first season pwned
Somehow I missed to report on that … ↑Episode 11—I <3 u in rl of ↑Pure Pwnage has been released on 21 June 2006. Season one of the über-cult series will be completed with the public ↑screening of Episode 12 … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: gaming
digital arabs
↑ŠISLER, VÍT. 2006. “↑Representation and self-representation: Arabs and Muslims in digital games,” in Gaming realities: A challenge for digital culture edited by M. Santorineos and N. Dimitriadi, pp. 85-92. Athens: Fournos. Available online [.pdf | 480KB]: http://uisk.jinonice.cuni.cz/sisler/publications/SISLER_Representation_of_Muslims.pdf abstract: This … Continue reading →
spacewar
GRAETZ, J. MARTIN. 1981. ↑The origin of Spacewar. ↑Creative Computing 7(8): 56-67, ↑reprinted 1983 in ↑Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games ↑1(1): 78-??. The picture at the top is a snippet of an illustration that accompanied the 1983 … Continue reading →
finally …
… it seems that I have succeeded in cramping the necessary feedback-loops into my inner cybernetic system responsible for controlling my motor functions. Now I can perform a circle jump and come out of it with 500+ units per … Continue reading →
the making of machinima
↑LOWOOD, HENRY E. 2006. “High-performance play: The making of machinima.” To appear in: Videogames and Art: Intersections and Interactions, Andy Clarke and Grethe Mitchell (eds.), Intellect Books (UK), 2006. Also to appear in: Journal of Media Practice: Videogames and Art … Continue reading →
collaborative game research
A new project promising new insights into the history and development of computergames, as it focusses on the perspective of innovations: The goal of the GIDb [↑Game Innovation Database] is to classify and record every innovation in the entire history … Continue reading →
teh best day ever
On 16 March 2006 episode 10 of ↑Pure Pwnage, called ↑teh best day ever [.avi | 203.7MB] has been released on the Internet—’nough said.
Continue reading →digital intifada, arabs, and aliens
Just ↵as promised, my pal ↑Vít Šisler—lawyer, arabist, and anthropologist-in-disguise—now has done it and brought his fresh, new, and tremendously interesting articles online: ↑Digital Intifada (↵Šisler 2006b) “examines political videogames produced by the Syrian company Afkar Media in Damascus, … Continue reading →
dossier computerspiele
The “Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung” has a quite interesting ↑Dossier Computerspiele [in German] online. via e-mail from just.be—tnx!
Continue reading →game modding, intermediality and participatory culture
Hell, am I backward! And—concerning everything connected to ICTs—Scandinavia has its nose way up front, as usual. ↑2R just hinted me via e-mail—tnx a lot, man—to a paper by Olli Sotamaa: ↑SOTAMAA, OLLI. 2003. ↑Computer game modding, intermediality and participatory … Continue reading →