The Impact Factor

News & Views

1/17/15-1/23/15

Happy Friday! I am glad to bring everyone my first actual News and Views post. Every week I curate a small selection of the articles, videos, and miscellaneous things I find around the web. I hope to always present some of the most interesting, provocative, or otherwise impactful pieces. If any of you have something not here, please feel free to leave it in the comments!

Spotlight

Confronting Videogame Torture, After the CIA's Report 

Roy Graham, Kill Screen Daily

Worth Reading

Mass Effect’s universe gets ugly when a Paragon decision finally backfires

Patrick Lee, A.V. Club

Green Bay's Board-Game Obsession

Kevin Clark, WSJ

Gaming while black: Casual racism to cautious optimism

Jessica Conditt, Joystiq

Conservative, stuffy old Nintendo and its weird habit of wild radicalism

Colin Campbell, Polygon

Seeing without crosshairs: a survey of the first-person non-shooter

Chaz Evans, A.V. Club

Destiny sleuth uses science to conclude The Last City is likely located in Chile

Samit Sarkar, Polygon

And the rest!

Japan Unveils Designs For First Underwater City, And We're In Awe

Suzy Strutner, Huffington Post

BioShock and Rapture say hello!

Evo 2015 Lineup Announced

Ian Walker, Shoryuken

A great selection of games for the world's biggest fighting game competition. I watch every year!

A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn

John Skylar

A depressing look at the financial cost of being a career scientist.