“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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Esoteric Gaming
Extraordinary Feats of Player Practice (in Pursuit of the Perfect Game)
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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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