The motto of the ↑9th Annual Independent Games Festival—which will take place 06-09 March 2007 in San Francisco, California—reads: “Rewarding innovation in independent games.” Quite naturally there is a mod competition as well. Forget the Oscars and hold your breath: … Continue reading →
Earlier this year I already ↵reported on “Payne & Redemption”, the other Max-Payne-themed “meatspace-movie” besides the short ↑Max Payne Hero. But meanwhile at ↑payneandredemption.com there is a wealth of material worthwhile to check out for everyone interested in movie-adaptations … 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 →
After ↑Max Payne Hero there now is another Max-Payne fan film in the making, called ↑Payne & Redemption. Fergle Gibson, writer and director of the upcoming movie said to ↑Deep Six: Payne & Redemption is Part III of a … Continue reading →
There’s a lot said and written on immersion into alternative or even virtual worlds, on people getting lost in gamespace or the Internet’s interactive realms, and so on. In consequence thoughts about the questions arising with these ‘other realities’ fly … Continue reading →
sex’n’crime anyone—or just crime? When I rode the tramway to work this morning at some stopover a girl entered the streetcar carrying two life-size cardboard figures depicting the cover-girl of ↑Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (GTA:SA). By chance she took … Continue reading →
↑Deutschlandradio aired a small ↑feature on cyberspace and computergames [.mp3 | 1.1MB | 4.42min | in German] which has Max Payne as a starting point for a short discussion of ↵FPS and violence. In the feature Matthias Mertens, post-doc at … Continue reading →
The field I am doing fieldwork in consists of three spaces (or kinds of spaces) at least. First there are the conceptual communication- and interaction spaces made possible by the Internet-infrastructure, respectively by the various Internet-services like www, e-mail, ↵IM, … Continue reading →
Maniac and Aavenr from the much respected Max-Payne-site ↑Deep Six met with Remedy’s Sam Lake (Lead Writer and the man who lent his face to the original Max Payne—although at first glance I thought it was Mickey Rourke, no offence … Continue reading →
Just some minutes ago I discovered that ↑Max Payne Headquarters (MPHQ), the once blooming, thriving, and buzzing core of my community has once again gone online—maybe since 12 May 2005. A new chapter in its changeful and sometimes fateful history. … Continue reading →