First Person Scholar turns a year old today! A special thanks goes out to those that have contributed their writing to the site, as well as our readers. I think we’ve had a very successful year, and it’s thanks to you! Continue Reading
In our interview with Brendan Keogh a while back, I asked him about the state of contemporary game studies. In particular, I asked him if he thought contemporary academic models were ill-suited to a medium which seems to change so rapidly, and I was a little surprised by his answer Continue Reading
[The following article contains spoilers regarding The Last of Us involving a conversation between the two main characters. It is unrelated to the main plot but may be considered a crucial moment of character building.] This is the moment I’ve been waiting for in videogames, for so many reasons. This subtle withdrawal of the dialogue is a tasteful moment of maturation for the format. Films such as Sophia Coppola’s Lost in Translation and Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt feature similar moments and, while not suggesting that games need emulate film, the inclusion of this moment in The Last of Us effectively raises the bar for storytelling techniques in game production. (And we’re all waiting for that landmark game to come about. Where is our Citizen Kane? Continue Reading
Michael Hancock is the Book Reviews editor on First Person Scholar. He is a PhD candidate in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo. Currently, his grey matter is engaged in writing a dissertation on… Continue Reading