Now is the time to hop aboard: “↑Remedy Entertainment, the developer of the ↑Max Payne games and one of the leading independent game studios in the world, is ↑looking for Gameplay Designers to work on the upcoming next-generation title … 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 →
It seems that the time of harvesting the fruits of my efforts finally has arrived. Today again an invitation to write an article for an anthology came in—I didn’t even send a proposal … God, am I satisfied and … Continue reading →
The aficionados of course ↑can not accept cyberpunk to be a “long-since dead relic of the 80s,” but “consider it to be alive and well.” Not surprisingly I completely second that. Although ↑Bruce Sterling himself ↑sees it to belong … Continue reading →
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 →
↑MORRIS, SUE. 2004. ↑Co-creative media: Online multiplayer computer game culture. ↑Scan: Journal of media arts culture ↑1(1). abstract: As a new and emerging research area, computer games demand the development of new theoretical frameworks for research and analysis. In addition … Continue reading →
AU, WAGNER JAMES. 2002. ↑Triumph of the mod: Player-created additions to computer games aren’t a hobby anymore—they’re the lifeblood of the industry. ↑Salon.com. 16 April 2002.
Continue reading →gamemodding as post-industrial unwaged work ↑POSTIGO, HECTOR R. 2003. ↑From Pong to Planet Quake: Post-industrial transitions from leisure to work [.pdf | 88KB]. ↑Information, Communication & Society ↑6(4):593–607. abstract: In the closing weeks of 2002, video games were featured in … Continue reading →