I just linked my Xbox Live ID to the Rockstar Social Club. Needless to say, this opens up a new dimension to the study. Now, I will enter Niko's shoes for another play session. It will be interesting to see how the Social Club integrates to the play experience - if it does - and how it manages to tap into the social media phenomenon of today.
About the author
- Aki Järvinen
- Aki, 37, is an academic and entrepreneur in the field of games, based in Helsinki, Finland. Järvinen has studied and developed various kinds of games for the last ten years, both academically and commercially. Järvinen also has experience from game journalism, concept design, and copy editing. His doctoral dissertation, Games without Frontiers: Theories and Methods for Game Studies and Design, completed in March 2008, has been dubbed as ‘Remarkable and ambitious piece of work’ by James Paul Gee, the author of video game books, (e.g. What Video Games have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy), and as a work that ‘successfully reconfigures the landscape of video game studies’ by leading Video game theorist Jesper Juul from MIT (author of Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds) . See also: Games without Frontiers
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