Quite some things have changed concerning the structure of the online territory the Alan Wake community inhabits. AlanWAKE.net, home of the official Alan Wake forums, vanished in February, the URI was set to redirect to ↑http://www.alanwake.com/forum. The workload and …Continue reading →
Some years ago during lunch, sitting at a table besides me, two n00b-computer-scientists, young lads who just had started their first term of studies, had a conversation about the World Wide Web (WWW). Consensus between them was that HTML …Continue reading →
Just as my ↵list of literary fiction I am currently reading or rererading [and have recently read or reread], this list of computer games I am playing, replaying, and have played is more or less just for myself in order …Continue reading →
Just three hours after my musing on AlanWAKEnet becoming the official fansite and the developers’ attitude towards the fanhood, ↑MikaRMD announced AlanWAKEnet to be the game’s official fansite: It also gives me a great pleasure that we can announce ↑www.alanwake.net …Continue reading →
My job here at the university forces me to teach at least two courses every term. Here’s what I am going to publicly babble about during the upcoming summer-term (24 April to 29 July 2006): computergames With contemporary sociocultural anthropology’s …Continue reading →
1980s 1984 HOT B. 1984. Psychic city [computer game]. Tokyo: Hot B. 1985 STODART, ANDY AND IAN FOSTER. 1985. Blade runner [computer game]. London: CRL Group. 1986 ASCII CORPORATION. 1986. The screamer [computer game]. Tokyo: ASCII Corporation. 1987 HOT B. …Continue reading →
My colleague ↑Birgit Bräuchler, author of ↵Cyberidentities at War, courteously invited me to send in a proposal for a workshop called ↑Understanding media practices, which she will organize together with John Postill at the ↑9th EASA Biennial Conference which …Continue reading →
This was intended to become a longer rant from me—after the installation of ‘↑Batman: Arkham City‘ (Rocksteady Studios 2011) crashed my brand new system so badly that I had to jump back several recovery points to get it up and …Continue reading →