{"116071":{"#nid":"116071","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Bogost on Bad Video Game Storytelling","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Video games tell stories badly,\u0022 says \u003Cstrong\u003EIan Bogost\u003C\/strong\u003E, Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture and Director of the Graduate Program in Digital Media, in an article about video games that have been made into blockbuster movies. Regarding the redeeming qualities of bad video game stories, Bogost continues, \u0022Maybe video games are meant to help us shed our obsession with storytelling, show us all the things between the story, like wandering around virtual space and exploring it like virtual tourists.\u0022 \u003Cem\u003ESource: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2012\/mar\/09\/grand-theft-auto-bang-bang-youre-dead?newsfeed=true\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EThe Guardian\u003C\/a\u003E - March 9, 2012\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27418","created_gmt":"2012-03-12 11:10:22","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:25:29","author":"Lauren Langley","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Christine Angelini","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2012\/mar\/09\/grand-theft-auto-bang-bang-youre-dead?newsfeed=true","dateline":{"date":"2012-03-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-03-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3663","name":"Ian Bogost"},{"id":"26831","name":"The Guardian"}],"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":""}}}