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Aconite Moves Forward on Slime in the Ice Machine
The Houston-set adventure game looks like a go
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Lana Z Porter: Interaction revolutionizes connection
As Creative Director of R&D at The New York Times, Lana Porter harnesses emerging technologies to create novel ways for readers to connect with journalism, from 3D-modeled environments to AI-powered news interfaces.
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Zahra Rasool: Immersive stories through justice and journalism
hrough AJ Contrast, Zahra Rasool leads Emmy-nominated immersive journalism that centers marginalized voices. Her groundbreaking work "Still Here" examines incarceration and gentrification through collaborative storytelling with formerly incarcerated women.
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Important Moments in Videogame Journalism
A brief and not entirely reliable history of the games press, from cave walls to Nintendo Power.
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A game designer speaks to how systems thinking can benefit journalism
Systems thinking is an approach to analysis, focusing on how different parts of a system relate to each other, and how they change over time and within the context of larger systems. That’s lot of words to process, but luckily Nicky Case has sketched up a great reflection on systems thinking in rela
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1979 Revolution to explore the Black Friday Massacre this April
1979 Revolution, the adventure game series based on political events in Iran that year, will see its first episode released on April 5th. It’s something I’ve been waiting for since playing a demo of the game on an iPad at an exhibition titled “Sensory Stories: An Exhibition of New Narrative Experien
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Are You Well-Played?
It all started with that one spreadsheet: a trifle to amuse myself between bouts of frenzied editing and marathon writing sessions. It was called “the Database”—an inside joke shared by me and no one else—and it was my attempt at listing every videogame I had ever played in my life. At first, I thou
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The Westport Independent does*** ***** understand censorship
The Westport Independent is a game about journalism. And so, in the interests of good journalism, a full disclosure is in order: I was employed as an editor at a newspaper company in Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post Group, from 2012-2015. This is important because The Westport Independent is,
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The Charlie Hebdo debate arrives in the videogame world
You’re not against free speech, are you? This interpretive trap awaits anyone attempting to publicly wrangle the legacy of Charlie Hebdo. In late April, the PEN American Center announced that its literary gala would honor the French satirical newspaper. In response, a series of authors including Jun
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Learn to fear deadlines in this snarky journalist simulator
When the news hits hard, you gotta hit hard back. Stop the press! The Coop Times is an exercise in ridiculous free-writing.
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Newsgames, and the quiet quest to be worthwhile
There’s more to newsgames than stupid quizzes.
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Westport Independent’s latest trailer hints at the corruptability of media
“By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.” –Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf The Westport Independent, a censorship simulator about the power of press, recently got a new trailer that crackles with the corruptio