Course syllabus on virtual worlds
Here is the syllabus of the virtual worlds course that I’ll be teaching this term at Lawrence University. It is still in revision, so I’ll be updating it till it is finalized. Pwnd!!! Order, Conflict,...
View ArticleMusings of a Casual MMO player: On LFR, suburban gaming experience, and “back...
Edward Castronova suggests that recent MMOs have become more like Massively Single-Player games rather than environments that foster a communal experience and collaborative effort. One of his recent...
View ArticleNew article on Second Life, griefing groups, and paramilitary organizations…
At long last, my article, “Negotiating governance in virtual worlds: grief play, hacktivism, and LeakOps in Second Life,” is published in the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia for those...
View ArticleConsent to being monitored… for a monthly fee, of course
So… Elder Scrolls Online is about to be released! Yay… then I clicked on the EULA they posted online because… well just because. I don’t know, I am about to teach my Virtual Worlds class again this...
View ArticleRecap of EVE Online Fan Fest
Last year, EVE Online celebrated its tenth year anniversary. An extraordinary feat for any game to have survived a decade while maintaining the interest of its player base… This is especially true for...
View ArticleHow I stopped worrying about getting ganked and learned to love destruction
If you’ve experienced virtual worlds, you know that economy is an integral part of the experience. It is what makes a world come alive. In fact, economic activity is the selling point of virtual...
View ArticleTraining in EVE…
After 6 months actively playing EVE, I am finally beginning to understand and enjoy EVE. No game is merely just shoot and kill, but this game in particular requires an elaborate strategy to survive....
View ArticleGoonswarm meetup – Summer edition
Just wrapped up yet another Goonswarm meetup in Madison. And the nerd-o-meter was off the charts. Seriously. Much fun was had by all. Time was spent playing the Battlestar Galactica board game into the...
View ArticleNew article draft: When Inmates Run the Asylum
So, I just finished the first draft of my article on peer surveillance in virtual worlds. The draft is available here. This will be a chapter in the current book I am working on, Grief Play: The Art of...
View ArticleThe VR Bu(g)zz
Oculus Rift, Project Morpheus, CastAR by Technical Illusions, Glyph by Avegant, Google Cardboard VR, Mark IV by Gameface, Durovis’s Dive VR, InfinitEye by InfinitEyeVR… VR is ON… and in a big way. It...
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