{"544251":{"#nid":"544251","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Video Games Keep Getting Tougher and That\u0027s OK","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u201c\u003C\/em\u003EVideo Games Keep Getting Tougher and That\u2019s Ok\u003Cem\u003E\u201d\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;quotes School of Literature, Media, and Communication professor, Ian Bogost, Ph.D.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFrom the \u003Cem\u003EMotherboard\u003C\/em\u003E article:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDark Souls\u003C\/em\u003E has become one of this decade\u2019s most popular titles. The latest game, \u003Cem\u003EDark Souls III\u003C\/em\u003E, is the fastest selling game in developer Bandai Namco\u2019s history. What\u2019s most interesting about this is that the \u003Cem\u003EDark Souls\u003C\/em\u003E franchise is known for some of the toughest games out on modern consoles, throwing you into a world of unrelenting boss fights and unflinching difficulty. In other words, the game not only doesn\u2019t hold your hand, it takes that hand and pushes you into a world you don\u2019t know and expects you to succeed, quick.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf you go back centuries (or even millennia), you get folk games like Go and Chess, which are both difficult to learn and very hard to play well, requiring substantial investments of time\u201d [Bogost] told Motherboard.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERead the full article on \u003Cem\u003EMotherboard\u003C\/em\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_uk\/read\/hard-video-games-become-popular\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"32716","created_gmt":"2016-06-13 15:50:09","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:28:14","author":"Hayden Russell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"kent linthicum","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_uk\/read\/hard-video-games-become-popular","dateline":{"date":"2016-06-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-06-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"169195","name":"Dark Souls"},{"id":"3663","name":"Ian Bogost"},{"id":"2449","name":"video games"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}