In the mobile game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, the celebrity legitimizes her image while also propagating her brand by redefining fame as an accumulation of skills.
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Kollecting Kim K. Skills: Kardashianized Celebrity in Kim Kardashian: Hollywood
Disney Infinity: A Promotional Platform [Part Two]
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Thinking about Infinity as a replacement for licensed tie-ins—as opposed to the creative revolution they claim—may still be overestimating Disney’s plans.
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Disney Infinity: A Low-Risk Revolution [Part One]
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Disney Interactive's big gaming industry play comes with rhetoric of revolution, and a business model built on the success of other gaming platforms.
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One World, Two Ways In (For Some): Syfy’s Defiance
While Defiance may seek to expand its focus beyond a primarily male audience, as a broader transmedia initiative it highlights the gendered realities of convergent media practices.
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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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What Are You Missing? January 6-19
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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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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