We may think of video games as being "fun," but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play video games, our facial expr
Every day, hundreds of millions of people around the world play video games -- on smart phones, on computers, on consoles -- and most of them will experience failure at some point in the game; they wi
We used to think that video games were mostly for young men, but with the success ofthe Nintendo Wii, and the proliferation of games in browsers, cell phone games, and social gamesvideo games changed
A video game is half-real: we play by real rules while imagining a fictional world.We win or lose the game in the real world, but we slay a dragon (for example) only in the world ofthe game. In this t
The enormous popularity of the Nintendo Wii, Guitar Hero, and smaller games like Bejeweled or Zuma has turned the stereotype of the obsessed young male gamer on its head. Players of these casual game
A video game is half-real: we play by real rules while imagining a fictional world. We win or lose the game in the real world, but we slay a dragon (for example) only in the world of the game. In this
