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LIST TIME! Below is a list of 50+ academics on Twitter who study or write about the overlap between video games and fields like psychology, communications, sociology, law, and more. The list was mostly generated by readers like you so. This is awesome, but it also means no guarantees about how much these people tweet, but I know that I found at least a few new sites and accounts to follow.

Thanks to everyone who contributed! If you have one to add, leave it in the comments.

• Alix, Florent: Game mechanics in interaction design and service design
  Website | Twitter
• Aranzaes, Hugo: Video Game Psychology
  Website | Twitter
• Bailenson, Jeremy: Virtual worlds, virtual reality
  Website | Twitter
• Banks, Jamie: Virtual worlds, user-technology relationship
  Website | Twitter
• Barr, Matthew: Video games & learning, research developer and games studies lecturer
  Website | Twitter
• Bogost, Ian: Game designer
  Website | Twitter
• Boudreau, Kelly: Avatar/player hybridity, player culture, social media games
  Website | Twitter
• Bowman, Nick: Communications, interactive media
  Website | Twitter
• Bushman, Brad: Violence in video games
  Website | Twitter
• Cardona, Josué: Geek culture, health, counseling and eduction
  Website | Twitter
• Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio: AI, cognitive psychology, narrative
  Website | Twitter
• Chapman, Adam: Historical video games and the video game as a historical form.
  Website | Twitter
• Chen, Mark: Ethnography of games, Leet Noobs author
  Website | Twitter
• Consalvo, Mia: Games studies, cheating
  Website | Twitter
• Dickinson, Ted: Advertising in gaming
  Twitter
• Dill-Shackleford, Karen: Media psychologist, Editor of the Oxford Handbook of Media Psychology
  Twitter
• Eden, Allison: Media psychology and entertainment research
  Twitter
• Ferguson, Christopher: Aggression, methods, meta analysis, children
  Website | Twitter
• Fox, Jesse: Virtual environments (especially health, pro-environmental), avatars, agents, representations of sex, gender, and sexuality in games
  Website | Twitter
• Fritsch, Melanie: Video Games music, virtual worlds research
  Website | Twitter
• Good, Berni: Video Game Psychologist
  Website | Twitter
• Griffiths, Mark: Gambling, video game addiction
  Website | Twitter
• Heron, Michael: Accessibility and video games and text games
  Website | Twitter
• Hilgard, Joseph : Preferences, addiction, violence, effects of game mechanics, statistics
  Website | Twitter
• Huskey, Richard: Media Neuroscience, neural correlates of flow, evolutionary motivations for gameplay
  Website | Twitter
• Ivory, James: Game content, game structure, game effects
  Website | Twitter
• Jansz, Jeroen: Communications, media
  Website | Twitter
• Jones, Sherry: Philosophy and rhetoric in games, games based learning
  Website | Twitter
• Kowert, Rachel: Stereotypes of gamers, game involvement and social competence
  Website | Twitter
• Kuniak, Steve: Geek/gamer culture
  Website | Twitter
• Lastowka, Greg: Virtual World, intellectual property, and Internet law
  Website | Twitter
• Lewis Evans, Ben: Human factors psychologist, gamer, researcher, teacher, presenter
  Website | Twitter
• Lin, Jeffrey: Player behaviors in League of Legends
  Twitter
• Madigan, Jamie: Psychology and video games
  Website | Twitter
• McGonigal, Jane: Positive psychology, education, game design
  Website | Twitter
• McReady, David: Writer, blogger, podcaster
  Website | Twitter
• Media Neuroscience Lab: Narratives & morality, interactive narratives & violence, persuasion neuroscience
  Website | Twitter
• Monu, Kafui: Research Associate, Use of games in business and organizations, gameful design, system analysis
  Website | Twitter
• O’Connor, Patrick: Psychology, comics, and mental health
  Website | Twitter
• Ortiz de Gortari, Angelica: Game transfer phenomenon
  Website | Twitter
• Przybylski, Andrew: Motivation, psychology, games, Internet, self-regulation, psychosocial functioning
  Website | Twitter
• Ralph, Paul: Design theory, gameful design, gamification
  Website | Twitter
• Ross, Travis: Motivation, media design, cognitive psychology
  Website | Twitter
• Schnell, Jessee: Game design
  Website | Twitter
• Sicart, Miguel: Ethics in video games
  Website | Twitter
• Spiel, Katharina: Accessibility and adaptiveness in video games and text games
  Twitter
• Stigell, Louise: Video game psychology and gamification
  Website | Twitter
• Sutherland, John: Editor in Chief of the Computer Games Journal
  Website | Twitter
• Togelius, Julian: AI in games, procedural content generation, player modeling
  Website | Twitter
• Video Game Research: research of all kinds related to video games
  Website | Twitter
• Vorderer, Peter: Game enjoyment, interactivity, media
  Website | Twitter
• Wearn, Nia: LudoLiteracy, teaching games design, adapting industry models & production methodologies to work in an educational setting
  Website | Twitter
• Weststar, Johanna: Working conditions, quality of life, citizenship at work, sustainability
  Website | Twitter
• White, Lauren: Cognitive psychology, learning in games, cognitive benefits from gaming Website | Twitter
• Yee, Nick: Virtual Worlds
  Website | Twitter
• Yen Tang, Wai: Blogger, grad student (communication & psychology)
  Website | Twitter
• Young, Bryan-Mitchell: Ethnography of LAN parties, performances of gender and race
  Website | Twitter

