Posts in Video Games

Writing about Lego Star Wars made me think more about how much I used to love videogames and how so many of today’s games don’t bring out the same excitement and wonder that some of the games did when I was growing up. I dug through some old papers and found this brochure from Activision […]

In his book Everything Bad is Good for You, Steven Johnson writes what teachers and parents might have said had videogames been invented before books: “Reading books chronically understimulates the senses. Unlike the longstanding traditions of gameplaying – which engages the child in a vivid, three-dimensional world filled with moving images and musical soundscapes, navigated […]