getting into the game
Gametrailers.com is a great video game community for beginners and expert to interact with. There are interviews, upcoming games, surprise miscellaneous from fans, and most importantly Retrospective aka the past. I would like the group to take a look about War of Warcraft Retrospective.
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Watched it
Good information about the history of video games, genres, and about the roots of WoW. This was a well done documentary style retrospective, although the narrator sounds rushed, (pause for a breath!). The target audience for the documentary was clearly video game enthusiasts; WoW players in particular.
It would be good to see something similar that is for the general public that talks about the human behavior and sociology of the game.
Did you notice the large role that those two illustrators played in the creation of game characters? When you look at video game jobs, the largest two categories are the programmers and the artists.
WoW
For those that don't know World of Warcraft or WoW, as it is often referred to, it is a virtual world. It is classified as an MMORPG it has more than 10 million subscribers worldwide. It has won many awards and is considered to be one of the best video games of all time.
After the "corrupted blood" epidemic affected WoW, scientists at Tufts University were surprised at how closely it resembled a real outbreak of disease. They are studying this as a means of better predicting human behaviour in future pandemics.
And Yes, I plan to watch this retrospective.