According to Lizzie Stark, author of a new book on the history of Live-action Roleplay (LARP), Leaving Mundania, the history of LARP dates back far beyond the era of Tolkein-esque fantasy to the Romans and Elizabethans: Queen Elizabeth I presided over some serious, and seriously expensive, larplike
As we get older, it gets harder to make new friends. We hold our high school and college friends closer; making a new friend seems to take lot of time and effort. We’re less willing to befriend someone completely strange to us. The NY Times has some explanations in their article: As external conditi
The third in what looks to be a series (following a “Brief History of Videogames” and “Game Deaths“) of videogame montages that run from the first pixel to the latest BMP masterpiece, “The Evolution of PC Games,” dishes out references to the new canon of virtual desktop games. Of course, the result
There are plenty of ghosts, liches, and spectres in games set in Renaissance and Medieval times. But how did people at the time, in our world, explain things like static electricity and diabetes? Robert Burton (1577-1640), in investigating depression in his Anatomy of Melancholy, digressed into a st
Puma’s interactive ad game, Run Puma Run, drops the languid austerity of their typical design for the sexy memory of the screen-lit suburban basement or the dingy arcade. Perhaps London 2012 could have predicted the pixelated fever dream of this year’s favorite screen fashion, but then again that wo
A writer over at Make spotted this Paris game-store floor on Facebook. True, it’s flat, but is that really the right word for it?
“Most people have no idea of any game designer. They might be able to name one, maybe.” —Rod Humble, executive on The Sims, Second Life, Everquest, The Marriage, etc. Perhaps it’s time we stop and let the developers, artists, designers, and directors do the talking. In preparation of an upcoming doc