Category Archives: games
replacementdocs
I just spent quite some time at ↑Replacementdocs, clicking through 66 pages containing 1352 game-manuals for PC alone (all in .pdf format—many more for other platforms), and in the end downloaded 52. “replacementdocs.com pledges to bring you only high quality … Continue reading →
interview at the diner
Maniac and Aavenr from the much respected Max-Payne-site ↑Deep Six met with Remedy’s Sam Lake (Lead Writer and the man who lent his face to the original Max Payne—although at first glance I thought it was Mickey Rourke, no offence … Continue reading →
outtakes
One rung of the ladder to Jackie Chan’s fame are the famous outtakes at the end of his movies, mainly showing off stunts that went wrong. Jackie getting his head bashed by a pinball machine, Jackie breaking his ankle, and … Continue reading →
alan wake
a psychological action thriller As ↑E3 approached the usual straylight had again started to sift through the closed hatches of the nordic creator gods’ realm—and hit my modding community of course, too. Everything seems to have started on 19 … Continue reading →
deanimator
It is uncommon to fire all six shots of a revolver with great suddenness when one would probably be sufficient, but many things in the life of Herbert West were uncommon.↑Six Shots by Moonlightby H. P. Lovecraft, 1922 Sometimes you … Continue reading →
real virtual car
Taking a Virtual Car out into the Real world and having fun with it, or is it the other way around? “Just came back home, checked the blog and saw something strange—comments…↑[…]“—Somenight at 3AM the veteran geeks over at ↑The … Continue reading →
threedimensional teleporter-malfunction
by ↑KerLeone—translated by zeph The suitcase did not pass through the teleporter. I am speaking of ↑Half-Life 2. I just wanted to take along the suitcase from the railway station. But then I am standing in the room with the … Continue reading →
atari archives
Well, back in the 1980s I was in the other camp, because I was a proud owner of a C64—and we somehow looked down on those having an Atari. But that is history, and exactly from that point of view … Continue reading →
cyber sabre
Quite a time ago, while drinking beer at a party organised by our students, I told a fellow anthropologist about game-items from Everquest being sold at ebay (see e.g. Castronova ↵2001 and ↵2003). All I harvested was an amused smile … Continue reading →