Many have tried (and many failed) to bring various games together in a set of comprehensive categories. Roger Caillois is one of them and we are diving into his Classification of Games to explore the categories and how they apply to contemporary video games. In our side quests, we discuss the biggest leack in the history of…
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Writing term papers can be a tough and tedious task. We wish to help by sharing with you the most common and detrimental mistakes so you don’t have to make them.
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Friendships are so precious. Video games never get tired of emphasizing that. Aside from reminiscing about the friends we made with fictional characters, we also discuss the absurd albeit necessary tendency to quantify friendships. In our side quests, we discuss the recent settlement of one of the lawsuits against Activision Blizzard and catch up with announcements in…
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It is finally time for our very first episode! Our mascot Pixel-kun is celebrating and so are we. For introductions, we share five stories of our gaming biography, only three of which are true. Can you tell the difference? For our side quests, we discuss Tripwire‘s CEO stepping down after expressing public support for the Texas…
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We are exceedingly happy to present: Studying Pixels! Henceforth, you can expect interesting discussions, academic deep dives, reviews, and lots of silly puns. Hosted by game studies scholar Stefan Heinrich Simond and Japanese scholar Dan Hughes. And our mascot, Pixel-kun, of course. Please be excited!
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It’s cute, right? Pixel-kun was a spontaneous creation that emerged while we were brainstorming ideas for Studying Pixels. Originally suggested as a joke by our editor Tobias Klös, it quickly became apparent that Pixel-kun has to become our mascot. What does that name even mean? Most of us are to some degree versed in Japanese…
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