Earlier this year I already ↵reported on “Payne & Redemption”, the other Max-Payne-themed “meatspace-movie” besides the short ↑Max Payne Hero. But meanwhile at ↑payneandredemption.com there is a wealth of material worthwhile to check out for everyone interested in movie-adaptations … Continue reading →
To my taste the most beautiful Christmas tree I ever saw, right in the centre of Munich at a quite romantic square. It is garnished with 8000 tiny cold-light LEDs by Osram. A sign beside it boasts that it is … Continue reading →
According to Sterling (1993) it was John Perry Barlow who first adopted Gibson’s concept for use of all kinds of perceived technological spaces. Barlow stated that cyberspace “is where you are when you’re talking on the telephone” (Rucker, Sirius, and … Continue reading →
If it wasn’t for my having an appointment here and now, there’d be little wonder in the downtown Manhattan spaghetti joint being perfectly deserted at that time of night. Way past the graveyard shift, uncanny twilight, floor covered by … Continue reading →
↑Material World is an interactive, online hub for contemporary debates, discussion, thinking and research centred on material and visual culture. It is the brainchild of scholars working in the anthropology departments of University College London and New York University, … Continue reading →
Heinz Fromm, since June 2000 head of the ↑Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz [“Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution,” Germany’s domestic intelligence agency] voiced some ↑notable statements during the last days, from which—quite inexplicably—it was deduced that Fromm is perfectly … Continue reading →
This indeed is an unusual specimen of fan-made artefact—the first one of its kind I ran across thus far. At myspace music there is the ↑Alan Wake 24-Hour Real-Time Online Radio Serial, seemingly brought to us straight from Silver … Continue reading →
ADM, whom I know already for quite some time—in fact as long as ye olde days of ↑Max-Payne modding glory—has made his promise true and, on 22 September 2006, fired a new ↑Alan-Wake fansite online: ↑brightfalls.com. The weblog focusses … Continue reading →
Now is the time to hop aboard: “↑Remedy Entertainment, the developer of the ↑Max Payne games and one of the leading independent game studios in the world, is ↑looking for Gameplay Designers to work on the upcoming next-generation title … Continue reading →
The wall went down last month. From now on in computer gaming, there were to be no real barriers between creator and audience, or producer and consumer. They would be collaborators in the same imaginative space, and working as equals, … Continue reading →