Communities at play to ring in the New Year!
We went to a cool little festival in Fullerton for New Years. Events like these are great examples of communities at play. Roads no...
Christmas! A season of play?
I have to be honest here... I hate Christmas. It's not because I'm an atheist, I assure you. That's irrelevant. And it's not because I...
Karaoke Play!
Karaoke is a particular pleasure of mine. I must confess that my love for karaoke is in no small part because of long ago dreams of being...
Why do I do what I do?
I study videogames. But why? Sometimes I like to say I do it so I can get paid to play videogames. An old childhood dream come to life....
I feel a Blizzard coming on...
While we were on break from the term, I was invited by Kris Zierhut to come tour the Blizzard campus. Zierhut is currently the lead...
UCLA Game Art Festival
I went to a thing. It was super cool! They had the Tearoom. It was super uncomfortable.
Why UCI, cont.
This. This right here. Right above this text. Why? Because this term, it means a course in Sex, Technology, and Gender by a game studies...
Halloween!
Ah, yes, the greatest game of all: Halloween! Somehow we have been gifted this glorious day in which everyone agrees (well, almost...
SLSA
I had the great pleasure of attending the 2017 conference for SLSA this year. I was able to present a paper on the narrative structure of...
UCI eSports Kickoff!
UCI celebrated their eSports Arena this week with a huge kickoff and a million dollar grant announcement. For what, you ask? To bring...