Introduction Stalker is by no means the only game which recreates “historic” places (see Kapell and Elliott 2013). The most notable parallels are the various iterations of Assassin’s Creed which represent the 12th century Levant (Damascus, Acre, Jerusalem), Rennaissance Italy (Florence and Rome) and 18th century America (Boston and New …
Given my deja vu experience at Robert Maxwell’s talk (CHAT 2012), I thought it would be worthwhile to return to Stalker’s Pripyat to do an archaeological survey. If only as an inspiration for tourism, the game might be seen as an element of dark heritage, albeit as a vicarious experience. …
I haven’t posted on this blog for some time, partly because I have been travelling. Specifically, I have been in north east Ukraine, fighting my way towards the abandoned town of Pripyat. Along the way I have killed and maimed a lot of people, mostly bandits, together with a number …
…it’s just been misremembered The internet is filling up with crap. My personal pet hate is misquotations, or the meme-ing of quotations without citation. Is this because I am a pedantic academic twat, or is it that by this process, crap gets spread around and actually finding genuine information gets …
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts… A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations …
I just finished reading Stand on Zanzibar (1968) by John Brunner. To save you looking it up, the title comes from the fact that at the time of writing, the World’s population would have fitted, shoulder to shoulder, on the Isle of Wight. By 2010, when the novel is set, …