Monthly Archives: May 2015
Short Take: NPR
by Alexina •
The NPR peice I read was about two voice over actors in the videogame industry. Honestly, I had never thought about the voices in vidoegames, I guess I imagined they were computer generated. ( which is probably the case for lower budget games) It was interesting to read how the two voice actors for two…
Final Paper
by Alexina •
Anya Pearson Objectification of Women in the Videogame Industry Videogames, A method of play that was once thought to be specifically sought out by adolescent males. Something that was once considered a waste of time. Video games are now an extremely popular form of media, one that involves the player and causes them to…
Short Take: PBS Article
by Alexina •
The PBS article I read was about how female gamers have trumphed adolesant male gamer numbers of late. First of all they made it seem like female gamers are overtaking male gamers as a whole, when in actuality the results from their article state that they are only overtaking 18 year old males, not all…
Book Review: Rules of the Game: Quiz Shows and American Culture by Olaf Hoerschelmann
by cjakob •
Book Review: Rules of the Game: Quiz Shows and American Culture by Olaf Hoerschelmann Ever wonder why game shows in all their frivolity are enjoyed by Americans? Even deeper than this how do they depict us as Americans? Is that important? What can be defined as a game show? What are its categories? How did…
BoRT post: Palette swaps
by Alexina •
Review of The Summer of Beer and Whiskey
by Alan Kloosterhof •
In the early 1880’s, professional baseball in the U.S. had a popularity problem. It couldn’t shake its association with gambling and fixing games, and the nation’s top professional league, the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, had a penchant for kicking out popular players and teams if they did not tow the company line.…
Video Games and the Experience
by cgill •
Video games have been a part of the technological boom beginning in the mid-20th century in a little lab of MIT. During the expansion of video games into the daily culture of the average person, groups of scholars, players, and people who never played a video game have stepped forward to describe the overall experience.…
Paramour: On being Gay in a world of Straight games.
by Griffin H. •
I’ve had a long relationship with games. Unfortunately the same cannot be said about the characters in them. Of all of the space aliens I’ve banged, of all the Bioware characters I’ve courted and successfully romanced, not one of them was gay. Some were bisexual, sure. Some had gay romance options. But none of them…
Seals in Japan and Jackie in Congress: Baseball as Anticommunism
by Alan Kloosterhof •
In October 1949 an independent minor league American baseball team, the San Francisco Seals, embarked on a goodwill tour in Japan. The tour, whose mission was to contribute to the building of goodwill between the United States and Japan, and to help revive baseball in Japan after its prohibition during the Second World War, was…