In a previous post I wrote about my love of the miniature dueling game Unmatched, published by Mondo and Restoration Games. Well, imagine my delight when I learned that Restoration Games was sponsoring a contest that asked fans to design… Continue Reading
Alright, so someone said something about the MLB using game media to solve in-person baseball problems and now I’m here for a long one. Anyone who has taken a seminar with me in the fall probably knows I’m a big… Continue Reading
What Horizon Zero Dawn Gets Right I know I’m a few years behind on the Horizon Zero Dawn train, but the reality of the matter is that it’s never too late to highlight points of inspiration from a text. After all, us academics still… Continue Reading
Hello all! I just finished presenting a paper and gender, designed identity, and Nintendo Switch advertising, which is pretty cool. But instead of talking about that, I wanted to chat about a couple of things I learned from speaking in… Continue Reading
For those that do not know, I am currently spending my time during this pandemic playing in seven weekly DnD/Pathfinder games, three of which I am DMing.. and because my research interests reside in games, community, and play, I cannot… Continue Reading
Hello everyone! (Today’s post is being done in conjunction with my live stream of Chrono Ghost at 12pm Central for Lunch Zone! Come join me as I play and talk about some critical race theory and some of the barriers… Continue Reading
Last month, I was ready to go off on a long-term adventure to complete Ubisoft’s 2017 Assassin’s Creed: Origins. However, during the first episode, my PC overheated and shut down upon pressing W, halting the show until I made some… Continue Reading
The game of the early summer for me has been Shiny Shoe’s Monster Train, deck building game where the player transports a pyre through the nine rings of the now frozen hell to rekindle its fire. Along the way the… Continue Reading
So for the past couple of years I’ve been really interested in fan games, which really have not been discussed all that much in video game scholarship. Fan games are (for lack of a better term) slippery to define. Fan… Continue Reading
So this coming week marks the first week of a new show I’m running called Keeping it 100 (💯). By streaming (at least) once a week for (at least) a couple of hours, I’m going to play through a game… Continue Reading