I remember when I bought my first video game system in 1990. It was a Nintendo Entertainment System, and I played Super Mario Brothers for hours at a time. I would sit with my friends, each of us tightly gripping the controller as the 8-bit music chattered at us and we excitedly pushed plastic buttons [...]
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Videogaming culture
Posted in Media, tagged culture, halo, video gaming on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Complexity
Posted in Media, tagged complexity, halo, Media, revolution, video gaming on September 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The world is undergoing a revolution. In fact, it isn’t irrational to claim that ever since the invention of the telegraph, the world has been undergoing one massive media revolution composed of many smaller revolutions. With each extension of our bodies (as McLuhan defines a medium), we reconfigure ourselves—we reconstruct the ways our minds view reality, and [...]
