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		<title>Death Race and Video Game Violence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, ICHEG added the controversial arcade game Death Race to its collections. Released by Exidy in 1976, Death Race became the first arcade game to spur a national controversy over violence in video games.  A player of the game navigated a white car across the black screen as white stick figures, which developers called “gremlins,”...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.icheg.org/blog/chegheads/2012/05/death-race-and-video-game-violence/</link>
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		<title>Now Playing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nearly 600,000 guests come to The Strong annually, and many consider a visit to the arcade in eGameRevolution the highlight of their trip. Some visitors favor new games—slashing fruit on the giant touch-screen version of Fruit Ninja, munching opponents in the four-person Pac-Man Battle Royale, or playing the only Sega Giant Tetris game in North...]]></description>
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		<title>What if Dali Made Video Games?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PBS recently launched the Idea Channel, a bi-weekly series that examines the evolving relationship between modern technology and art. In the episode “Super Mario Brothers as Surrealist Art?”, host Mike Rungetta advocated for the game’s place in the canon of great surrealists. In reviewing the gameplay experience, Rungetta said “you eat a flower that lets...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.icheg.org/blog/chegheads/2012/04/what-if-dali-made-video-games/</link>
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		<title>The Magic Circle: Cheating in Video Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Players disagree about what constitutes cheating. In her book, Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Videogames, Mia Consalvo defines cheating as an action that “breaks the magic circle,” meaning players leave the imaginary world to reach outside for answers. This “magic circle” concept originated in Dutch historian Johan Huizinga’s book Homo Ludens, in which he explains how...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.icheg.org/blog/chegheads/2012/04/the-magic-circle-cheating-in-video-games/</link>
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		<title>Minecraft and the Building Blocks of Fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Minecraft fever struck my house. All four of my children now play the game and one Saturday morning my kids showed me the houses, sheep farms, mines, and other creations they built in the game using blocks they mined or harvested from stone, ore, wood, or other materials. The buildings were creative, beautiful, and...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.icheg.org/blog/chegheads/2012/04/minecraft-and-the-building-blocks-of-fun/</link>
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		<title>WoW Server Blade and the History of Role-Playing Video Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With more than 10 million subscribers and a Guinness World Record for most popular MMORPG, Blizzard’s World of Warcraft (WoW) ushered in a new generation of online gaming. Last year, Blizzard auctioned approximately 2,000 original WoW server blades (stripped-down server computer) to benefit St. Jude’s Research Hospital, and ICHEG was pleased to add one to...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.icheg.org/blog/chegheads/2012/03/wow-sever-blade-and-the-history-of-role-playing-video-games/</link>
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		<title>Video Games for Your Health</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a list of cliché complaints that you likely hear on a daily basis: I was so worried about such and such, I couldn’t sleep. I got so bored running on the treadmill, I just wanted to slide off the back of it at full speed. I should not have ordered that ______ (fill...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.icheg.org/blog/chegheads/2012/03/video-games-for-your-health/</link>
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		<title>Fun with Video Game Versions of Archaeology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Temple Run, an iPhone game, was recently the rage at my son’s school, so he downloaded it to my phone. It’s a basic survival game in which the player, an explorer, flees with the idol from a jungle temple. The game rewards quick decisions as the player tries to stay on the path and jump...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.icheg.org/blog/chegheads/2012/02/fun-with-video-game-versions-of-archaeology/</link>
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		<title>Video Games aMuse Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Man Ray and Elizabeth Lee Miller to Picasso and Marie-Therese Walter, the story of an artist and his muse proves just as striking as the artwork itself. Today, video games both inspire art and serve as a muse. Three different video game projects recently caught my fancy. A few years ago, I went to...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.icheg.org/blog/chegheads/2012/02/video-games-amuse-me/</link>
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		<title>Star Wars: The Old Republic: A Force-Filled Video Game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I heard about Bioware’s 2011 release of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Star Wars: The Old Republic (SW:TOR), nostalgia consumed me and I immediately added it to my wish list. This holiday season, the game proved the shiniest toy under my tree. SW:TOR puts the player in the center of conflict between the...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.icheg.org/blog/chegheads/2012/01/star-wars-the-old-republic-a-force-filled-video-game/</link>
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