Scoring Points and Making Friends

Today is the day BennyDNGR reaches 10,000 points, the first person in DNGRBeats to do so. It’s his turn up on the DJ decks, and people are starting to buzz about getting him to the 10k this round. “Benny, let’s do it,” says Smash City. Benny starts playing Johnny Cash’s “The Man Comes Around.” It’s an unusual choice for this crowd, who are used to listening to ambient electronica or aggressive drum and bass, but Cash is a classic. “10k or not, this deserves an awesome,” chimes Hypo-Luxa. Halfway through the song, he breaks the 10,000 mark, and the crowd goes wild.

Introducing

We are proud to present the inaugural issue of The New York Review of Video Games, an online magazine dedicated to thinking seriously about electronic play, written and produced by a New York University-based community of faculty and student game scholars.

Despite our affiliation, we’re not an academic journal. Rather, we believe that with the ascent of video games to the fore of popular culture, there’s room for a thoughtful, argumentative, and irreverent publication devoted to parsing all corners of this expanding field, from considering particular games to thinking about the medium’s social, political, and economic implications.