From the monthly archives: February 2005

The package has been delivered… I repeat…

By On 28/02/2005 ·

One should not fail to mention that esteemed former PhD student, long-time Age of Kings show-off and much besides, Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, handed in his massively multi-page PhD dissertation on games and education quite recently.

We who are about to write salute you.

Update: Simon’s timely thesis will be the third game dissertation [...]

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A frame in a frame

By On 28/02/2005 ·

Are you a techie? I want to combine two video signals – one shows players in a couch, the other shows on-screen game action. And I want to do it with a minimum of post-recording hassle (I don’t care so much about the complexity of the set-up).
Right now, what I’m going for [...]

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CFP: Aesthetics of Play (Bergen)

By On 25/02/2005 ·

Aesthetics of Play
A conference on computer game aesthetics

University of Bergen, Norway
October 14-15, 2005

http://www.aestheticsofplay.org

We invite proposals for papers to be presented at the conference Aesthetics of Play, to be held at the University of Bergen 14-15 October 2005. The conference is hosted by the Department [...]

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Quiet time

By On 25/02/2005 ·

From the online adventures of Garrg the Warlock (Shadowmoon server).

Yep, that’s me, the adventurous Garrg. Rejoining my transludic lighthouse quest I have set out across the sprawling world of Azeroth – the picture shows me taking a brief rest from my attempt to swim around the entire continent. Join me, water lovers.

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Complete confidence

By On 18/02/2005 ·

Denmark has a new minister of immigration, refugees, and integration. She recently campained from a moving hotdog van.

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