Recent Posts
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Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System
Montfort and Bogost show that the Atari VCS—often considered merely a retro fetish object—is an essential part of the history of video games.
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MIT Director Jay Scheib in New York Times
“Directed by Jay Scheib, ‘Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre’s 20th Century’ is based on the band’s 2007 album of the same title.”
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New York Times on the GAMBIT Game Lab: “See Me, Hear Me: A Video Game for the Blind”
“People with disabilities were being left out of progress in the gaming market.”
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“Free speech versus fear”: Chris Capozzola in the Boston Globe
“Wartime mobilization, Chris Capozzola argues, redefined the citizen’s relationship to the state.”
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io9: “What Is David Bowie Doing In Dr. Manhattan’s Sweet Pad?”
“Henry Jenkins joined Alisa Perren and super-designer Alex McDowell at MIT to discuss the work behind making Watchmen so beautiful.”
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Ellen Hume on the Future of Journalism
The full playlist, including more clips of Ellen Hume, Mark Jurkowitz, Doug Smith, and Sree Sreenivasan is available here.
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Matthew Weise: “Press the ‘Action’ Button, Snake! The Art of Self-Reference in Video Games”
“It is useful to think about the boundary between player and fiction as an elastic membrane—a threshold—rather than a wall.”
