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 […]
A Defense of Practical Archaeogaming
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 […]
Call for Papers: Archaeological Investigation in Synthetic Worlds: Practical Applications of Theory and Method (EAA 2018, Session 66)
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: The Book (what’s in it, and how to order)
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 […]
A Grand Challenge: Applied Archaeogaming
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 […]
Objects, Media, and Moviemaking: Narrating the Alamogordo Atari Expedition
The excavation of the “Atari Burial Ground” happened back in April 2014, and the team of archaeologists continues to write about it. Team member Bill Caraher blogged “Objects, Media, and […]
Public Comments Open: Legacy Hub Archaeological Project
Following Martin Carver’s lead as outlined in his book Archaeological Investigation, I have created a project plan for the Legacy Hub Archaeological Project and am sharing it publicly for comment until […]
Excavation! Game for the 2017 Heritage Jam
Here is the third of three games that I wrote for the 2017 Heritage Jam, which falls on Open Access week. If you’re an artist and want to collaborate in […]
Assemblage: Game for the 2017 Heritage Jam
This is the second of three games that I’m giving away for the 2017 Heritage Jam and Open Access Week. I hope you enjoy playing, and if you’re an artist […]
WTF?!?!? (What’s that Feature?): Game for the 2017 Heritage Jam
In 2017 the Heritage Jam falls during the same time as Open Access Week, so I am making the three new games I designed available as CC0 (public domain), releasing […]
EAA: Epic Archaeogaming Achievement
The 2017 European Association for Archaeologists was held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, and the final morning hosted a session (#275) of 15 papers on archaeogaming, organized by L. Meghan Dennis, […]
Archaeogaming Redefined
What’s in a name? When I created the Archaeogaming blog and Twitter in 2013, I had a hard-and-fast definition for “archaeogaming”: the archaeology in (and of) video games. