Posts Tagged ‘games’
This is What It Sounds Like When Avatars Die…
7, Nov 2009Virtual Estates Lead to Real-World Headaches Chris V. Nicholson, The New York Times (November 02, 2009) I am not an online gamer so I don’t have any experience with the bazillions of virtual worlds inhabited every day by living people. That said, it’s impossible to spend any time online these days without hearing about World [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + the Law|Death + the Web
- Tags: digital assets, games, memorializing, video
Video Game Ways to Die
4, Aug 2009I am not a gamer. All those newfangled surround sound polygons make me want to hurl. But as a plucky youth with a computer geek dad, I had the fond and formative experience of devouring Sierra computer adventure games, especially the King’s Quest series. I recently discovered via MetaFilter that a handful of painstaking souls [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Humor|Death + Popular Culture|Death + the Web
- Tags: digital archiving, games, thanatos, video