It is all about love, it has always been. Well, I don’t mean this modern romantic cheesy type of love (which I’m not exactly a fan) but well, I mean the philosophic possibilities of love conceptions.
Sometimes the cheesy meets the philosophic… check this video:

…. this is the feeling I got after reaching level 3 (out of 20) in Dragon Age. Years and years pass by playing games, and I wonder why the concept of levelling is continuously reproduced in digital games.
Why do people like games where they level? Is it heritage of a constructionist pedagogic framework (kids level [...]

For the l33tist, the noob is dumb or a retard, someone incapable of understanding the game or someone who lacks motor coordination skills to perform actions as quickly as desired. For the newbie, the l33t is a bullier and an addict who “has no life” outside the game.
Two sides of the spectre who share [...]

It has been quite a while I don’t write anything here. I had to clean my whole website and reinstall everything again after being infected with an inconspicuous malware. Google, Firefox and IE were also very effective and blocking all access possible to my website, I had to have some patience to restore everything. Anyway, [...]

Take the example of race: a running marathon, Formula 1, or any other similar sports and hobbies. Nobody plays. One runs, competes, races, but the verb “play” sounds inadequate. Although there’s a sense of competition, the consensus of the best performer (winner) among peers, in these games one strives for performance perfection. In all these [...]

It seems this expression have become more popular lately, in a moment when industry and scholars are concerned with new forms of sensorial interaction with digital devices. I don’t think it is a coincidence it happens in a (global/hegemonic) cultural context where ecology, nature and health appear as unquestionable highest positive moral values. Let’s play, [...]

The first time I heard of Heigan the Unclean was from a colleague’s posted video in facebook, which looked like this:

Basically, to defeat this opponent the player has a great amount of constraints, that is, he/she has to perform actions in very specific ways to succeed. While watching the video, my reaction to it was [...]

It’s not easy to pursue an academic research on game players, may it be empirical or theoretic. On the theoretic side, bibliographic references will point out to Caillois, Salen and Zimmerman, Richard Bartle, indicating structural types and categories that for some (like me) would not be convincing enough, according to divergent epistemological assumptions regarding ontological [...]

The universe, life – may they be real or illusion – belongs to everyone, everyone can see what I see and own what I own, or at least, conceive themselves seeing it and owning it. But what I dream nobody can see besides me, nobody can own it besides me.
Fernando Pessoa, Book of Disquiet