Mention the name “Justin Bailey” to anyone old enough to remember the original Nintendo Entertainment System and you will most […]
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Random Encounter #10: In Which Video Games and Movies Are Very Different Media
Is it possible to make a good video game movie? Like, at all? For many years, the term “video game […]
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Random Encounter #9: In Which the Ownership Paradigm Shifts
Sooner or later, we aren’t really going to own anything – and video games, while late to that particular party, […]
Read moreSerious Fun Episode 39: Localizing the Legend (w/ Scott Strichart)
Listen: Soundcloud We are living in a golden age for globalized pop culture – we have access to television, film, […]
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Random Encounter #8: In Which a Turbulent Mess of a Year Somehow Produced Okay Video Games
2020. That just kept going, didn’t it? Anyway, in honor of this column making it a year, here are the […]
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Random Encounter #7: In Which the Next Generation Is Somehow Still a Thing That Is Happening
We’re on the eve of the launch of brand-new video game consoles – always a momentous, exciting time, and arguably […]
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Random Encounter #6: In Which the Rules of the World Shape the Rules of the Game
Star Wars Squadrons got me thinking about the ramifications of starship design and fairness. See, one of my favorite bits […]
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Random Encounter #5: In Which Game Design is Made More Super
This Friday (presuming no cataclysmic network outage and hoping CAHSS and Effect didn’t decide to finally revoke this column) sees […]
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Random Encounter #4: In Which the State of Things Affects the State of Play
I have to write these things in advance. Normally, that means thinking about a particular game or topic that will […]
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RANDOM ENCOUNTER #3: In Which the UW System’s Connection to Doom is Revealed
Earlier this month, id Software released Doom: Eternal, the latest entry in the wildly popular Doom franchise. While the latest […]
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