Category Archives: games
beyond the game
‘↑Beyond the Game‘ is the motto of the World Cyber Games and also the intended title of the documentary film by filmmaker Jos de Putter. The film is set in the world of incredibly popular cyber games and portrays several … Continue reading →
second skin
PIÑEIRO-ESCORIAZA, JUAN CARLOS. 2008. ↑Second skin [documentary film]. El Segundo: Pure West Films, Gravitas Ventures.
Continue reading →computer game documentaries
Last November the ↑pixelprospector—indie games … and essential resources for game developers—has added ↑the big list of video game documentaries to its ↑list of big lists … well sorted hours upon hours of precious information and insight.
Continue reading →playing with videogames
[abstract:] Playing with Videogames documents the richly productive, playful and social cultures of videogaming that support, surround and sustain this most important of digital media forms and yet which remain largely invisible within existing studies. James Newman details the rich … Continue reading →
anteworld
entering arkham city
After a careful clean reinstall finally I am able to immerse into the ↑Batman‘s mythic universe. A bunch of goons inside a slightly decaying 19th century room. By the masks they wear you can tell that they are ↑Two-Face‘s henchmen. … Continue reading →
arkham city rant
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 →
kara
mari0 gone gold
Back ↵in October I hailed it, now it’s out—go and grab the ingenious ↓Mari0! It’s been released five days ago, today we’re already at 1.4 :)
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