censorship’s bloody spell

  Although the matter meanwhile ↑has been settled for good—more or less—I nevertheless will recount a portion of it, as it delivers some insights into various issues, namely the computergames and violence debate and the perception of ↵machinima by insiders of the movement and by outsiders.  ↑“BloodSpell” is a feature-length machinima-movie by ↑Strange Company based on the computergame ↑“Neverwinter Nights”. It is released on the Internet piecemeal in the shape of five to seven minutes long episodes every two weeks or so. Until today all in all ↑seven episodes can be downloaded, the eigth being on the verge of release.  … Continue reading

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face off/on

appropriation’s commodification   ↑Boingboing reported that a ↑new application for the Xbox 360 by Digimask allows gamers to paste their own faces on game characters. ↑Gamersgame reported that the developers of an upcoming ↑beat ’em up, ↑“Battle of the Gods” (BOTG) launched an unique promotion event via eBay. If you win the according auction currently running your likeness will be included into the game as a background character.  Back in ye olde times when ↵MP1-modding was striving, and when we were still in the first stages of the infamous ↵Lightsaber modification, DopeTek, a founding member of our team, perfected his … Continue reading

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game over

  Using everyday household objects ↑PES has done a wonderful ↑stop motion movie recreating famous computergame classics like ↑Pac-Man, ↑Frogger, ↑Space Invaders et al. All actions are synchronized to the original game sounds. The movie is called ↑“Game Over” [1:35min | .mov | 7.89MB], and what I want for Christmas are playable recreations of the games featured in the movie, featuring the graphics from the movie. There’s still enough time till Christmas—gamemodders of the world, go ahead …      via entry at boingboing … Continue reading

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