The website of the ↑Elliott Avedon Museum and Archive of Games at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, meanwhile exists since 12 years and consists out of 700+ pages. It offers a ‘virtual visit’ to the museum and much more, … Continue reading →
The game ↑Alan Wake still is far away from going gold—therefore it quite naturally can not be modified yet. Nevertheless the community already has come into existence and its members don’t idle the day away. The until now released … Continue reading →
The last weekend was dedicated to dealing with rubbish. The flood in Munich—have a look at the ↑photos by 2R—had powerfully hit our basement, too. But till Friday the hip-high waters had been pumped off. So, on Saturday morning I … Continue reading →
The ↵collecting-gamespace-toilets bug seems to spread. ↑Gamersgame ↑reports that fresh99 now carries an ↑according collection, too. Of course the mod-scene in general, and my tribe in particular can not stand back. Here’s an exclusive screen shot of a ↑Rogue-Ops toilet … Continue reading →
Local conflicts go online by ↑Birgit Bräuchler In contrast to conventional (mass)media the so called ‘new media’—among them the most prominent Internet—stand out due to criteria like interaction, multimediality, transcending location, and networking. Because of the named criteria the Internet … Continue reading →
Now one can study game design in Germany: ↑Computervisualistik. Very interesting is the ↑bibliography acompanying the lecture ‘computergames’. Deutschlandfunk has an ↑Interview on Computervisualistik—↑published at Spiegel Online, too. [Everything in German.] via entry at 2R
Continue reading →“The ↑Center for Internet Research and Media Integration (CIM) has been founded on July, 29 2005 at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. The objective is to support interdisciplinary research projects in the communication industries and their transformation through digital … Continue reading →
“The source code to Quake III Arena is ↑now online under the GNU General Public License—free to be hacked, spindled, bent, folded and mutilated. Let the meta-fragging begin!” via entry at boingboing
Continue reading →sex’n’crime anyone—or just crime? When I rode the tramway to work this morning at some stopover a girl entered the streetcar carrying two life-size cardboard figures depicting the cover-girl of ↑Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (GTA:SA). By chance she took … Continue reading →