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	<description>Critical Game Theory and Antiwar Gaming</description>
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		<title>Modern Warfare 2&#8217;s Controversial Introduction</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Footage from the introductory level of Modern Warfare 2 has been leaked through various video sources. The game promises to be incredibly controversial from the introductory level alone, which places the player in the role of an undercover agent participating in a terrorist attack on an airport. The game&#8217;s publisher, Activision, has been pushing to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deserthat.wordpress.com&blog=2037660&post=98&subd=deserthat&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lose/Lose</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are more games today playing around with loss and consequence than back when Gonzalo Frasca designed September 12th as a game that could not be won. The game collective, Sweat, has also produced Fifa Fo Fum! which flips winning and losing on its head (Sweat&#8217;s head, Rafael Fajardo, has also produced Seeds of Solitude, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deserthat.wordpress.com&blog=2037660&post=94&subd=deserthat&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MIT&#8217;s Personas</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MIT&#8217;s research students have produced a digital art work that uses data mining to comment on data mining. The program, called Personas, generates a profile based on what it can find about you on the web. Personas is presented as a techno-god machine, calculating your personality based on what it finds about you on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deserthat.wordpress.com&blog=2037660&post=92&subd=deserthat&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Handwriting and the Way We Think</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent report demonstrates that cursive handwriting is on the decline. More people are composing on computers and more teachers are only accepting typed papers; I personally haven&#8217;t written in cursive for about ten years and do a fine job with print. While I am inclined to simply wave nostalgically goodbye to excellent penmanship, there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deserthat.wordpress.com&blog=2037660&post=89&subd=deserthat&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on 3D TV?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sony recently debuted a few games running in full 3D using glasses and a special HDTV at the Consumer Electronics Show. As I&#8217;ve stated below, I&#8217;m not convinced these are going to stick (especially with the 2011 and 2012 arrival dates). The effects of Toy Story and Avatar in 3D are going to be quite [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deserthat.wordpress.com&blog=2037660&post=86&subd=deserthat&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Contra Rebirth</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contra Rebirth came out on Monday for WiiWare, and it is fantastic. Contra is a classic run &#8216;n gun shooter that I&#8217;ve talked about in my work before and also created a machinima about. Contra Rebirth takes the old formula and brings it back with quite a bit of humor and insanity to boot, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deserthat.wordpress.com&blog=2037660&post=84&subd=deserthat&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Janet Murray and PopSci Forgot to Mention</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I&#8217;ve been digging into Janet Murray&#8217;s classic Hamlet on the Holodeck. The book is quite interesting even though it is now over a decade old. Obviously Murray would have a lot more to say about World of Warcraft and Second Life, but what she has to say about MUDs still stands true for this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deserthat.wordpress.com&blog=2037660&post=82&subd=deserthat&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Boy: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When most gamers hear about the Virtual Boy, they immediately deride it, saying what an awful piece of hardware it is and how it was the worst design Nintendo ever made (even worse than going with cartridges on the N64). However, none of these people have actually picked up and played a Virtual Boy (or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deserthat.wordpress.com&blog=2037660&post=79&subd=deserthat&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Resurrecting a Virtual Boy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks back, I picked up a Virtual Boy. The retailer said it had been &#8216;tested thoroughly&#8217; but as soon as I get it back, it starts getting glitched graphics in the right display. Sometimes this isn&#8217;t a problem, but recently it went to the point of unplayability so I decided to get to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deserthat.wordpress.com&blog=2037660&post=77&subd=deserthat&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>T-Shirt Suggests Emergent Play?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Capcom introduced a shirt for their new Resident Evil game that they will be handing out at Comic Con in San Diego. This is a really cool conference to go to this year because Hayao Miyazaki will be attending as well! This t-shirt is also one of the more original shirts to be printed in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deserthat.wordpress.com&blog=2037660&post=73&subd=deserthat&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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