Exploring the archaeology in (and of) video games.
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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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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. […]
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 […]
On January 28, 2018, I posted a full write-up on what I consider to be landscape archaeology of a valley and village in Skyrim, which sought to apply […]
Come play with us! Lennart Linde (Goethe-University Frankfurt) and I are organizing a panel on “practical archaeogaming” for the 2018 EAA annual meeting in September in Barcelona. Here’s what that […]
Archaeogaming: An Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games (Berghahn Books, New York/Oxford), has been published, and all orders will begin to ship mid-June to North American readers, and […]
There are three major braids to archaeogaming: external, applied, and reflexive (hat-tip to Tara Copplestone for this elegant demarcation of the discipline). As she defines them: 1) external archaeogaming examines […]
