What’s Next
Discussing upcoming changes to the blog and what to expect for the near future.
And the Key Goes To…
On March 22, 2019, I announced that I would be stepping away from this blog and from the archaeogaming Twitter account in order to finish my archaeology PhD at the […]
Human Archaeology in Persistent Digital Spaces
Presented at TAG Syracuse Session 006, May 4, 2019. Below is the text-as-presented. Click HERE for the MP3 audio, which I pre-recorded (should you want to listen). My sincere thanks go […]
Machine-Created Culture: Abdication
We did this to ourselves. Humanity’s core set of needs include: food, water, protection from the environment (i.e., clothing and/or shelter), survival of the species. A fifth core need must […]
Publication: An Archaeogaming Grand Challenge
Introduction The diverse archaeogaming community of practice shares one grand challenge that stands out over all others: publication. This brief post breaks the challenge down into three major points: 1) […]
An End of an Era in No Man’s Sky: NEXT
POST UPDATED ON 27 JULY 2018. SCROLL TO BOTTOM FOR NEW DATA. The latest iteration of No Man’s Sky, v1.5 “NEXT”, marks the second extinction-level event in the game’s two-year […]
Bluegrass: If You Build It, They Will Come
The blurb on reddit began: Are you tired of being shot down by pirates? Space stations looking a little sterile? Need a little “me time”? Do you yearn for simple […]
Deep Thought on V-1 Onsen IV
Onsen is the second of two neighboring planets paying tribute to Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Alone in Euclid Galaxy, a colossal reconstruction of the Deep Thought computer broadcasts […]
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to New Ireland
Fans of Douglas Adams’ 1979 novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy will recognize the giant thumb on the billboard posted above CrispyChrisu’s base. This is the first of a brace […]
The Movable Base of Meridian Village
Meridian used to be a forested world with the Meridian Village Grand Prix race track. Now the planet is stripped of trees, its name has changed, and the Meridian Village […]
The Planet of Lost Lore
Lofamy: Lore, Fable, and Myth. It is a “sacred” planet, and another of the key worlds Travelers may choose to visit while creating their own path through the universe of No […]
The Glitched Ruins of Langley
Langley is one of a handful of true ruins in the old Galactic Hub in No Man’s Sky, and is the only one (so far) that can be purposely glitched by […]
The Excavation of Sunaru2’s Farm
After visiting several Legacy Hub sites I continue to think that nothing will surprise me, yet every site has at least one strange feature. Sunaru2’s farm (aka Binoscope’s Pad) has […]
Five Years of Archaeogaming
On June 10, 2013, I registered the Archaeogaming domain and wrote my first post. Five years and nearly 200 posts later, the Archaeogaming book will be published by Berghahn Books, the Twitter account […]
Ghost World: The Haunted Base of Abundance (RIP)
Ghost World Once upon a time on Abundance, the warm wind blew the tops of the purple tallgrass of Vodeye and shook the red-leaf canopy of the Hieksa Forest. […]
Tomb Raider and God of War at the TriBeCa Games Festival
In its second year, the TriBeCa Games Festival—tacked on to the end of the TriBeCa Film Festival—featured a night of panel discussions with digital storytellers, which featured Shadow of the […]
