The Guilt of Cheating
It’s 0200 and I’m tossing in my sleep. My PS Vita is sitting on the night stand next to me,
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Co-Playing with My Mom: Mega Man 2
“I’m going to play Mega Man now.” “Ok, I’ll be free in 15 min.” I distinctly remember this conversation from
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Celebrating a Portal to The Nether with Cake! Emergent Play in Minecraft
With all of the proper ingredients gathered, I baked a cake. I baked this virtual cake as my two companions
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Death of a Guild, Birth of a Child: Multi-Boxing and Self-Imposed Exile to the Prison Server in EQ2
I used to play Everquest 2 (EQ2), but like many MMOs it can be intense and tiring. People burn out.
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“I Happily Pronounce You Bonded for All Eternity”: Marriage in the MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV
It wasn’t long after I joined Raven’s Crown, my current guild, that I received a wedding invitation in my moogle
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The Esoteric Practices of Destiny’s Dads
When I first started playing Destiny (a first person console shooter with MMO elements made by Bungie) on September 29 of
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A True Tomb Raider: Playing the Classic Tomb Raider Games without Saving
On the first personal computer we owned at the house in which I grew up, my father played the first
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Rom Nation – An Interview with Famed ROM Hacker and Translator Lina`Chan
How far will gamers go to play a game? In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the spread of the
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IDDQD, or How I Learned to Love Video Games
My parents never saw the value of video games. They were expensive, violent, and disruptive. “You already watch too much
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Is a Game Esoteric in a Vacuum?
This writing begins the conversation of individual player movement toward connoisseurship, the personal meaning-making that leads to some very esoteric
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