Willkommen zum interaktiven Forschungsspiel über Online-Pen-and-Paper-Rollenspiele! Diese werden durch die Corona-Pandemie immer beliebter. Rollenspieler*innen verlegen die Spiele wegen der Kontaktbes…
“It’s amazing to think those little circuits that we can carry around were an entire world to us.” –Diana*, interviewee “We might …
Last month, the highly anticipated video game Mortal Kombat 11 (MK11) was released to an excited yet wary fighting game community. Game …
Editor’s Note: This is a co-authored piece written by Spencer Ruelos and Amanda Cullen, both PhD students in the Informatics department at …
Just a collection of helpful resources for Quake Champions, created by members of the community: The ↑Guide for Optimizing Fun in …
A crowd of fans and friends circle around Asa Tims, at upper left. Tims speedruns and commentates on others’ runs under the …
A crouchsliding tutorial with keypresses visible, slow motion, freeze frames, and explanation in voiceover. The tutorial aims at conveying an understanding …
From Megahealth to Heavy Armor in a second or so, and more exploits of the strange qualities of the pots combined …
Bridge to Rail is just one of the jumps in Quake Champions Anarki can do with a circlejump only. As there …
The Bridge to Rail jump done backward and forward with all champions, without using their respective special abilities. Plus a tutorial …
The newly introduced Tri-Bolt and the Nailgun offer climbing techniques in Quake Champions – apart from Rocketjumping. So, in principle all …
The most ferocious weapon in “Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds!” This is actual online gameplay (nothing staged, never met the other player before), enhanced …
Ten minutes of classic “Quake Live” Free for All deathmatch madness on the map “Hell’s Gate” (formerly Q3TOURNEY3). Featuring a nice …
By Nick Mizer and Jared Miracle Pokemon Go, the blockbuster new augmented reality game developed by Niantic, hit the US on July …
Elder Scrolls Screenshot Photo by Author By Rayna Elizabeth Elder Scrolls takes place in the world of Tamriel. Published by Bethesda (who …
By Krista Harper with Sam Anderson In my last blog post, I described my recent course on “Anthropology of/through Games.” Students in …
In part one of this two-part series, Krista Harper (UMass Amherst) provides insight into her successful Fall 2014 course, “Anthropology of/through Games.” There …
By Christine Tomlinson To read Tom Boellstorff’s introduction to this book reviews series, head over to The Book Review as Conversation. T. L. Taylor. …
Unfortunately I got a daytime job. That’s unfortunate—in a way, granted—’cause ‘Grand Theft Auto V’ (GTA5) for PC finally hit the storeshelves …
EM: Can you tell me a little bit about your book? NDS: I was in the first cohort of the Robert Wood Johnson …
Look at what you can make out of ‘Minecraft.’ Just look at it. Neither the idea nor the mods necessary …
Meanwhile everybody playing ‘↵Watch Dogs‘ (Ubisoft Montreal 2014) seems to know about the dealer’s showroom in ↑The Loop where you can easily …
Obviously I am not at all informed, let alone up to date—granted. But then again this wasn’t really to be expected. Not …