Posts by David S Carter

Today the US Supreme Court hears arguments regarding AB 1179, the California bill restricting the sale and rental of violent video games to minors.

A heads-up that for fall break, the archive room will be closed from Saturday the 16 through Tuesday the 19th. We'll open again when classes resume on Wednesday the 20th.

Courtesy of the Website Elder-Geek here's The Insane Console History Video 2.0, a long (over 23 minutes!) slide show of nearly every home video game system ever. We obviously have a long way to go in the archive!

Last week we added the new PlayStation Move to the archive. The Move is the motion control system for the PS3, basically their answer to the Nintendo Wii, along with the bundled launch game Sports Champions (more Move-compatible games are on the way...)

On this day back in 1889 Fusajiro Yamauchi founded Nintendo in order to manufacture playing cards.121 years later, it has all led to this.

Rock Band-a-Palooza! Tuesday, September 14 (During Northfest), 11am - 2pm.In the Duderstadt Center Gallery. Play Rock Band on a giant screen!

The fall semester is back upon us, and so we return to our regular hours: Mon Noon- 9pm; Tue - Fri 10am - 9pm; Sat 1pm - 9pm (closed Sunday). Actually that's an expansion on our Saturday hours from last year, as we're now opening on Saturdays two hours earlier.

Our colleagues at the University of Michigan Press have released "My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft" by Bonnie Nardi. Here's the blurb.

World Cup Fever is sweeping the nation, and the CVGA is no exception! Those of you who follow this blog know that FIFA 10 has been one of our most popular games; so much so that the inner ring of the disc is starting to crack and deteriorate! But did you know that we have many other soccer games in the archive as well?

The game room of the Computer & Video Game Archive will be closed next week. We will reopen with our regular summer hours on Monday June 14.