I got a chance to talk with Nora Young of the CBC about ClimateFortnite, an amazing live stream project from Henri Drake, graduate student here at MIT. Drake brings together scientists to both play games and answer questions about climate science. A fascinating combo that seems to have really hooked some folks. Check out the…
Really thrilled to announce that my upcoming book on games and live streaming will be out (from Princeton University Press) in October. Just in time for TwitchCon! In addition to being available at Amazon (for pre-order there now too), a free Creative Commons pdf will also be available at watchmeplay.cc.
Last weekend we were fortunate to host some visitors from Tencent China for an extended two days of gaming and conversation. You can read the full write-up over at our GameLab blog. One of the things I did during the weekend was offer some opening remarks at a panel on the positive values of esports.…
Whew. I feel like the last half of spring was quite a sprint! Only now coming up for air enough to post a little update. Several terrific events happened post GDC that I’ll mention: AnyKey went to PAX East again where we got to spend a great weekend in the diversity lounge hanging out with…
I just got back from a pretty full week in SF for GDC. The trip kicked off with a visit to Twitch (see prior post) and then two talks at the conference itself. I spoke on Tuesday about the history of communities in building the esports scene and then gave a microtalk in the advocacy…