Video Game Speedrunning: Beyond eSports

In the past decade or so, much attention has fallen on the burgeoning popularity of eSports, multiplayer video games played competitively in a sport-like context. The most popular titles are largely real-time strategy, fighting, or first-person shooter games, such as League of Legends, Defense of the Ancients, Counter-Strike, Fortnite, and Super Smash Bros, and the …

Video Games as Art: Introspection

What follows is a paper I wrote for a class I took my first semester of college in the fall of 2017, titled “Philosophical Reflections on Science and Technology”. The class itself was my first formal introduction to the philosophical mode of thought and dialogue–we read writers such as Martin Heidegger, Jacques Ellul, and Neil …

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