Again, if you know of someone who should be on this list but isn’t, leave a comment below.

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Logos comes out of nowhere with an insane long player for Keysounds. This is some of the most inspiring, future-looking techno manipulation we’ve heard since Jam City blew ears up with the still jarring Classical Curves. And really, Curves, is just about the only foil that comes to mind when toying around with Cold Mission conceptually. The isolated, perfectly sculpted sounds take me back to the JG Ballard-tinged streets of sex and magic that Jam City toured me through so long ago. But still, something tastes different…

It could be that Logos opts for the more overtly psychedelic at every point that Jam City would choose restrained, blunt sonic objects. This allows for engagement at a different level. Logos wraps listeners up into a meditative headspace at points, like the blissful “E3 Night Flight” or the creepy “Swarming,” which features labelmate Rabit.

Cold Mission really holds its own when it operates both inside and outside of Eski Grime and ‘Step cliches. This occurs during an awe-inspiring 1-2-3 punch right in the middle of the disc. “Sea Wolf” and “Alien Shapes” replace the generic guts of UK electronic movements with space, allowing object fetish comparable to Oneohtrix Point Never. “Menace” furthers the method more successfully, operating on a level that is sinisterly approachable, like a surgical, club-aware distant cousin to the Modern Love crew. Logos’ sound is their own, though – can’t wait to see where it goes next.

Stream some samples of Cold Mission below and track it down here.

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Stephen Bishop, under his Basic House moniker, originally released Caim In Bird Form on his own Opal Tapes label, which thereafter got the vinyl treatment from Digitalis Records. The album reflects the mission of his label as a purveyor of dilletantism and textural discovery. Bishop’s logic here is equal parts playful and cerebral; technical musicality inherently veers away from a true notion experimentalism. How can we call a piece of music that’s been calculated and overdubbed and mixed down an experiment anymore? His solution is to keep the arrangement minimal and draw our attention to the sounds of the recorded medium slowly pummeling, melting, and gouging at the instrumentation.

“I don’t remember acid,” is the percussive equivalent of wax beaten with a two by four; the upper spectrum of drum blows mutate into tones, and the lower end gets pounded into a gluey bass detritus. “TV Illness” captures the tangible sounds of an angelic drone reverberating and rustling through a ceramic room. Bishop sums up his sound best in an interview with Sonic Router, “When you get high in the toilets at clubs and you can hear the music from the main room but it’s reflected by the tiled walls and floor and all the sounds of communication and sex and hand dryers and stuff. This is what I’m thinking about with Basic House. It’s the middle ground between the dancefloor and toilet bowl.”

Buy it on wax here.

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Oh, my heart: “Point Break” by Maxine Gambus for Éditions du livre.

Since before your sun burned hot in space and before your race was born, I have awaited a GOG Winter Promo.

I’ve always felt Saturnalia season doesn’t really begin until the end-of-year sales hit–which I guess means it’s time to amp up the debauchery here at RDBK central. GOG’s kicked off the festivities early with a Steam-sized sale that lasts from now until December 29. Over 600 games are 50% off for the duration, and a bunch more will be rotating in as daily deals with even deeper discounts. The inaugural daily deals include Ultima Underworld 1+2, Legend of Grimrock, Shadow Warrior (2013) and more.

