Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Interview - Liz England
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Rapture Through Russell
Bioshock and Bertrand Russell's Authority & the Individual
Many commentators and reporters have ascribed the downfall of BioShock’s Rapture – the Adam addicts, the horrifying cruelty and the shocking race towards self destruction – to the game’s desire to satirise the novel Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
Thursday, October 9, 2014
A Game Design Vocabulary
Thursday, October 9, 2014
We Will Force Gaming to be Free
Monday, August 11, 2014
Gerald Voorhees published in Game Studies!
Monday, July 28, 2014
The MetaFandom Unconference is Calling for Participants!
Let's Talk Fandom and Fan studies!
The University of Waterloo’s Games Institute as well as the IMMERSe Research Network is proud to host a MetaFandom Unconference on Thursday, September 18th and Friday the 19th. Unconferences are gatherings of interested scholars and experts, where they have informed conversations on a particular topic fandom and fan studies, in this case!
Monday, July 7, 2014
GI Faculty Dr. Coleman Featured on Waterloo Homepage!
GI faculty member Beth Coleman is currently being featured on the University of Waterloo homepage. Read the article
Monday, May 12, 2014
CHI PLAY 2014 Call for Papers
As previously reported on the IMMERSe website: http://immerse-network.com/news-chi-play-2014-call-for-papers/ & the CHI PLAY website.
About the Conference
The ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY) is a new international and interdisciplinary conference series (sponsored by ACM SIGCHI) for researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games and human-computer interaction (HCI), we call it: “player-computer interaction”. 
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
"You Are Not a Banana" Now Available on Desura
Brian Cullen’s You Are Not a Banana game is now available to buy on Desura ($2.99 USD). The game has a average rating of 7.4/10 and has drawn a lot of positive feedback.
Sunday, April 6, 2014
EGGNOGG visits PLAY
Makers of EGGNOGG visit the PLAY event at UW
Rachel and Paul Pridham, two of the three people responsible for the game EGGNOGG; developed by Kitchener indie studio Madgarden (http://madgarden.net/about/) will be making an appearance at the PLAY event this weekend around 6pm. Recently, EGGNOGG was nominated in a number of categories at the 2014 Canadian Video Game Awards, including "Best Indie Game" and "Best Casual Game".