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Mom Gamers Talk about Casual Games

Featuredby arcticpenguin 3 Comments

Casual Connect hosted a focus group panel with five “mom gamers”– moms who love playing casual games– with the audience asking questions. The most interesting thing was the diversity in […]

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Discussion on digital distribution

July 17, 2010by arcticpenguin 1 Comment

  This post was written by Wisnie86, A. Young, and M. Ericksen: Wisnie86: Not too many years ago the only way that you could purchase a video game was from […]

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Hacking: Unfair or an upgrade?

February 8, 2010by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Guest writers Ryan Rogers, Shawn Stormo, Brett McDowell, and Jesse Hacker discuss the fairness of hacking: Ryan Rogers: Hacking. We all heard about it in some way, shape, or form. […]

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Disputing morality in games

December 3, 2009by arcticpenguin 3 Comments

Editors’ Note: In this post, guest authors Jan H.G. Klabbers and William Robinson dispute morality in games. Jan H.G. Klabbers: Literature, among others, serves to enlarge the empathy of the […]

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