The time has come to take an inventory of today's game industry and envision tomorrow's technological innovations and creative implications.
Henry Jenkins asks, does The Matrix phenomenon represent the future of entertainment?
Innovation in Video Games: A French-American Dialogue
Jesper Juul: "Video game players are neither rational solvers of abstract problems, nor daydreamers in fictional worlds, but both of these things with shifting emphasis."
Members of Comparative Media Studies' GAMBIT Research Staff will deliver from 2-3PM each day a different videogame-based lecture.
The tour concludes with our weekly Friday Games at GAMBIT where you will have a chance to play some of the newest videogames.
My research group is answering this challenge by embedding experiments in a video game which we use to study autism.
This talk will describe how looking at the code and platform levels can enhance our comparative media studies of computational works.
Expect the unexpected when you play some of the newest video games to come from the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab in the MIT Museum's new display.
Play Blizzard Entertainment's creations and give them vital feedback while crushing your enemies!