For the first 48 hours of the sale, the original Fallout trilogy is free of charge. These have long been considered among the best RPGs ever, but now their gameplay per dollar ratio is literally impossible to compute. What’s more, after the new year they’re being pulled from GOG’s shelves, so this is your last best chance to get them DRM-free (not to mention, just plain free). A company press release explains:

The celebrated forefathers of today’s post-apocalyptic RPGs–Fallout 1,2, and Fallout Tactics–will be available for free for the first 48 hours of the Winter Promo. As the rights for this celebrated franchise are changing hands at the end of the year, GOG.com will no longer be able to sell the titles, although they will remain on users’ shelves if they already own them.  So it’s time to act now and grab the complete original Fallout series or forever hold your gently glowing radioactive pieces.

Remember that you can buy from GOG with relative impunity: if you experience technical problems the company offers an industry-leading 30-day money-back guarantee.

以前の私はかわいいアニメのクレジットカードを取得するためにあなたの読者を助言した。 さて、残念ながら私は私のアドバイスを撤回しなければならない。 Amerikkkaにおけるピューリタンかわいらしさに応じ顔をしかめ、あなたが法的なトラブルに巻き込まれます。

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Having a credit card with Idolmaster characters plastered across the surface is good enough to get you arrested in the U.S these days. That is precisely what happened to a Japanese Twitter user’s father on a recent trip to Los Angeles. The card was so cute that it was mistaken as a fake, which resulted in the Japanese man being arrested by local authorities.

それはこの日および年齢でオタクは西洋社会でのけ者として扱われることは悲しいです。何が公正な社会の無法者の可愛さ？

Here, spinach that has been wilted and squeezed, is re-plumped, so to speak, with creme fraiche, parmesan, salt and pepper, and is generously spread over a tiny pizza. An egg centers on this pile (and sometimes around it, at least in my kitchen) and the whole mess is baked together until the edges of the pizzette are brown, the spinach is tender, with a slight gratin-like effect, and the egg is white at the edges and just-runny-enough in the center and I think it might be my perfect meal. I would have it for breakfast, lunch, or dinner almost any day of the week (also in the rain, on a train, on a boat, with a shark…) and now that I’ve discovered that glorious late-season spinach still exists at markets around here, I might just make it happen.

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What happens when an intelligent, educated man takes high doses of psychedelics for fifteen straight years? Let’s start with “Two Human Species Exist: Their Hybrids Are Dyslexics, Homosexuals, Pedophiles, and Schizophrenics,” because then you’ll immediately understand why I was interested in Bruce Eldine Morton, Ph.D. This is clearly a nutcase book, and its premise, which is that left-brained and right-brained people are two separate human species, doesn’t even need to be specifically discredited. Research within the past few years has shown there is no “handedness” in brains, and that simple correlations of artistic or logical behavior with a particular side of the brain are not possible.

Dr. Bruce earned his Ph.D. in 1965, and completed his postdoctoral work at MIT and Harvard later in the 1960s. He worked professionally at several universities until his retirement in 1995. He clearly had his shit together, to some degree, to be able to do this. It wasn’t until I found his 2013 book “Psychedelic Visions From The Teacher” that I figured out how he came to the conclusion that homosexuals are from right-brained men having children with left-brained women: He tripped balls for 15 years straight. The description of the book describes how he “used psychedelic compounds to explore inner space” for fifteen years, which is also just about exactly the time period between when he retired and when he published this latest book.

It’s true that psychedelic experiences can give you a new perspective on life. But it’s also true that heavy use of serotonin receptor agonists, a class of drugs that encompasses nearly every known psychedelic compound, can permanently alter or diminish the brain’s cognitive ability. It’s not hard to imagine that fifteen years of constant use of illegal mental-powder has at least some chance of wrecking your ability to live in reality.

Or, as Dr. Bruce would put it, “Neuroreality: A Scientific Religion To Restore Meaning, Or How 7 Brain Elements Create 7 Minds And 7 Realities, Discoverer Of Triadism, Familial Polarity Galactic Big Bang Engines And The xDARP”, which also happens to be the title of his 2011 book.

