An Old Hope – Continued

April 19, 2012
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For those of you who read the original piece over at Kill Screen, I’ve decided to continue here on A Simpler Creature the story of the 35 year-old Rookie Abe Stein, currently playing for the Erie SeaWolves, a AA affiliate of the Detroit Tigers. I’m going to play out the career a bit, occasionally posting [...]

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Gender and Sports Videogames

April 11, 2012
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A recent short conversation with a good friend raised some interesting questions about sports videogames, and specifically about how gender is depicted in them. Largely, women are absent from most sports videogames, without even the suggestion of their availability as playable characters. There are no women baseball players in either The Show or MLB2K. There are [...]

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IHA Northeast Regionals Live Stream

April 6, 2012
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  Here’s the live stream of the International Hokra Association Northeast Regional Championships being played out today at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab starting at 4PM EST. Twitter hashtag for those who want to comment is #IHAChamps  

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International Hokra Association Northeast Regional Championships

March 27, 2012
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Registration is open for the first annual International Hokra Association Northeast Regional Championships! Competition is on April 6th, starting at 4PM at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Teams of two players can register to compete in the regional competition. The first 32 teams to register will be entered into the tournament. First, [...]

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Learning All About E-Sports

March 20, 2012
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Konstantin and I had the great fortune of having three spectacular guests in our sports videogame class a few weeks ago. Our topic was about the rise of e-sports, with a specific focus on Major League Gaming and Starcraft 2 as examples. Our guests were three important foundational figures in the development of Starcraft 2 [...]

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