Video Game Controller

Playing to Fail

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 22, 2013

Jesper Juul, visiting assistant professor at New York University Game Center, blogger, and author of The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games (The MIT Press, 2013), argues that the value of video games isn't in winning, but in learning how to lose. 

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