It’s time to clarify the ambiguous term “demo” as used within gaming culture. For that purpose I’ll quote from some ’emic sources’. 1. Let’s start with the obvious, Wikipedia’s entry ↑Game demo: A game demo is a freely distributed demonstration … 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 →
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 →
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 →
In the wake of the ↑Machinima Festival just being over, ↑Publish.com‘s Stephen Bryant has done a short ↑interview with Keygrip-creator David Wright: Back in 1996, when Quake was the finest first-person-shooter around, a Stanford freshman named David Wright created a … Continue reading →
The location of the ↑Fighternight VII is somewhat strange—well, it’s ok, but it definitely hasn’t the ambience ↵Wolfenstein had. The tables have a crude wooden top, so you have to use a mousepad. That’s not the problem, but the hall … Continue reading →
↑Orange already had ↑pointed us to ↑spezial#1 (see ↵senseless), now she has ↑duly blogged the release of ↑spezial#2—both being South-Park-style satirical flash-movies by Christian Wasser of ↑sinn-los.de [senseless] taking up the computergames & violence issue. [both movies in German] The … Continue reading →
“The source code to Quake III Arena is ↑now online under the GNU General Public License—free to be hacked, spindled, bent, folded and mutilated. Let the meta-fragging begin!” via entry at boingboing
Continue reading →Since already several years the casemod-movement [that is the hardware-modification scene] has powerfully whiplashed back into the hardware-manufacturing industry. The feedback out of the rows of the ‘end-users’ stemming from their creativity in the appropriation of computer hardware gave birth … Continue reading →