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Rhetorics of Fantasy in Ni No Kuni

May 21, 2014Michael Hancock

The issue of whether a videogame should be studied as a game or a narrative has, to put it mildly, been done to death. In fact, even saying that it’s been done to death has been done to death. So let’s skip past all that to a more interesting question: what does narrative theory have to offer game studies, and vice versa? Continue Reading →

Essay Farah Mendlesohn, Michael Hancock, Ni No Kuni

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Reading Mia Consalvo's Cheating

February 12, 2014Michael Hancock 12 Comments

Michael Hancock is a PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo, and book reviews editor at FPS. He is also sad no one has yet submitted a review of McKenzie Wark’s Gamer Theory. Epi(c)texts and Ni No Kuni by Michael… Continue Reading →

Commentary Mia Consalvo, Michael Hancock, Ni No Kuni, Spelunky

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