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The Problems of Subscription Gaming

From Enduring Impressions: World of Warcraft

Blizzard has an enormous amount of revenue coming in from their cash-cow MMO. Millions of dollars a month sounds like it could allow for a lot of investment in game design. And yet that's not what we're seeing in the upcoming Cataclysm expansion.

Persuasiveness in Games: What Does It Mean?

From "Can Videgames be Art?"

When a work of art brings you so deeply into its world that you forget what is and is not possible, you're a captive of persuasiveness. Videogames do this too, and in some pretty amazing ways.

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