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In: Gaming News
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Steve Gaynor, a designer at 2K Marin, understands that he works in an entertainment field, and provides a product nonessential to basic human needs. That doesn’t mean video games – and their makers - have no obligation to the public.
News reports frequently mention studies that indicate some benefit to playing video games, [...]
In: Gaming News
24 Jan 2010A director of design and an avowed “hardcore ludologist” ponders why the well constructed games he nominates do so poorly in design competitions, engaging a debate over whether games are a media or designed objects. But they’re both, he says.
Matt Jones of the London-based design consultancy BERG, has unsuccessfuly nominated console games like Left 4 [...]