Playing at Leadership: Games, Gaming, & Leadership Studies
"Reality, unlike games, is broken." – Jane McGonigal
So I know I don’t post here a lot anymore, but today’s level of ridiculous is just that, so I feel like this is worth posting. Even if GamerGate ended back in 2016, more or less, as Breitbart writers and … Read More »
Today’s TLF post touches on the ubiquitous problem of the female videogame character wearing metal bikini armor, talking specifically about the most recent Tropes vs. Women in Video Games episode (2.3), “Lingerie is Not Armor.” I’m usually somewhat disappointed by … Read More »
So since my last catching-up post, I’ve not been as prolific as I wish I could be, but se la vie. I haven’t been getting much videogaming in this summer so far, so I’ve only managed to put up part … Read More »
I know we academics say this every year, but this spring was worse than most when it came to things like “getting things done” and “time,” which leads me to my mea culpa about not having posted on here for … Read More »
It’s the end of the semester, so I’m going to have to apologize for the dearth of posts here. I don’t have time to think, much less write all that much. That said, this week’s posts on TLF and NPC … Read More »
Here is the final post in the As-I-Play Bastion series on TLF. This post explains why I went from mostly being annoyed by Bastion to being a pretty serious fan. This is not a fun final post. It’s full of … Read More »
This week’s TLF post is my second-to-last in the As-I-Play Bastion series, and it marks the point when I began to realize just how political (and serious) a game Bastion actually is. If you follow me on NPC Gamer, you … Read More »
This week my final post in the Rise of the Tomb Raider As-I-Play series went up on TLF. My AIP posts tend to have a lot of frustrations in them, since those are very often the gut reactions we have … Read More »
Today Wired posted a story about the new best/worst writing app, which of course made me want to go try it, because clearly that’s a better way to spend my time than excising words out of a conference paper that … Read More »
So a new As-I-Play Bastion post went up today on TLF, and I’m actually going to say a little bit about it. I know my Bastion posts over there have mostly been a lot of me whining about how I … Read More »
This semester has been kicking my a** in terms of work and grading and committee meetings, so I have been horribly remiss about keeping this blog up to date on other things (like TLF and NPC Gamer), much less containing … Read More »
One of the things we require of all our students here at the Jepson School is a course entitled Critical Thinking and Methods of Inquiry, which is the first required sequence class for our newly-admitted sophomores. One part of that … Read More »
So on Monday my response to the latest Tropes vs. Women in Video Games episode (season 2, episode 1) went up on TLF. The episode–in a new style from the previous season of the series–is all about butts, which struck … Read More »
A new As-I-Play Rise of the Tomb Raider went up today over on TLF. I have to say, with the game coming out on PC/Steam this week, it is totally worth buying and playing. Game Informer reflected that Crystal Dynamics … Read More »
This year (2016) has essentially started out like a sucker punch for those of us who are fans of pop culture. This week has seen the deaths of two of the men whose work in pop culture was formative for … Read More »
