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With all the press (mostly of the incredulous variety) swirling around Ubisoft's line of DS games for girls (featuring such scintillating titles as Imagine: Babyz and Imagine: Fashion Designer, as Ashcraft mentioned earlier this week), Ian Bogost is here to set the record straight and chastise us all for having short memories and no sense of history (ouch!): the series isn't new, and Babyz was first released in 1999. I think Bogost is being a little disingenuous here - is it any wonder that many of us have no recollection of minor software toys targeted towards adult women released in the mid-to-late 90s (and do interactive desktop pets really count as a 'game'?)? I'll concede that a more complete historiography makes for some more interesting observations: More »
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Ian Bogost is the guy behind a lot of newsgames and training games - and has managed to attract enough attention thanks to some high profile partnerships that he'll be appearing on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report this coming Tuesday. He's also come under some hefty criticism from people both inside and outside the gaming industry - most recently, in a Slate article titled (in part) World of Borecraft. Bogost has already responded to the Slate article, but he digs a little deeper in a new Gamasutra piece that explains his reasoning for just not really caring what the more traditional forces in industry think. Namely, games aren't some monolithic construct that are either/or: either fun or educational, either fun or a total snoozefest, and dammit, there's room for all of them. More »
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Documentary games aficionado Ian Bogost has unearthed an interesting mod that uses Medal of Honor: Allied Assault to create the Paris Riots. More »
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Fight, fight! I love when academics dust it up over publications, its so mentally invigorating... and subtlety catty. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=193741&view=rss&microfeed=true The Third Annual Games for Change conference kicked off at The New School University in New York today. The conference looks at using video, mobile and video games (they call them digital games, I like it.) for social change. More »
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