ECA Launches GameCulture.com, Intriguingly

Now here’s something interesting from the ECA - which is Hal Halpin’s non-profit aimed at banding gamers together to defend games as an art form, and also runs GamePolitics.com. I still don’t quite get where they’re going - but I like their chutzpah, abstractly:
“The Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA), the non-profit association which represents game enthusiasts, announced a new web-based publication launching in beta form today, GameCulture. The site will be a destination for gamers, mass media outlets and entertainment consumers of all sorts to visit and experience a unique editorial voice that will provide a sense of how videogames, game technology, and game culture are changing the world around us. GameCulture was designed and will be managed by veteran journalist Aaron Ruby, co-author of “Smartbomb,” a 2005 New York Times Editor’s Pick about game culture…
In describing the strategic positioning of the product, [ECA President Hal] Halpin explained that he […]

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