Category Archives: Theoryblasts

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ReHate: Video Game Morality Play

Video Game Morality Play gives you an opportunity to look a little bit into your psyche as a gamer…or does it? KILL ALL THE NAZIS GET ALL THE SCORE.

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ReHate: Video Game Morality Play

Video Game Morality Play gives you an opportunity to look a little bit into your psyche as a gamer…or does it? KILL ALL THE NAZIS GET ALL THE SCORE.

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ReHate: Jane McGonigal/TEDTalks – SuperBetter

Dr. Rance Quest Magnum encourages you to check out Jane McGonigal’s real life game, SuperBetter, and wonders whether or not you think it’s a theory worth applying to your own life.

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ReHate: Jane McGonigal/TEDTalks – SuperBetter

Dr. Rance Quest Magnum encourages you to check out Jane McGonigal’s real life game, SuperBetter, and wonders whether or not you think it’s a theory worth applying to your own life.

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Videohate: Good Gamescape, Bro

Holy shit! Dr. Rance Quest Magnum blasts your brain apart with his very first videohate theoryblast, introducing his theory of gamescapes.

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Videohate: Good Gamescape, Bro

Holy shit! Dr. Rance Quest Magnum blasts your brain apart with his very first videohate theoryblast, introducing his theory of gamescapes.

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Support the Artist or the Art: Bringing Formalism to Games

Dr. Rance Quest Magnum explores the application of formalism to video games and intends to put you directly to sleep.

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Support the Artist or the Art: Bringing Formalism to Games

Dr. Rance Quest Magnum explores the application of formalism to video games and intends to put you directly to sleep.

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Video Games Make Me Racist

Dr. Rance Quest Magnum admits that games have made him a little racist. And classist. And nationalist. Guess what? They’ve made you those things too.

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Video Games Make Me Racist

Dr. Rance Quest Magnum admits that games have made him a little racist. And classist. And nationalist. Guess what? They’ve made you those things too.

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A Poor Man’s Guide to the Theory of Games: A Beginning

Dr. Rance Quest Magnum gives a few definitions about modern gaming theory so you can be a lifeless bastard like he is!

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A Poor Man’s Guide to the Theory of Games: A Beginning

Dr. Rance Quest Magnum gives a few definitions about modern gaming theory so you can be a lifeless bastard like he is!

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Invisible Meta-Narratives

Games are meant to engage our creativity, but do they do so enough nowadays? Dr. Rance Quest Magnum tries to sound smart by coining a new term nobody else will ever use.

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Invisible Meta-Narratives

Games are meant to engage our creativity, but do they do so enough nowadays? Dr. Rance Quest Magnum tries to sound smart by coining a new term nobody else will ever use.