Last November I was invited to talk about video games as journalism at the Future of Journalism conference, an internal BBC event run by the BBC College of Journalism. Since it was an internal event, it was all off the record, but the conference proceedings will be published as a book, and I’m contributing an […]
Read more "The Future of Journalism"Interesting post over at the Georgia Tech Gaming and Journalism Blog. Ian Bogost writes about the BBC’s recent news piece with Rory Cellan-Jones, which used a flight sim to recreate the water landing of US Air flight 1549 in the Hudson River. Ian writes that BBC news could have taken things farther – instead of […]
Read more "BBC Games Air Crash – Almost"The audience has mutated. Consider exhibit A, this video: It’s been sweeping the viral video nets over here. Over 700,000 hits in a week is pretty damn good. UPDATE: This video has accrued over 6.8 million hits in 11 days. It’s the most shared video on the net right now, according to viralvideochart. This vid […]
Read more "We, the Medium"Watching Candidate Obama become President Obama has been interesting. One thing that’s caught my eye lately has been his treatment on newspaper and magazine covers. Pictures are worth a thousand tweets, so the saying goes, but the best thing about them is that you can say a lot without actually saying anything. For instance, check […]
Read more "Barack Obama – Cover Boy"There’s a nice little internet storm brewing up over Raid Gaza. It’s an uber-simplified real -time strategy game where you play the Israelis. As missiles curl out of Gaza, you respond by building tanks, soldiers and aircraft to blast the densely populated slums. The goal is to get as high a kill ratio as possible […]
Read more "Raid Gaza Makes a Point"Social media is meant to be participatory. But it often has asperger’s syndrome. This is a problem. Yesterday, Jem Stone told us how to solve it. He was chairing a workshop called Putting the Social in Social Media at BBC London’s HQ in Marylebone. Jem is Communities Director for Audio and Music Interactive here at […]
Read more "Putting the Social in Social Media"ARG designers suck. That was the upshot of Dan Hon’s presentation at the ARGs in in Charity and Education conference at Channel 4 last Friday. His talk was the highlight of the day for me, probably because he was animatedly ranting about things that I’d only dimly considered before. “How many of you have actually […]
Read more "Five lessons ARGs can teach Journalism"Nifty. also – YouTube has gone to 16:9. Also nifty.
Read more "This is Immersion"There’s a new kid on the block. Meet the latest scion of the Molleindustria family, younger brother of the excellent McDonald’s Video Game and Faith Fighter. It’s Oiligarchy. Molleindustria is an Italian-based group of artists, programmers and designers who are making a habit of creating really interesting games. They describe their goal in stirring terms: […]
Read more "Oiligarchy"Here’s a wicked little vid: Wow – that dude and his friends must really love Guitar Hero, huh? Yeah, they must. Them and the ad company that made that vid with some slick CG effects. Turns out it was Activision, all along, pulling the viral meme strings like some amorphous transmedia demon. Still, it is […]
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Philip Trippenbach 