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Interview with Liz England

Interview with Liz England

Assassin's Creed III

Assassin's Creed III

Heterotopia and Play

Heterotopia and Play

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.

A Game Design Vocabulary

A Game Design Vocabulary

Gamer Gate

Gamer Gate

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.

Halo 2 image

Halo 2 image

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!

balls piled in a city to represent data from tweets

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