Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Games
What Are You Missing? Apr 28 – May 11
#1ReasonToBe and Many Reasons To Still Worry
One of this year's key stories is how the industry deals with difference and inclusivity, both for developers and for the industry as a whole.
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Changing the conversation, not just the games
Thoughts about the EA/HRC Full Spectrum mini-conference and LGBT representation in the gaming industry.
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More Lively Than Life is Our Motto: Better Living Through Gamification
As we reinvent our lives through gamification, we have to ask ourselves what it means to be alive.
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Booth Babe Backlash
A year of misogyny in geek culture resurrected the booth babe debate that has contributed to a backlash against female fandom.
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Episodic: What Games Learned From TV
While episodic gaming is a new frontier for how developers make games, it is perhaps an even larger divergence in terms of how we play games.
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The Internet, Baseball Analysis, and the Persistence of Dogma
A brief discussion and interview with Baseball Prospectus podcaster Kevin Goldstein on the current state of baseball analysis.
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M2AF: Message Received
What I find surprising about gaming M2AFs is how often they quickly turn intimate, even if the only connection between sender and receivers is an ad hoc one established to gain an achievement. It is not uncommon to get a highly personal message of one kind or another.
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Feminist Game Studies
It isn’t difficult to find feminist game studies, or feminist gamers. The reputation of misogyny in video game culture, lack of women and racial minorities in the industry, the perpetuation of player stereotypes in games marketing and the popular press, and the dearth of non-white, female, or queer characters in games has provided plenty...
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Circles, Charmed and Magic
Adrienne Shaw interrogates the stigma associated with the solitary gamer by applying queer theory to games studies, arguing in the process for a broader consideration of how these two scholarly approaches might work together.
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A Song of Ice and Trading Cards: Licensing HBO’s Game of Thrones
The licensing process for the HBO series highlights the challenge of balancing a level of control over the quality of products related to the series with efforts to both monetize and expand its audience.
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“Quiet, you”: Computer Games, Silence, and the Anti-Aliasing of Expression
A hunt for elusive video game silence and an investigation of its meaning.
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Computer Games: Heart of the Humanities?
In what ways does the medium and its exploration connect with the traditional foci of humanistic study: life, death, friendship, love, work, play, language, learning, history, and so on?
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Late to the Party: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)
As a games studies scholar, I risk my gamer credibility to admit that I have never played a single Zelda title.
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Late to the Party: Myst and Why You Can Never Go Home Again
Welcome to our new feature, Late to the Party. Each week, our contributors will consume and report on a canonical or otherwise significant piece of media that they have missed until now. Next up: Kyra Glass von der Osten on Myst.
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