I’m editing a special issue of the journal Space and Culture on the “Geography of Virtual Worlds.” Here’s a draft of the introduction. It’s still in process, but it might give some sense of what I think will be a very interesting issue.
This evening I am home in front of the fireplace, chatting […]

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I just finished reading Thomas Malaby’s essay, “Beyond Play: a New Approach to Games” from Games and Culture  (vol. 2, no. 2, April 2007).  It’s a very insightful essay about the relationship between game, play and everyday life. He makes the following claim:
“A game is a semibounded and socially legitimate domain of contrived […]

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Leave it to the Germans…
Link: jay is: The Asylum.

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The democrats have managed to force the makers of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas to change the rating from mature to adults only.  This is not because of its extreme violence.  That’s fine for kids.  It’s because some modders found a way to access some hidden data that shows the characters engaged in sex acts […]

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