CSULB Center for the History of Video Games and Critical Play

Welcome to the Youtube channel for the Center for the History of Video Games, Technology and Critical Play. We are entering our fifth year of development as we continue our mission to act as a collaborative, interdisciplinary space where researchers, students and the university community at CSULB can engage in the critical study and teaching of video games and their impact on culture. Games occupy an essential place in the contemporary media ecology and in our students’ lives, and should be regarded as important objects of critical and historical analysis.This channel is but one branch of our Center's outreach and research. The Center also fosters the study games through its pedagogical approaches history (see criticalplay.org) and through a variety of research projects, talks and presentations. Through this channel and our other endeavors, we hope to develop productive interactions between scholarly disciplines, students from a variety of majors, gamers, and the general public.