Word: gamers
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...ever heard of,” says Allen Cheng ’09, one of the organizers of the event. The president of HIMG, Benjamin S. Decker ’08, said that his organization is “trying to establish a community of gamers in the area.” “In the long term, we’re pushing to get a more official media studies program here at Harvard,” said Decker, who is pursuing a special concentration in Interactive Media Studies. Fan Zhang ’09, who helped organize...
...contrast, Carmack, 36, says he is just a computer guy who got bored and taught himself rocket science. Yet in aerospace circles, the gamer and head of id Software is respected for doing results-oriented rocketry work on little dime. His shop in a suburban Dallas business complex looks like something out of Star Wars--Watto's junk shop on Tatooine, to be precise. Carmack takes you first to see his graveyard of old projects to explain his philosophy: Fly a whole lot, and learn where the gotchas are. He admits that he would like to go to the moon...
...prevailing image of Koreans in America is more StarCraft pro-gamer than sexy pop star, but the jam-packed Starr Auditorium is more than enough evidence that, while Harvard might not know it yet, the Hallyu is gaining momentum...
...video games from both a technological and humanities perspective—encompasses several academic areas. He plans to take classes in psychology, economics, computer science, and media studies, cross-enrolling at MIT for the media studies courses. “I’m not nearly as hardcore a gamer as some—I’m certainly obsessed with a couple of games, but I have a lot of faith in the medium going forward,” Decker said yesterday, citing online video game systems that can be used to model real economies with near perfection...
Skepticism about whether pro gaming is a sport--as compared with, say, pro fishing--isn't as important as the question of whether gaming can appeal to viewers. There's a difference between watching Peyton Manning threading a touchdown pass and watching a gamer control a character doing something onscreen...