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Exploring the Potential and Challenges of Historical Video Games
Historical video games represent a unique convergence of digital entertainment and educational media, blending immersive experiences with history…
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Christopher Gerteis
Ghost of Tsushima: Visual Historiography and Cultural Mythmaking
Ghost of Tsushima (2020) is more than a stylish samurai adventure – it is a case study in how video games construct and circulate a vision of Japanese…
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Leroy King
Japanese studios scramble to hire anime creatives
Read the full story at: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Media-Entertainment/Wanted-30-000-animators.-Japan-s-anime-future-at-risk
US Food & Drug Agency bungled AI rollout
Read the full article at: https://tinyurl.com/38mhs7y8
The AI jobs apocalypse?
Brian Merchant on AI
Why the Island Is Silent
Reframing the Prototype as a Node in a Distributed System of Refusal
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Christopher Gerteis
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Bill Mihalopoulos
Silicon Valley is selling human augmentation
But it is buying human replacement
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Christopher Gerteis
The Persistence of 'Stochastic Parrots': LLMs and the False Promise of Universality
When Bender, Gebru, McMillan-Major, and Shmitchell published their critique of large language models in 2021, it was received as a timely intervention.
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Christopher Gerteis
“Steam Users Turn ‘Blue Prince’ Reviews into a Comedy Showcase”
@ 'Push to Talk'
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Christopher Gerteis
“How People Are Really Using Gen AI in 2025”
Marc Zao-Sanders examines the evolving landscape of generative AI usage in 2025, highlighting the emergence of Custom GPTs, new platforms like DeepSeek…
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Christopher Gerteis
Superjoost on Gaming's counter-cycle
Very much worth the read…
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Christopher Gerteis
Anime Creators to Get Career Boost from New Organization, as Japan Looks to Grow Overseas Market
An opportunity for game creators?
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Christopher Gerteis
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