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One Year

My 365 Days Playing FPS

July 23, 2014Meghan Blythe Adams

Previous editorials at First Person Scholar have correctly discussed the important position held by middle-state publishing. I’m inclined, however, to talk a bit more personally about my relationship with FPS. The benefits I’ve had from my involvement are likely also felt by some other scholars involved in similar (and awesomely dissimilar) projects, but at heart this writing is in no way aimed at objective claims that can be assigned to every middle-state-publisher – this is just about the one I think of as partially mine. Continue Reading →

FPS – Year One

A By-the-Numbers Look At Our First Year

December 5, 2013Steve Wilcox

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 →

Hybrid Publishing

The Case for the Middle-State

July 31, 2013Jason Hawreliak 3 Comments

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 →

Meta-Commentary

The Last of Us & the State of Games Criticism

July 24, 2013KENT AARDSE 3 Comments

[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 →

The Games Canon; or Canon Games

July 17, 2013Michael Hancock

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 →