Not too long ago, when ↑KerLeone—who introduced me to “↑Quake III Arena“ (Q3A), but meanwhile shamefully has defected to “↑Battlefield 2“, the traitor—asked me what people actually are playing nowadays when they are out for the deathmatch experience, I … Continue reading →
Computergames can be spectacular, ↑first-person shooters (FPS) in particular. ↑Electronic sports (e-sports) almost always are spectacular. Marketing in turn definitely has to be spectacular. Marketing a computergame for e-sports for sure will be a spectacle. From the beginning on … Continue reading →
Detail from the original cover of ↑Chris Crawford‘s 1987 game “↑Patton vs. Rommel“ As I said, all in all the public discussion on computergames is led way more differentiated in the aftermath of the amok run at Emsdetten, than … 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 →
computergame violence as a result of economical competition Media coverage on the amok run in Emsdetten on 20 November 2006 already dwindles away, but the discussion on computergames is going on—and I direly hope that it will go on for … Continue reading →
wikipedia as a field medium—the case of the DeFRaG mod Still I am preoccupied with writing my article on “The playful appropriation of gamespace—From skilful playing to gamemodding and back again,” or so. A bit late, you may say, as … Continue reading →
Just another ‘little’ rant on economized politics reigning academia—skip it if you can’t stand it anymore. Last night I woke up around one o’clock in the morning and couldn’t find sleep again. So, in trying to catch up with … Continue reading →
Just as he had promised during ↑QuakeExpo, celebrating the tenth anniversary of ↑Quake, ↑John Romero ↑released the map sources on 11 October 2006. Immediately not only ↑comments rained in, but the community sprang to action as well. For example … Continue reading →
A family tree of ↑Quake-based game engines. By Tei, ↑published at Wikipedia. ↑Licence. This is just to illustrate the enormous influence and impact of ↑John Carmack‘s game-engines on the whole lot of computergames as we know them today. The … Continue reading →