, Uncategorized Tags: Culture, feminism, intersectionality, motherhood, survival horror 2 Comments »
Should Civilization 5 be used for Education?
January 16th, 2011 alexlayne A discussion of why I love Civ 5, why I think it can be used how to study the gamification of history and education, as well as some reflections on the representations of different cultures.
