Friday, January 18, 2013

Uploads and Downloads

The first of many webcasts is live. More are coming, though intermittently, because I'm (1) completely broke (everything is being done on a low-end 2008 Macbook with obsolete software), (2) surviving on subminimum wage labor, and (3) finally starting the Metal Gear book.

It's time to take videogame studies to the next level of the game.

Sunday, January 13, 2013

2013: The Year of the Transnational Audience

The avalanche begins. CD Projekt released a trailer for their upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 and we should see the first unveils for The Witcher 3 pretty soon. Further down the road, Irrational's Bioshock Infinite arrives February 26, Naughty Dog's atmospheric The Last of Us is coming May 13. Finally, there's this little gem. Yaaarrr!

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Ushering In the New Year

Now up: a new and original translation of Adorno and Horkheimer's ground-breaking essay on "The Culture Industry", available here. The existing translation has been showing its age for some time, but has become especially urgent due to the new forms of collective, non-commercial cultural production being unleashed by today's digital commons.