Réflexions sur les jeux avec sucre en poudre, poivre en grain… et un peu de vitriol.
This paper presents a historical survey of the bond between video games and heavy metal cultures. It focuses on the video game arcades and Nintendo Entertainment System as sites of convergence, and then the challenges faced by both heavy metal and video games in USA policy from the PMRC and ESRB.
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The cognitive process of gameplay is modeled as more than a circle, but a dynamic evolving process: the magic cycle. Playing a game is an ever-increasing mastery as the spirals get wider, tackling higher-order questions through guesswork and trial-and-error in the heuristic spirals of gameplay and narrative.
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Like comic books and television before them, video games have had their
share in the spotlight of social debates. This chapter summarizes issues with violence (Death Race, Mortal Kombat, Doom), sexual content (Night Trap, Grand Theft Auto), or ideology (JFK: Reloaded, Bully, Rule of Rose).