Morgan Romine
I am a techno anthropologist studying culture in online games. I recently retired from my role as the Team Captain of the Frag Dolls (an all-female professional gaming team), and am now daylighting as the eSports Maven for Red 5 Studios. We are making Firefall, the game and fieldsite of my dreams.
Gamers know me as "Rhoulette".
For more about my research, see Games, Virtual Worlds, and CyberSociality, a group in Computer and Information Science, Social Sciences, Design on Mendeley.
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Marriage Proposal of the Day: In what is believed to be the first proposal of marriage between two gay...
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Want in on the Ghost Recon & Ghost Recon Online betas? Pixxel shows you how. http://ow.ly/avLWV
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PMS Texas: My life as a disabled gamer
When I was born, my parents had been expecting a healthy baby…boy. Instead, the received a surprise...
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9yr old makes his own Cardboard Arcade.Caine is nine. And like all the best nine year-olds in the world, Caine is obsessed with video games. In...
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My Gamer Story
This is a goodbye blog but because I’m me and because my brain NEVER works in the same order as everyone else’s I’m not...
This article just keeps on giving me happy theoretical footholds. Not to mention funny cross-cultural double entendres.
I LOVE LATOUR! I’m fond of Graham Harman’s treatment of him, too. Good Sunday reading. I mean, I should be writing, but this is as justifiable a distraction as I can get.
Our friends @ExtraCreditz have done another great piece of commentary, this time about a topic I know well: Harassment in Online Games. Thanks for the topic, suggestions, and a mention! I am happy to have contributed.
He’s written fascinating pieces about game studies as informed by aesthetic or comparative literature approaches, including Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature. I’ve been particularly enjoying his 2007 Games and Culture article Game Classification and Game Design: Construction Through Critical Analysis, but for an intro to his work, check out www.gamestudies.org
TL Taylor’s “Raising the Stakes: E-Sports and the Professionalization of Computer Gaming” just came out last month!
TL is one of my favorite game studies researchers, and this book couldn’t better represent the overlap of my professional and academic interests.
and stoked to be revisiting so many awesome Games Studies books. Especially helpful this week: Salen & Zimmerman’s Rules of Play.
How I often socialize at house parties.
Excellent recap of the growth of eSports in 2011. For those who aren’t familiar with what I am helping to build as Red 5 Studios’ “eSports Maven”, this is my professional world in a nutshell.
… though I’m not sure if Mr. T and the A Team counts as “geek”. Still awesome.
