Many thanks to Darren Torpey, who took video of the July meeting and posted it online. It’s about an hour long and is available in 6 parts, embedded below and on this Youtube playlist.

Chris Parsons of Muzzy Lane just sent us a video he made of our March “Made in MA” PAX party! If you have any video or pictures, send them our way and we’ll post them here (either comment on this post or email us).

We received this note from GAMBIT this morning about their new podcast:

Today is the official release of the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab Research Video Podcast Series. http://gambit.mit.edu/ Founded in 2006, the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab sets itself apart by emphasizing the creation of video game prototypes to demonstrate our research as a complement to traditional academic publishing. Our monthly Research Video Podcast Series serves to showcase our unique mission here at GAMBIT to not only the games industry but to those who still remain unclear as to the nature of video game studies. This Research Video Podcast Series helps make this process transparent. We hope you enjoy it. Best Generoso Fierro

Mia Consalvo, of Comparative Media Studies at MIT, gave a talk on December 3rd titled "Western Otaku: Games Crossing Cultures." You can view the whole video online.

From Nintendo’s first Famicom system, Japanese consoles and videogames have played a central role in the development and expansion of the digital game industry. Players globally have consumed and enjoyed Japanese games for many reasons, and in a variety of contexts. This study examines one particular subset of videogame players, for whom the consumption of Japanese videogames in particular is of great value, in addition to their related activities consuming anime and manga from Japan. Through in-depth interviews with such players, this study investigates how transnational fandom operates in the realm of videogame culture, and how a particular group of videogame players interprets their gameplay experience in terms of a global, if hybrid, industry.

Mia Consalvo is visiting associate professor in the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT. She is the author of Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Videogames and is co-editor of the forthcoming Blackwell Handbook of Internet Studies. 

We’ve just posted the video from the November Boston Post Mortem meeting, our artificial intelligence panel.

Special thanks to Yilmaz Kiymaz for taking the video and giving us permission to post it!

 We’ve (finally!) posted up video from the April Post Mortem, which was Steve Meretzky’s big farewell. You can view the whole thing right here.

POST MORTEM: Steve Meretzky Send Off from Darius Kazemi on Vimeo.