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University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT)'s Clan Combat took home the Best Programming award at this year's Ubisoft Academia Game Lab competition.GI has partnered with UOIT as well as six other universities to form IMMERSe.

Faculty member Gerald Voorhees' paper, "Play and Possibility in the Rhetoric of the War on Terror: The Structure of Agency in Halo 2", was published in this month's issue of Game Studies. The abstract can be read below.

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!

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GI faculty member Beth Coleman is currently being featured on the University of Waterloo homepage. Read the article

A fake jam where you make pretend games

It’s not located anywhere and you don’t have to program anything. FPS is looking for written descriptions of the processes and procedures that make up a game, called procedural poems. So, what makes it a jam? First of all there’s a prize.

As originally reported on May 28, 2014 on Uwaterloo's History website.

Congratulations, Ian Milligan!

Effective May 1, 2005, in accordance with the 2003 Faculty Salary Settlement, the University of Waterloo established an Outstanding Performance Fund to reward faculty members for outstanding contribution in teaching and scholarship.

IMMERSe researcher Oliver Kreylos tried SensoMotoric Instruments', a company with around 20 years of experience in vision-based eye tracking hardware and software, prototype integrating the camera-based eye tracker from their existing eye tracking glasses with an off-the-shelf Oculus Rift DK1 HMD.

Read his full blog post

GI Janes' co-founder Elise Vist was featured in a Waterloo Stories article for her work raising the profile of women in gaming. Read the full article below.

This week's essay, entitled Identification or Desire: Taking the Player-Avatar Relationship to the Next Level, was written by GI faculty member Gerald Voorhees. He argues that the player-avatar relationship is fundamentally queer in nature.

Read the full essay on First Person Scholar's web site now!

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We Will Force Gaming to be Free

IMMERSe Partner's (UOIT) Students Win at Ubisoft Competition

Gerald Voorhees published in Game Studies!

The MetaFandom Unconference is Calling for Participants!

Let's Talk Fandom and Fan studies!

GI Faculty Dr. Coleman Featured on Waterloo Homepage!

FPS Pseudo Game Jam Begins: Theme Announced

A fake jam where you make pretend games

Faculty member awarded for outstanding performance

Congratulations, Ian Milligan!

IMMERSe Researcher Tries Oculus Rift with Eye Tracker

Rewriting the story of women in gaming: Can Frodo be a woman?

NEW FPS Essay: Identification or Desire?

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