“Multiple Literacies in 2008 Holiday Games”

The January epsoide of Games in Libraries podcast was released today.  The podcast itself is filled with a number of good interviews including one with the Video Game Librarian.  The final segment of the podcast includes a discussion about the multiple literacies being put into practice by some of the bigger games of the holiday 2008 season.  I talk about the traditional, media, visual, and information literacies at work within the following games:

• Little Big Planet
  
• Banjo-Kazooie
  
• Prince of Persia
• Mirror’s Edge
  
• Left 4 Dead
  
• Call of Duty: World at War
  
• Animal Crossing: City Folk
  
• Fallout 3
• Fable II
• The World of Goo
  
• Braid
  
• Valkyria Chronicles
  

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 I had initially hoped to get something posted here discussing of number of these games during the holiday season, but time got away from me.  My segment on the podcast is a condensed version of the possible discussion about the literacies at work within these games.  And that’s a discussion I’d like to come back to during this month. 

But until then… enjoy the podcast and please give me any thoughts or feedback on the connection between the video games discussed and literacy.  I’d love to hear your thoughts.