When I finished cooking this recipe I took a look at my notepad to make sure I had written down all the ingredients. I looked it over a good three or four times thinking that I had surely forgotten something. The list was just too short. How did I just make so much yum with so few ingredients?!

That’s how food should be. Uncomplicated, fast, and super tasty. I couldn’t stop sneaking spoonfuls of this dish as I photographed it—it was just that flavorful. The simple tomato sauce is kicked up a few notches with curry powder (hot or mild, your choice) and would probably be good poured over just about any veggies. I like this combo of spinach and chickpeas because it’s filling, very nutritious, and just down right pretty.

I used fresh spinach because I bought a HUGE 2.5 lb. bag of fresh spinach the other day and now I’m committed to using it all (ha!), but you can sub frozen spinach to fit your budget. Just add 8 oz. of frozen spinach to the skillet in place of the fresh and sauté until thawed and warmed through, then proceed with the recipe as usual. I also used a very large can of chickpeas, but if that’s not available in your area, just use two regular 15-oz. sized cans. Not a fan of chickpeas? Lentils would also be great here!

I served my curried chickpeas with spinach over rice, but it would also be awesome with some naan to soak up the sauce instead. NOM.

Curried Chickpeas with Spinach

Step by Step Photos

Start by dicing one onion and mincing two cloves of garlic. I used a small cheese grater to grate one inch of fresh ginger (or you can mince it). I usually use a vegetable peeler to remove the skin from the ginger before grating it. Sauté the onion, garlic, and ginger in a large skillet with olive oil until they are soft (about 5 minutes).

Add 1.5 Tbsp of curry powder and continue to sauté the mixture. I used hot curry powder, but mild will also work well. 

Continuing to sauté after adding the spices will toast them just slightly and increase their flavor.

Next add a little water to the skillet (about 1/4 cup) and 8 oz. of fresh spinach. It will likely fill up the skillet, so stir carefully until it wilts down. Most fresh spinach is sold in either an 8 or 16 oz. bag, so use the label to help you estimate 8 oz. The water will help steam and wilt the spinach. If you’re using frozen spinach, you don’t need to add any water, just warm it through in the skillet.

Add a 15 oz. can of tomato sauce. If you don’t have tomato sauce in your area, strained tomatoes or tomato purée is a good substitute (although you may need to add a little salt at the end).

Add a large 29 oz. (or 1 lb. 13 oz.) can of chickpeas (drained and rinsed). If you can’t find one of these large cans, two 15 oz. cans will do the trick. 

Then just stir it all together well and let it warm through. How easy is that? I say “Pshhhhftfttfft.” to all boxed skillet meals.

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I’m all about the quick skillet meals because, let’s face it, sometimes after a long day of work you don’t really want to cook anything… but you still gotta eat. This super quick Creamy Pesto Pasta with Chicken and Broccoli combines the vibrant flavors of basil pesto with tangy cream cheese to make a deliciously rich sauce to smother the pasta, chicken, and broccoli. The pesto provides all the garlic and herbal flavor needed, so there’s no need to even dice an onion, mince garlic, or measure any herbs and spices—it’s already in the sauce! The whole dish cooks very quickly so you can have this one on the dinner table in about 30 minutes.

Originally posted 11-24-2013, updated 8-9-2020.

Can I Use a Different Pasta Shape?

Yep! Any short shaped pasta, like penne, rotini, or even macaroni will work fine for this recipe. You can use a longer type pasta, like fettuccine or linguine, but it’s a little harder to stir chunky ingredients, like the chicken and broccoli, into long pasta. Sometimes breaking it in half before cooking can help.

What Kind of Pesto Do You Use?

I used basil pesto from ALDI for this recipe because it’s super affordable. If you don’t have an ALDI store near you, Classico brand pesto and Barilla brand pesto also tend to be very affordable. 

Can I Substitute the Cream Cheese?

If you’re not into cream cheese, you can make a similar creamy sauce by substituting the cream cheese with about a ½ cup heavy cream, or replace both the chicken broth and cream cheese with 1 cup half and half. The sauce will be nice and creamy, but it won’t have that tangy cream cheese flavor that some people are not a fan of. You may need to add a pinch or two of salt at the end if you’re skipping the chicken broth.

Make it a Vegetarian Creamy Pesto Pasta

This Creamy Pesto Pasta can easily be made vegetarian. Just use a little extra broccoli, substitute vegetable broth for the chicken broth, and you’re good to go!

