In Dylan Arena’s paper “Video Games as Tillers of Soil,” Arena defines a learning area applicable to video games called “affinity space.” Affinity ...

Cosplay Dossier is the companion to weekly video show Agents of Cosplay – go check it out! The tagline of Nintendo’s 2015 Corporate ...

Everyone today agrees that games are art, but no one can define for sure what an “artistic” game looks like. Some, for instance, ...

Do you know what you are? Perhaps more importantly, do you know who you are? By asking yourself these questions, you’ve taken the ...

As the light fades, two games mosey out of town, six shooters on their hips, hats tipped low against the setting sun. Behind ...

It’s the end of the line. We went from Aristotle and Plato to empiricism with David Hume to Marxist aesthetics with Theodor Adorno. ...

Before we look more closely at the philosophy of art (or “aesthetics”) and games, let’s just briefly consider some of the answers for ...

To review from Part 1: Plato valued absolute truth, irrespective of player preferences, and so he argues that good games come from good ...

Ed. Note: This is the first installment of a four-part series discussing the philosophy of game design and how we define what makes ...

In the latest edition of his periodic developer journals here on WarCry, Darkfall Associate Producer Tasos Flambouras talks about his company’s philosophy on ...

Being good is so boring! Wouldn’t you rather be smashing things? – Fable In Margaret Atwood’s apocalyptic novel Oryx and Crake, a mad ...