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 of Warcraft, [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + the Law| Death + the Web
- Tags: 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 [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Humor| Death + Popular Culture| Death + the Web
- Tags: digital archiving, games, thanatos, video