Monthly Archives: August 2005

gamesmuseum

Posted on by July 6, 2012
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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, like ↑Ethnography & Games.  The establishment of a museum is a natural outgrowth of academic research about games and game playing behaviors. Games reflect the cultures in which they are developed and played, and illustrate the cultural diffusion and interaction of people throughout human history. In addition to understanding the role and function of games in the field of Recreation … Continue reading →

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dreamscream

Posted on by July 12, 2012
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  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 material on and from the upcoming game plus the dreams and visions about it fuel the future Alan-Wake-modders’ creativity. The artistical appropriation of the till now mainly imagined Alan-Wake-universe manifests itself in artefacts—see the ↑Fan Art section at ↑AlanWAKE.Net. Two recent pieces strike me the most: ↑Uisor’s interpretation of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”, and ↑Awaken’s video [.avi | 29.1MB] “A … Continue reading →

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Posted on by October 5, 2012
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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 did a review of our cellared items and decided to throw nearly everything away. Shortly after noon it was done. A friend dropped by and took me along to ↑Heavens Gate, a phantastically relaxed indoor-climbing facility. When the first wave of exhaustion came we took a break, withdrew to the sofa-corner, and had a coffee. Right next to us I … Continue reading →

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more toilets

Posted on by October 1, 2012
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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 bowl out of a map by ↑[HP]—complete with high-tech toilet paper fluorescing greenish. Now that is style!    exclusive screenshot courtesy of [HP]—tnx man! … Continue reading →

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DGV05: new logic of conflict

Posted on by July 6, 2012
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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 is able to add a global dimension to local conflicts. This is exemplified by a case study on the Moluccan conflict, which took place from 1999 to 2002 in Eastern Indonesia—mainly between Christians and Muslims. It will be shown how local actors expanded the conflict into the Internet, and which strategies they put to use. During this conflict the Internet … Continue reading →

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rockstar coffee

Posted on by October 14, 2012
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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 the seat directly opposite to me. As she was quite striking I asked her if GTA:SA was retracted from the shelves in Germany now, too. “Oh no,” she said, “they just changed some scenes …” I answered that I knew that there was a ↑patch released, suppressing the ↑hot-coffee mod, which she quoted by: “Ah, is there?” From her posture … Continue reading →

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