Ian McShane

Sep 24, 2024 | fark.com | Ian McShane

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Sep 12, 2024 | insidestory.org.au | Ian McShane

The value of imaginative, non-directed play in building young people’s capabilities and sense of their place in the world is an enduring theme in educational and social thought. But the conditions under which it thrives are easily overlooked. Play, as the Dutch cultural historian Johan Huizinga argued in his landmark 1938 book Homo Ludens, is a fundamental to the human condition.

Jun 25, 2024 | insidestory.org.au | Ian McShane

As Cassandra Pybus was nearing completion of her much-praised biography Truganini: Journey through the Apocalypse, she made a surprise discovery. In the personal papers of a prominent Tasmanian historian was a transcribed letter from the early 1860s in which a colonial lawyer and member of the newly formed Royal Society of Tasmania claimed to possess a complete skeleton of one of Truganini’s companions. “Once I had recovered from the shock,” she writes, “I made a hasty addition to my book.

Mar 19, 2024 | gamespot.com | Evan Campbell |Ian McShane

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. One might wonder if Valve's favorite song is Higher by Creed, because Steam continues to see concurrent users go up this year. VGC reports that the PC storefront saw over 36.3 million players at the same time this past Sunday, per SteamDB.

Mar 18, 2024 | blix.gg | Ian McShane

Dragon's Dogma II is an upcoming action RPG from Capcom played from a third-person perspective, a sequel to the original Dragon's Dogma. The game is due for release for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S in March 2024 — a sequel to Dragon's Dogma (2012).