Brief classical thoughts on "No Russian"
This blog may have some readers who have managed to miss the controversy surrounding the single-player campaign of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (MW2). To orient you, my VGHVI colleague Erik Hanson brought together some of the most important responses to the controversy on the VGHVI

Operation KTHMA: handing over the reins
See this hub for a guide to my posts on Operation KTHMA.Here's what I uploaded over the weekend to the KTHMA team. The idea of requiring the students to start telling the story, as engagement and as assess

Noted: Michael Abbott on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 marketing
I'd be quite surprised if there were anyone who reads this little blog who doesn't also (and indeed more frequently) read Michael Abbott's The Brainy Gamer, but just in case, and in tribute to his wonderful post this morning, I'd like to point any such hypothetical reader to a great example of the power of the blog form, which is at the same time the most incisive analysis of the forces controlling AAA gaming I think I've ever read. Here's what I posted in Michael's comments:From my hobby horse, blaming Infinity Ward for this callousness is like blaming the homeric bards for the graphic violence and

Operation KTHMA: arts, crafts, and card-based combat
See this hub for a guide to my posts on Operation KTHMA.The boss-fight with the High Priest of Apollo at Delphi delivered the information I was hoping my students would get about how Delphi actually worked, ac

Operation KTHMA: the road to Delphi
Yesterday the team made its way from Athens to Delphi by way of a series of short encounters with their new acquaintance Olorides, who turns out to be Cimon's great-nephew and thus himself a member of the Philaidai. Each night of the arduous journey, they could get one "hit" in on Olorides b