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Hace unos días me volvieron a preguntar por la definición de videojuego y recordé este texto que se publicó en la desaparecida revista Deus…

Hoy se cumplen 10 años de la defensa de mi tesis doctoral, Libertad dirigida: análisis formal del videojuego como sistema, su estructura y…

Se cumplen 10 años de la defensa de mi tesis doctoral sobre la libertad dirigida en el videojuego. Había planeado tener un nuevo texto…

Here are some thoughts from a practical idealist:

Mañana, 11 de octubre, el festival de Sitges recupera Level Five (1997), película experimental de Chris Marker que incluye el jugar, el…

In the first entry of this pseudo-series, I wrote: “So, September is here. A new academic year begins and a good way to get back to a…

Este texto se publicó en 2017 como capítulo del libro ‘Los Beatles. Sgt. Pepper’s a través del espejo’, (T&B Editores) editado por Francesc…

El 9 de julio se cumplen 40 años del estreno de Tron en Estados Unidos (a España llegaría el 24 de marzo del año siguiente, 1983) y para…

Like in 2019 and 2020, I wanted to start the academic year looking back and going through everything I had done (academia-wise) the…

This is a brief note to share that a book I co-edited is out. It has actually been out since November, but with one (pandemic) thing and…

Este texto se publicó originalmente el 25 de marzo de 2020 en MundoGamers.com, una web que tristemente cerró hace poco. Debido a ello, lo…

September is here, again. Wait, is it October already? It actually feels like we’re still in March what with one thing and another —  or…

Life is absurd. But there is one meaningful thing, one inarguable thing, and that is that there is suffering. Fine writing helps alleviate…

Two texts I’ve written on the matter of slow games (in 2016 and 2020).

This was published in 2017 in the book 100 Greatest Video Game Characters, edited by Jamie Banks, Robert Mejia, and Aubrie Adams.

In-Game is a project by photographer Javier Roca about videogames and the people that play them. Through a series of reflections on…

In 2019, I set out to read one book in each of the three languages I was confident I could do so without actually speaking: Italian…

As soon as the Ouya was “killed”, it was a matter of time until someone began organizing a project to preserve it. The same way there is…

A YouTube video at the Did You Know Gaming channel caught my attention today:

I have defended play and games as central elements for the good life. Defending games as anything else than that (because the make…

(This is a quick translation of the entry dedicated to The Flying Luna Clipper in my last book, Cine Ludens: 50 diálogos entre el juego y…

It’s a question I’m often asked, and every time someone asks it I try to avoid simple or automatic answers: “How come you settled on…

So, September is here. A new academic year begins, and a good way to get back to a scholarly mood is, in my experience, to go through…

Last year, my colleague Antonio Loriguillo-López invited me to a panel at the EAJS2017 15th International Conference of the European…