F00 foo from ↑Acidmods ↑said: “Heres a little side project I’ve been working on. Playing doom.wad’s on my iPod with a NES controller,” and pointed us to the according ↑video at YouTube. This earned him a ↑story at hack a day—and he, who wrote it! ↑likes it, too. … Continue reading
At the blog ↑How They Got Game 2 ↑Henry E. Lowood reflects about the issues I pondered in ↵defrag wikipedia. Here’s an excerpt from his ↑Wikipedia, sources, machinima, which also goes well with ↵wikipedia on cyberanthropology and ↵embeddedness of subcybercultures: This blog post raises a number of interesting issues about historical research and web archaeology. The fundamental issue (at least in the paragraph cited) has to do with the Wikipedia’s unique position in covering the recent history of web technologies and new media, along with related popular culture. Even when one is nervous about citing Wikipedia, what do you do … Continue reading
Three years ago ↑Anja Rau wrote: “Look at your map of European Game Studies. Is there a white space south of Denmark? There needn’t be. Over the past two years, game studies initiatives have sprung up in Germany, too, and the rate of activities is accelerating.” (↵Rau 2004) Just last year ↑Klaus P. Jantke founded a group called ↑Digital Games Science at ‘Xing’ (formerly known as ‘OpenBC’)—now there is the start-up of an e-journal called ↑games science as well. My fear is that an overview of all the German academical endeavours concerning computergames will very soon be quite difficult to … Continue reading