Henry Crouch
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The surprisingly long history of live-action role-playing.
According to Lizzie Stark, author of a new book on the history of Live-action Roleplay (LARP), Leaving Mundania, the history of LARP dates back far beyond the era of Tolkein-esque fantasy to the Romans and Elizabethans: Queen Elizabeth I presided over some serious, and seriously expensive, larplike
EA joins a coalition to repeal DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act).
EA, one of the largest gaming companies in the world, hasn’t always been publicized in a positive light, but they continue to assert a supportive stance on LGBT diversity. As controversy around the Defense of Marriage Act— a law that defines marriage as between one man and one woman on a federal lev
Why modern HDTVs are ruining precision-based gameplay.
PaRappa the Rapper has always been a hard game, but now it may be harder than ever due to a common issue of display-latency in HDTVs. The HDTV’s fatal flaw lies in its many filters: deep-blacks, vivid colors and high-resolutions may look fantastic, but the amount of post-processing power required to
Eddo Stern makes art-games about game-life.
Eddo Stern is a multimedia artist working around the politics and philosophies of games, and the games of politics and philosophy. In a review of his recent exhibition at Young Projects in LA, Sharon Mizota makes note of two games displayed for public play, Darkgame and Goldstation, which touch on e
Rayman Legends hands players the baton, pushes composition over competition.
video At a recent press preview in NYC, I had a chance to demo parts of the upcoming Rayman Legends, a follow-up to 2011’s Rayman Origins. Legends‘ gameplay will be familiar to fans of Origins, only slicker: it carries on Origins’ distinct, painterly art style, now with even more refinement and the
When ladies talk to ladies about ladies n’ stuff: The Bechdel Test in videogames
Alison Bechdel, author of the classic, queer comic Dykes to Watch Out For, is distinguished not only for her comic contributions, but for popularizing “The Bechdel Test,” a test for movies that has three requirements: One, it has to have at least two women in it, who Two, talk to each other about Th
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