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Monthly Archives: November 2013
Call of Duty: Ghosts – A Hill
In Call of Duty: Ghosts there is a multiplayer map called Prison Break, and I guess that there’s some reason that it is called that, though I can’t tell you what it might be. The top-down view doesn’t do the map justice, … Continue reading
Posted in Video Games
Tagged call of duty: ghosts, multiplayer, realism, video games
McKenzie Wark on the Ludic Century
The twenty-first century – the ludic century – is animated in part by just that fantasy: that the feedback loop can be closed, and action can be modified in realtime depending on data about its immediate effects. Of course in … Continue reading
Posted in Theory, Video Games
Tagged mckenzie wark, video games
The Fake Gamer t-shirt
There’s been an outbreak of a syndrome–fake gamers multiply by the day. They’ve never played A Link To The Past. They can’t hadouken. They don’t know what grue is; they don’t know to be afraid. I’ve made a shirt to … Continue reading
Posted in General Features
Tagged fake gamer, t-shirt, video games
Marcom in A Brief History of Yes
So now it is Maria’s turn to laugh. She laughs. And the girl opens her mouth and all of the laughing animals and not-animals run out of her mouth and into the air–which butterflies and sandhill cranes which hillside songbird … Continue reading
Posted in Quote Time, Theory
Tagged a brief history of yes, book, Micheline Aharonian Marcom, quote
Call of Duty: Ghosts – Death as a Language
In Call of Duty: Ghosts there is a map called “Whiteout” and within that map I often wander. I roam the map in solitude because despite always coming to this map in order to play team-based activities, I never manage to play … Continue reading
Posted in Video Games
Tagged call of duty: ghosts, death, language, video games
Terry Kennedy on his Baker 3 Part
Posted in Skateboarding
Tagged baker 3, skateboarding, terry kennedy
Samantha Allen on the Transgender Day of Remembrance
On November 20th, we cannot mourn the past without interrogating our present. It’s easy to grieve the dead; it’s harder to come to terms with our complicity in their oppression, with the parts of ourselves that would still regard a … Continue reading
Posted in Quote Time
Tagged samantha allen, trans*
Kanye via Isaac
I’m writing on Kanye and the videogame aesthetic right now. Sample:
