In: Gaming News
7 Feb 2010Steve 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, whether in cognition [...]
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 [...]