Library Blogs

To tie in with the LS&A Water Theme Semester, the Computer & Video Game Archive is hosting a Water Video Game Carnival March 21 - April 2. The following water-based games have been selected for the Carnival.

Our library table display for March is books about video games: The books were selected by the ULAs (Ben, Rebecca & Stephanie) and me; Stephanie put together the presentation. Come by the 2nd floor to check it out, and there are many more books in the stacks!

Do you find yourself wishing for more opportunities to use your Playstation Move? Due to be released in Spring 2011, Sony has come out with a software server application called Move.Me that allows you to use PS Move paraphernalia and a PC to create new software that can be used with the Move. Move.Me is designed specifically to be used by game software developers, researchers, and college nerds who are lying in wait to put their personal mark on the Move market.

Here is our Top 10 List for this past week. Melee has fallen down the list a bit to make room for Brotherhood, which has been popular amongst a few dedicated people, and NBA 2K11. We'll have to see if the Smashers can pick up the slack next week, when the archive reopens.

The CVGA will be closed during break week, February 26 through March 6. In addition, the archive room will not open until 1pm on Friday, February 25.

Here is the top games list from last week, with Kingdom Hearts for the PSP making a surprise appearance.

Students in Sheila Murphy's class SAC 368: Video Games as Culture/Form are this semester blogging about video games on their blog at http://videogameform.blogspot.com. There are some great posts there and I invite you to give it a look-see.

One of our regulars, Grace Lieb, wrote an article about the CVGA for LEAD Magazine, which never got to be published before she left the magazine. So here is the article, in its entirety. Thanks, Grace!

Here are the top 10 games played in the archive last week, with Rock Band coming back into the mix.

The new game room in the basement is getting very close to being completely set up, and here are a couple of pictures of its new (cleaner) home. We also decorated the place with a few fun decals from games that you might recognize.