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Category Archives: ::Games::

Sony Digs Its Own Grave, Then Tries to Fill it in

March 25, 2009by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Last week, MTV Multiplayer had an interesting scoop about how Sony has been charging game publishers for content that users can download. According to this article, Sony started charging publishers […]

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The Return of the Adventure Game

February 2, 2009by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

After having to deal with a decade of recession, adventure games are back! For a long time, game makers just weren’t making so many adventure games- opting more for shooting […]

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Outrageous abuse of patents

December 29, 2008by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

I know that patents are abused, but this is outrageous. Virtual World News reports that Worlds.com filed a complaint against NCsoft for infringing on its virtual world and MMO patents. […]

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::Games::, politics & law

Trading cyber money offline is illegal in Korea, er, unless you earned it fair and square

December 25, 2008by arcticpenguin 1 Comment

Of all countries, it angers me that Korea thinks offline trading of cyber money is illegal. According to the wire service Yonhap,   a local court in Busan fined two 30-somethings […]

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::Games::, politics & law

DS goes beyond gaming

December 21, 2008by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

One of the reasons I like the DS is that aside from arcade, many of the games are either simulations or role-playing games. For instance, you don’t see games like […]

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::Games::

Me loves Goo

December 4, 2008by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

World of Goo is a great game, and I’ve just posted a review of it.

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::Games::

Biased video game studies

November 17, 2008by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

What annoys me about studies conducted on the violence factor of video games is that the researchers can’t overcome their bias towards games and make such an effort to label […]

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Gaming for a cause

November 2, 2008by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

A lot of games these days involve playing for a cause- LIl’ Green Patch, for example, is a simulation game where you plant and tend your garden, but the time […]

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D.Yvette Wohn, Ph.D.

Dr. Wohn (she/her) is an associate professor at NJIT and director of the Social Interaction Lab (socialinteractionlab.com). Her research is in the area of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) where she studies the characteristics and consequences of social interactions in online environments such as livestreaming, esports, virtual worlds/metaverse, and social media.

Funded by the National Science Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, and Yahoo, her main projects examine 1) content moderation, online harassment and the creation/maintenance of online safe spaces, 2) social exchange in digital economies & digital patronage (creator-supporter dynamics), and 3) identity and online self-presentation

Blog Posts

  • art & architecture
  • being digital
    • ::3D Virtual Worlds::
    • ::Cyber Culture::
    • ::Gadgets/Services::
    • ::Games::
    • ::Mobile Culture::
    • ::Social Media::
  • daily doilies
  • fashion
  • fiction:surrealism
  • food
  • journalism
  • natural science
  • politics & law
2026 Schedule

4/13-17: CHI (Barcelona)
4/19-23: Social XR @CWI (Amsterdam)
6/4-6: ICA (Capetown)
7/26-30: HCI International (Montreal)

Blog Posts

  • art & architecture
  • being digital
    • ::3D Virtual Worlds::
    • ::Cyber Culture::
    • ::Gadgets/Services::
    • ::Games::
    • ::Mobile Culture::
    • ::Social Media::
  • daily doilies
  • fashion
  • fiction:surrealism
  • food
  • journalism
  • natural science
  • politics & law

Most Recent Posts

  • New research on how music fans feel about AI- generated fan content
  • Chi 2025
  • Judging for sigchi design jam
  • Op-eds in 2024

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