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A Study of Video Games

A new lecture series at BYU is diving into the design, storytelling, and connectedness of video games. “What I have finally learned to embrace is how video games are just as complicated, just as immersive, and just as beautiful as poetry, paintings, the Parthenon, or people.”

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