Video games: news, theory & analysis.
Video games: news, theory & analysis.
This weekend I'm German. I accepted an invitation from the Center for Metropolitan Studies and am spending four days in Berlin. On Friday I presented my paper "Cities, Games & Media," which'll be available online shortly.
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After successfully transferring my entire digital existence to the helpful people at DreamHost, I've finally gotten around to logging back in. Lots of interesting activity has kept me away, but I'm better for it. Next stop, Berlin. — read on
I'm up at MIT this weekend, meeting people, being friendly, conferencing. One thing that I'm noticing is an eery symbiosis between older professors and hipsters. The former provides credibility and the momentum to actually have a conference. The latter provides the endless library of Internet clips, snippets, and pop cultural artifacts and remixes.
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It strikes me as odd that when someone announces a new game, the press release spews a ton of circumstantial information at you but not a word about game play. Spiderman 3, predictably, will be filled to brim with original actors who should still be "in character" and the PS3 and XBOX360 capacity blablabla... — read on
He may not look like much, but earlier today Bastiaan switched my site back on. It had been h4x0red by a 733t 13-year old from Budapest. Yay.
Anyway, props to our savior.
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Last Saturday we flew around NYC in a Cessna. The weather was beautiful so I got some nice shots. If you can afford it, go do it.
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There goes the weekend. Hell of Sand — read on
Low & behold. Another machinoclast has surrendered and technology marches onward.
Also, look for his sister on there.
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Too hot to play games. Watch hilarious video instead. Friggin' awesome....
Half of the work in getting a Ph.D is purely logistical. This is my attempt to create a degree of coherence in the influx of game-related news, data, tidbits, announcements, CFPs, book reviews, commentary and nonsense that finds its way onto my screen every day.