I’ve been meaning to post about this for awhile, so here it goes. Recently, there have not been a lot of new games released that have really caught my attention, but I have a list of games that I am planning to pick up as soon as 2010 rolls around. The first few months of [...]
12/7 Class Response
In class yesterday we primarily reviewed the issue of games and violence. One thing that we did not get to talk too much about before was how the study of religion and rituals could potentially help justify the issues gaming violence; I really enjoyed discussing this idea because I do think it is possible for [...]
Computer Graphics Imaging Technology Summary
The article I chose to summarize for our section on violence was “Extreme Sex, Death, and Computer Graphics Imaging Technology” by Claudia Herbst. The article focuses on how CGI technology has primarily been used in the past to bring “realistic” violence to life through our computers and film. More recently CGI has been used to [...]
12/2 Class Response
In class on Wednesday we primarily talked about violence in games and the impact they can have in the real world. Specifically, we talked about the case of the Manchester Cathedral being portrayed in the war video game “Resistance: Fall of Man.” The representatives and officials of the Anglican church were appalled that this game [...]
11/30 Class Response
In class on Monday we mainly continued to watch the film that we had completed before break. The film finished up with a lot of the same points it began with, but I think it did a really nice job tying everything together. One thing that really struck me at the end was the generational [...]
