Coincidence again—just last Monday, while composing ↵demo and ↵snaking and strafe-jumping, I found ↑“Diary of a Camper”, not this blog’s subtitle, but allegedly the very first instance of ↵machinima. Today I found ↑Machinima: Finding Its Way, representing “not only … Continue reading →
Still I am deep down into the consumption of cyberpunk—literature and movies. Yesterday I rewatched Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil” and this afternoon “Immortal” by Enki Bilal. At 8 P.M. I watched the news and afterwards zapped through the channels a bit. … Continue reading →
In gamedesign and -modding it is a cherished practice to integrate references to other popular- and/or cyberculture items. Especially hidden references, so-called easter-eggs, have developed their very own dynamic. But not only gamers “creatively re-fashion the resources of popular culture … Continue reading →
After ↵collecting toilets and ↵more toilets, now it’s the other way round—not toilets in computergames, but computergames in toilets. Designer ↑Marcel Neundörfer has developed urinals with integrated gameplay: “Recessed into a urinal is a pressure-sensitive display screen. When the … Continue reading →
Another addition to a seemingly never-ending story—is this the last hope? Read ↑Blade Runner Final Cut Coming in 2007! at ↑cyberpunkreview.com. Thanks for the opportunity to post yet another Blade-Runner screenshot ;-)
Continue reading →The ↑Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth has brought the ↑ASA Ethics blog online. via entry at savage minds
Continue reading →Some good soul has compiled a selected ↑bibliography of computer-mediated communication [.pdf | 22KB].
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