Portfolio: Hard Korr Gamer – The archive

This is the repository for Hard Korr Gamer, my defunct St. Petersburg Times video game blog. The blog won first place for online commentary/blogs in the 2006 Society of Professional Journalists Green Eyeshade Awards, recognizing the best journalism in 11 Southeastern states; and placed third in the 2007 Green Eyeshade Awards. Whee! Any new posts about video games will go on the main Korr Values blog, but I wanted to put these old posts for posterity’s sake.

Award-Winning Posts:

• Winning entry for Online Commentary/Blogs in the SPJ 2006 Green Eyeshade Awards:
  • Video games as art, Prelude: Why Roger Ebert is right
  • Video games as art, Part I: The auteur problem
  • Video games as art, Part II: Gamers aren’t Michael Chabon
  • Video games as art, Part III: Some narratives are more equal than others
  • Video games as art, Part IV: Respecting games as games

• 3rd-Place entry for Best Blog in the SPJ 2007 Green Eyeshade Awards. (Note: The entry included two other posts, but I embarrassingly don’t remember which they were. They’re two of the notable posts below, but I can’t be sure which.)
  • The lost days of gaming past
  • Why Virtua Fighter is like Magic: the Gathering
  • Why I’m not in love with Zelda: Twilight Princess

Other notable posts:

• Social gaming: high scores or actual fun?
• The Jar Jar problem
• The Robert Thompson problem
• Why “early adopters should pay more” doesn’t work
• Hating on Madden
• The long tail and video games, Part I
• The long tail and video games, Part II
• Growing the gaming audience: Geometry Wars vs. Nintendogs and Brain Training
• Immersion means more than losing the health bar
• The “game” problem
• The used game problem
• More on hardcore vs. mainstream
• Who needs a souped-up Frogger?
• Sony wants to sell Blu-ray, we want to play video games: A primer
• My Robocop nightmares; or, Should we shield our kids from violent entertainment?
• The auteur problem, revisited
• Let me start the game already!!!!!
• Sony and Nintendo: A Talmudic parable
• The best-looking sports game ever made
• Virtual reality: Still a sham
• Virtual reality: A response
• Video games’ casual racism
• We’ve come a long way since Columbine
• Why racing games all seem the same
• What does “worthwhile” mean, anyway?
• How Zelda keeps video games inferior to movies and books
• Tiger Woods for Wii: What a waste

Posts by Month:

• November 2005
• December 2005
• January 2006
• February 2006
• March 2006
• April 2006
• May 2006
• June 2006
• July 2006
• August 2006
• September 2006
• October 2006
• November 2006
• December 2006
• January 2007
• February 2007
• March 2007
• April 2007
• May 2007
• June 2007
• July 2007