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Bryan-Mitchell Young aka jccalhoun


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Question: Recently I've come across two or three reports that mention that Malvo on of teh DC snipers played Halo "in sniper mode." Now this sounds highly dubious to me. First of all I don't remember much use of a sniper rifle in Halo and secondly, the reports I've seen have been in relationship to Jack Thompson who was the lawyer who got this whole "snipers are gamers" thing going in the first place (Of course since according to the ESA 50% of people play games he had a pretty good chance of being correct).

Now can anyone hunt down the primary souce of this information? I certainly haven't been able to. I did a googlenews search and didn't come up with anything really concrete. So did Malvo play Halo or is this a case where Jack Thompson keeps saying something over and over and reporters print it?

posted by Bryan-Mitchell at 12:28 AM

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First-Person Shooters Aren't Like Movies and That is a Good Thing --A paper about why Shooters aren't like films and how comparisons to them do a disservice to what Shooters are.

That paper was presented at the 2002 PCA under the title "More Than Moving Pictures: Developing New Criteria For Designing and Critiquing Computer Games. The presentation version can be found here. The handout I distributed can be found here.

Identification in First-Person Shooters

Flow in Multi-player FPS gaming (.rtf file)

my reviews

here are a couple of reviews I wrote for joystick101.org

Mark J. P. Wolf's The Medium of the Video Game.
Arthur Asa Bergers Video Games: A Popular Culture Phenomenon.