At ↑Remedy‘s official ↑Alan Wake website a ↑read the buzz section has been added, being a link-collection to press-comments on the presentation of ↵Alan Wake at ↑E3. Furthermore a link to the ↑AlanWAKE.Net Forums has been prominently placed—the developer-company has … 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 →
Tricksterish hoaxing definitely is an integral part of online-culture. At c0x2.de an unidentified individual posing as an electrical engineer and US-citizen ↑reports that he found a keylogging-device similar to the ↑KeyGhost brand inside his Dell-laptop—inserted right between keyboard and ethernet … Continue reading →
There is a new sport coming from France which perfectly illustrates what I meant by playful ↵appropriation by mastership. It’s called ↑le Parkour. From the ↑tutorial we learn: It’s a melting pot of gymnastic, rock climbing, trekking, martial arts for … Continue reading →
Long before I encountered gamemodding I already had fallen in love with desktopmodding. The better part of which can more accordingly be called -tweaking, as most of this discipline’s alterations do not dig too deep. Instead they scratch the … Continue reading →
a cyberanthropologist’s reflections on e-sports At a tremendous pace computergames and gaming-culture get more and more attention and coverage by ‘traditional’ electronic and print mass media. More and more institutions of said media take computergames to be a serious and … Continue reading →
Yesterday the students of ‘my’ institute, the ↑Institute for Sociocultural Anthropology at the ↑Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München launched a weblog called ↑protest. The blog is meant to be a platform for the organisation of measures against the current state of teaching at … Continue reading →
It happened at the Fighternight #5. At some indefinite moment during nighttime I took my headphones off, leaned back in my chair, and allowed my gaze to wander around aimlessly. Suddenly my eyes locked on the screen of a … Continue reading →
Anthropology is very much concerned with the representation not only of its findings, but with what it looks upon: cultures. The whole Writing-Culture debate and everything in its wake revolves around this. It triggered new experimental means of mediating … Continue reading →
It was the first fair I went to alone. The side shows attracted me a lot, all the gambling booths not so much. Except one. It featured those moving stairs littered with coins. The player’s task was to insert … Continue reading →