Gamers, not to be confused with the awfully-awesome GamerZ, is a documentary by Ben Gonyo following his two year journey through everything MMO. In the wake of his film’s DVD release, he has re-launched the film’s website www.gamersfilm.com as a host for gaming documentaries.
According to a press release received this afternoon, “[t]he site hosts dozens of good gaming documentary films pulled from around the Internet. Everything from feature documentary films o shorts to nostalgic videogame commercials.â€Â The site has no costs to join, but DVDs of Gamers are available for $10 to help keep the site running.
Video game documentaries are a small minority, largely because of the social stigma that still, inexplicably, hovers over the gamer like a cloud of smelly, awkward, living-with-parents-until-40 sadness. Worse still, there is the danger of films like
Get Lamp
that can paint the gamer as a socially maladjusted reject, if unintentionally so. As such, it’s great to see an endeavor like this that can show a little bit more of what a “real” gamer looks like.
Gamers, not to be confused with the awfully-awesome GamerZ, is a documentary by Ben Gonyo following his two year journey through everything MMO. In the wake of his film’s DVD release, he has re-launched the film’s website www.gamersfilm.com as a host for gaming documentaries.
According to a press release received this afternoon, “[t]he site hosts dozens of good gaming documentary films pulled from around the Internet. Everything from feature documentary films o shorts to nostalgic videogame commercials.” The site has no costs to join, but DVDs of Gamers are available for $10 to help keep the site running.
Video game documentaries are a small minority, largely because of the social stigma that still, inexplicably, hovers over the gamer like a cloud of smelly, awkward, living-with-parents-until-40 sadness. Worse still, there is the danger of films like Get Lamp that can paint the gamer as a socially maladjusted reject, if unintentionally so. As such, it's great to see an endeavor like this that can show a little bit more of what a "real" gamer looks like.