Creamy Pesto Pasta with Chicken and Broccoli

A super fast creamy pesto sauce drenches tender pasta, chicken breast, and broccoli for an easy weeknight dinner.

Total Cost $5.48 recipe / $1.37 serving

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Total Time 25 minutes

Servings 4

Calories 606.33kcal

Author Beth - Budget Bytes

Equipment

• Stainless Steel Pots and Pans
• Liquid Measuring Cup
• Color Cutting Boards
• Chef's Knife

Ingredients

• 8 oz. bow tie pasta $0.67
• 8 oz. frozen broccoli florets $1.00
• 1 Tbsp olive oil $0.12
• 1 lb. boneless, skinless chicken breast $2.49
• 1/3 cup basil pesto $0.73
• 1/2 cup chicken broth $0.07
• 4 oz. cream cheese $0.40

Instructions

• Bring a large pot of water to boil for the pasta. Once it reaches a full boil, add the pasta and continue to boil just until the pasta is tender, but still slightly firm in the center (7-8 minutes). Once the pasta is tender, add the frozen broccoli florets to the water with the pasta and continue to cook for 2-3 more minutes, or until the broccoli is tender. Drain the pasta and broccoli in a colander.
• While the pasta is cooking, cut the chicken breast into ½-inch pieces. Heat one tablespoon of olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Once hot, add the chicken and continue to cook until the outside of the chicken pieces are white, but they're still tender in the center (they will continue to cook as more ingredients are added).
• Add the chicken broth to the skillet with the chicken and allow it to heat through. Once hot, add the cream cheese (cut into small pieces) and pesto. Continue to stir and cook until the cream cheese has melted and created a smooth, creamy sauce with the pesto and chicken broth.
• Finally, add the cooked and drained pasta and broccoli to the skillet and stir to coat it in the cream sauce. If the sauce becomes too dry or thick, add another splash of chicken broth to loosen it up. Serve hot.

Nutrition

Serving: 1Serving | Calories: 606.33kcal | Carbohydrates: 53.58g | Protein: 37.18g | Fat: 28.33g | Sodium: 725.78mg | Fiber: 7.15g

How to Make Creamy Pesto Pasta with Chicken and Broccoli – Step by Step Photos

Bring a pot of water to a boil for the pasta. Once boiling, add 8oz. bowtie pasta and continue to boil for 7-8 minutes, or just until it’s tender with a little firmness in the center. Add ½ lb. frozen broccoli florets and continue to cook for 2-3 minutes more or just until the broccoli is tender. Drain the pasta and broccoli in a colander.

While the pasta and broccoli are cooking, cut one pound of boneless, skinless chicken breast into ½-inch chunks.

Add 1 Tbsp olive oil to a large skillet and heat over medium. Once hot, add the diced chicken and cook for about 2-3 minutes, or until the chicken is white on the outside, but still slightly tender inside (it will continue to cook as more ingredients are added). Add ½ cup chicken broth to the skillet and allow it to heat through.

Add 4oz. cream cheese (cut into small chunks) and ⅓ cup basil pesto to the skillet. 

Stir and cook over medium heat until the cream cheese has melted and created a smooth sauce with the pesto and broth. The cream cheese might look a little chunky as it’s melting, but keep stirring and cooking, it will smooth out once fully melted.

Finally, add the cooked and drained pasta and broccoli to the skillet and stir until it is all coated in the creamy pesto sauce. If the sauce becomes too dry or too thick, add another splash of chicken broth to loosen it up.

And that’s that! So easy! If you like ranch flavored foods, I think this tangy, garlicky sauce almost tastes ranch-like. So yum!

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Meet Peke, a 22-year-old student with a blond twin tails and glasses (bought in Shimokitazawa). You might recognize her from the Harajuku Fashion Walk events that she has participated in!

Pekeis wearing a Marche sweatshirt over a Panama Boy t-shirt, with 666 leggings and a Famiia jacket. Her houndstooth clutch is WC by Wakatsuki Chinatsu. She is also wearing a French fries hair clip from G2?, Kinji socks and a Forever21 scarf. Her American flag sneakers are Jeremy Scott.

Peke is a fan of Michael Jackson, and she likes the fashion of Jeremy Scott and Jenny Fax. For more information, visit her on Twitter.

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