Once upon a time there were collections of pictures online, showing gamers in front of their screens, making impossible grimaces, and caught in quite astounding involuntary movement—results of their being deeply immersed in computergame action. Then have a look at … Continue reading →
The wall went down last month. From now on in computer gaming, there were to be no real barriers between creator and audience, or producer and consumer. They would be collaborators in the same imaginative space, and working as equals, … Continue reading →
Some day in the first half of April 2002 I ↵stumbled over gamemodding and slowly realized that there was more than something in it, legitimizing an anthropological look. Before that I was aware of player-created game-content, as I had played … Continue reading →
Technological politics and the networked PC However, the best illustration of the kind of positive cultural politics envisaged here concerns the culture of game modification. Games players write and exchange ‘mods’—modifications to games programs that include new twists of storyline … Continue reading →
Original, authentic, copy: Conceptual issues in digital texts For textual studies, digital texts present special problems and magnify others. Three examples will suffice. The first is a result of their ease of reproduction, alteration, corruption, and transmission, much greater than … Continue reading →
It seems that I am attracted to ↵things “Razer”, however spelled, just ↑like John Romero is … ;-) As some may remember, I am the owner of “that girlish piece of hardware” [tnx 2R] called the Motorola Razr—which at some … Continue reading →
There’s a new journal in the ‘hood, it’s called ↑Games and Culture: A journal of interactive media. The ↑complete inaugural issue is online, full-text accessible for free.
Continue reading →What I finished reading last night is by far the best book on computergames I had my hands on so far. To be precise, it is the best book on those aspects of computergames I am interested in the … Continue reading →
What I finished reading last night is by far the best book on computergames I had my hands on so far. To be precise, it is the best book on those aspects of computergames I am interested in the most: … Continue reading →