Everyone looking forward to PS5 Pro is actually a PC gamer in their heart, dreaming of having an option to spend money on a more powerful graphics card.
Another exciting #GameStudies book around the corner!
"#Ecogames" brings together chapters by a diverse group of authors to explore the shape, impact, and cultural context of ecocritical engagement in and through #VideoGames. 🌱🌎🎮
Join Ronald McGillvray & yours truly as we wrap up 2023 with an all-new author spotlight, a bunch of talk about books, movies, TV, games, music, and so much more!
I pretty much 100% recovered from my bout with the COVID. Slight sniffle, but then again, I spend pretty much the entire winter with one, so who knows? Seems like the rest of the family, even the unboosted one, has avoided my fate, which is great. Probably shouldn't go back to hockey tomorrow though, at least if I'm reading the CDC guidelines correctly. I'll just wait until next Tuesday to get back on the ice.
I've been playing the Guardians of the Galaxy computer game. It's a strange one. 🤔 It has a bit of combat and some character progression, but it really is more about puzzle-solving and plot(!) than a real RPG. It even has quicktime events, which I thought disappeared years ago. Still fun though. And 4 Guys Co-op had a long session of Serious Sam 4 but we couldn't get level 3 finished. I may have to ease the difficulty a bit. @videogames#videogames
CBI image of the day is of women working on binding wires together, following a schematic on paper pinned to the work surface as part of the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense system. The processing power for SAGE was driven by the IBM AN/FSQ-7. #IBM@histodons@sociology@anthroplogy
🚨 New publication: The Relationship Between Lockdowns and Video Game Playtime: Multilevel Time-Series Analysis Using Massive-Scale Data Telemetry 🚨
In which we show that the COVID-19 lockdowns didn't really affect the amount of heavy gaming per player, but accounted for more players playing games (and school lockdowns only).
Join hosts Ronald McGillvray & yours truly as season two rolls on with an all-new author spotlight, a bunch of talk about books, movies, TV shows, games, music, and so much more!
The official origin story of Life Is Strange fan-favourite Steph Gingrich featuring #LGBTQ+ romance, inevitable heartbreak, and the punk-rock beginnings of Drugstore Makeup. 🌈
Combining theories on fictional persons from Japanese and Euro-American practices, this book discusses #VideoGame characters in our popular media culture in which they are constantly re-imagined.