Are we making a terrible mistake by ignoring games in mainstream journalism?
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A collection of 20 posts
Publishers & Pokémon Go: there's nothing for the likes of you here
Publishers won’t – and can’t – learn anything from Pokémon Go says Chris Sutcliffe: Even thoughtful, forward-thinking pieces about lessons from Pokémon Go like this one from Poynter’s Melody Kramer are written with the assumption publishers have a product…
Fighting trolling with academic rigour
Trolling – hostile, provocative anti-social behaviour – is one of the biggest challenges to any large-scale online community – and that includes comment sections on mainstream publications. The problem is far, far bigger in the online gaming world, though. And one of the…
Making good life choices
This morning I am mainly questioning my life choices. I just received this through the post: What’s inside? Why, a statue to celebrate the fact I have been an unbroken subscriber to World of Warcraft for a decade: He’…
Journalism in 2014
Paul Bradshaw has provided a handy round-up of what happened in the worlds of digital journalism in 2014. Of note: YouTube. Media organisations are still overlooking YouTubers in the same way as they overlooked Vice, Buzzfeed et al. But there…
LeWeb: Adam Gazzaley will fix your brain with neurogames
What’s the state of the art of improving cognition? Take a 60 year old with attention impairment. Well, he’s unlikely to get functional brain imaging. So, he’ll be diagnosed and given a drug. Right now we do…
Obligatory #gamergate post
Seriously abbreviated version of the #gamergate mess: A bunch of predominantly male gamers are using “concerns about the ethics of games journalism” as a shield for a series of deeply misogynistic attacks on prominent women developers, critics and even celebrities.…
LeWeb: Angry Birds, Happy Business
That bizarre image of our host dressed up as the most basic of the Angry Birds had a purpose: it was setting the scene for the arrival of Mikael Hed, CEO, Rovio, the people who are stealing away our lives…