I already mused about ↵Wikipedia as emic knowledge—now I have to contribute a tidbit myself: In ↑Pure Pwnage‘s ↑Episode 8 “Lanageddon” I just discovered an ↑easter egg which is not yet listed in the ↑easter-egg section of ↑Wikipedia’s entry Pure … Continue reading →
After ↑Max Payne Hero there now is another Max-Payne fan film in the making, called ↑Payne & Redemption. Fergle Gibson, writer and director of the upcoming movie said to ↑Deep Six: Payne & Redemption is Part III of a … Continue reading →
↑GURSTELLE, WILLIAM. 2006. ↑Adventures from the technology underground: Catapults, pulsejets, rail guns, flamethrowers, Tesla coils, air cannons, and the garage warriors who love them . New York: ↑Clarkson Potter. The technology underground is a thriving, humming, and often literally … Continue reading →
↑ERIKSEN, THOMAS HYLLAND. 2006. ↑Engaging anthropology: The case for a public presence. Oxford: ↑Berg. Anthropology ought to have changed the world. What went wrong? Engaging Anthropology takes an unflinching look at why the discipline has not gained the popularity and … Continue reading →
↑Jesper Juul, ↑the ludologist, has published his book ↑half-real—here’s the ↑about: A video game is half-real: we play by real rules while imagining a fictional world. We win or lose the game in the real world but we slay … Continue reading →
The New York Times’ David Barboza has written an article on chinese gold farms, called ↑Boring Game? Hire a player which is available online via the International Herald Tribune: FUZHOU, China One of China’s newest factories operates here in the … Continue reading →
After having given an impression of a decidedly ↑etic perspective on professional gaming (↵world’s greatests), here are instances of the ↑emic perspective of pro-gamers onto themselves and their culture. The ↑pure pwnage ↑series of auto-ethnographical/biographical movies allows unique insights into … Continue reading →
Graphical visualization of data is definitely ↵something I am fond of. For aesthetical reasons, but for pragmatic ones, too—sometimes. Anyway, ↑visualcomplexity is a great resource: VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization … Continue reading →
↑the Onion ↑carries a story on recent—very recent—development inside the gaming industry \o/ NEW YORK—Electronic-entertainment giant Take-Two Interactive, parent company of Grand Theft Auto series creator Rockstar Games, released Stacker Tuesday, a first-person vertical-crate-arranger guaranteed not to influence young people’s … Continue reading →