Last saturday I attended a good friend’s felicitous 30th birthday. Geek he is, he had set up some sideshow-amusement for us (the other geeks): A Commodore Amiga, running vintage games, ↑Giana Sisters (see pic, courtesy of ↑fab) being the top … Continue reading →
The following thoughts are based on a forum entry of mine at ↑PayneReactor (meanwhile the ↑original thread has migrated to ↑MaxPayneForums) dating back to 29 July 2004. The post was an answer to an article dated 28th July 2004 by … Continue reading →
The field I am doing fieldwork in consists of three spaces (or kinds of spaces) at least. First there are the conceptual communication- and interaction spaces made possible by the Internet-infrastructure, respectively by the various Internet-services like www, e-mail, ↵IM, … Continue reading →
The waiting has an end: ↑Mission:Impossible—New Dawn has gone gold and can be ↑downloaded.
Continue reading →One of the comps at my office is infected by a spambot—obviously this some time happened via IE, of course, and till now I haven’t found time to clean it up. Anyway from time to time windows pop up showing … Continue reading →
Last night a great reunion of the old MPHQ-gang members took place. I talked to GutBomb via IM and he meant: “dude | for old times sake | come to irc”. So I went to our old IRC-channell which in … Continue reading →
↑WakeReactor now is alive and already carries some content like the ↑hint to an ↑interview eurogamer did with Sam Lake and Petri Järvilehto. The latter says that “after seven years of Payne it’s quite refreshing to get started on something … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →