Monthly Archives: May 2005

replacementdocs

Posted on by October 1, 2012
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I just spent quite some time at ↑Replacementdocs, clicking through 66 pages containing 1352 game-manuals for PC alone (all in .pdf format—many more for other platforms), and in the end downloaded 52. “replacementdocs.com pledges to bring you only high quality scanned images of instruction manuals in their full, original format with all original artwork and other graphical elements intact. There will be no text-only documentation unless that is how it was originally released. There will also be no conversion to monochrome images or any other severe quality degradation.” Another worthwhile resource for computergame historians is ↑The Doom Bible, being the … Continue reading →

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interview at the diner

Posted on by October 14, 2012
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 Maniac and Aavenr from the much respected Max-Payne-site ↑Deep Six met with Remedy’s Sam Lake (Lead Writer and the man who lent his face to the original Max Payne—although at first glance I thought it was Mickey Rourke, no offence ;-) and Petri Järvilehto (Lead Game Designer) at a Diner like seen above (I mean an online one) and conducted an enlightening ↑interview [via ↑AlanWAKE.Net] on Alan Wake. Now we know about the story from first hand: SL: Alan Wake is a successful horror writer. For the material of his first novel, he used the strange dreams that he had … Continue reading →

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official welcome

Posted on by October 14, 2012
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Just three hours after my musing on AlanWAKEnet becoming the official fansite and the developers’ attitude towards the fanhood, ↑MikaRMD announced AlanWAKEnet to be the game’s official fansite: It also gives me a great pleasure that we can announce ↑www.alanwake.net as official fan site. The site is still owned and run by our long time fan, ADoomedMarine. By calling it an official fan site, I hope that we (our guys at Remedy) can make alanwake.net forums our interactive “home” on the internet. The official home pages at ↑www.alanwake.com will, of course, be the place to get the latest official news … Continue reading →

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road to wake

Posted on by October 14, 2012
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 At ↑Remedy‘s official ↑Alan Wake website a ↑read the buzz section has been added, being a link-collection to press-comments on the presentation of ↵Alan Wake at ↑E3. Furthermore a link to the ↑AlanWAKE.Net Forums has been prominently placed—the developer-company has linked itself officially to the emerging community. At the latter forums there now are world exclusive ↑screencaps of the E3 tech demo to be seen. Naturally they are quite blurry, but are giving a little more impression of Pride Falls’ universe. Call it marketing-strategy or what you like—I sense it to be something more, an integral part of the online-culture … Continue reading →

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outtakes

Posted on by October 1, 2012
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One rung of the ladder to Jackie Chan’s fame are the famous outtakes at the end of his movies, mainly showing off stunts that went wrong. Jackie getting his head bashed by a pinball machine, Jackie breaking his ankle, and so on. In Pixar’s ↵cg-movie “A Bug’s life” there are outtakes at the end, which play to the fantasy of the animated characters being actors who are subjects to the profession’s pitfalls, too. ↑The Ludologist, Mr. Jesper Juul himself, recently saw those fake outtakes and wondered how fake outtakes of a computergame would be like. As a result he brings … Continue reading →

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sidebar

Posted on by October 5, 2012
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Finally I updated and rearranged the sidebar a bit. The blogroll now has its subsections ordered from most close to my project and specialized to farer away and more general (from the top down). The entries in the subsections now are in alphabetical order, and the section ‘anthropology’ is newly added—with the recent explosion of the anthropological blogosphere this became necessary. Below the blogroll my siteroll has appeared, which carries the visible, the public-access-parts of my community’s space. This is where I roam around a lot. When ↑biXen saw my blog for the first time he meant that the content … Continue reading →

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mphq again

Posted on by October 14, 2012
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Just some minutes ago I discovered that ↑Max Payne Headquarters (MPHQ), the once blooming, thriving, and buzzing core of my community has once again gone online—maybe since 12 May 2005. A new chapter in its changeful and sometimes fateful history. Which gives me the chance for a little roundup of the community sites. The most reliable and sustainable sites—apart from the official ↑3DR-forums—of the MP-community have been the German ones: ↑Max Payne Area and ↑Max Payne Zone. And those still are quite active, but ↑Max Payne Source, once the hopeful substitute for then vanished MPHQ, idles. ↑Payne Reactor at the … Continue reading →

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savage minds

Posted on by July 6, 2012
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There is a new anthropological group-weblog. The ↑savage minds behind the accordingly named endeavor are ↑Alex Golub, ↑Antti Leppänen, ↑Chris Kelty, ↑Kerim Friedman, ↑Nancy Leclerc, and ↑Dustin M. Wax. ↑anthropologi.info kindly ↑commented: “Great! A new anthropology group blog! Something like an American version of the German ↑Ethno::log.” This comment is kind in respect to the ethno::log, as with the latter we never had the impact savage minds already has after just some days—and I dare say we never had this kind of quality. Not that the entries at ethno::log lack quality, but they possess a different kind of it. Savage … Continue reading →

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