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Bryan-Mitchell Young aka jccalhoun


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As far as the Malvo Halo thing goes, I have been able to track it down to a Washington Post article. It seems that according to the article there is one witness who is claiming that Muhammad trained Malvo at a shooting range and also encouraged him to play Halo. So maybe there is some truth to it. However, Jack Thompson's labling Halo a sniper game is quite a bit of a stretch. Personally, before I ran across this I forgot that Halo even had a sniper mode (of course that certainly doesn't mean that just because I forgot about it, doesn't make the story totally impossible).

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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.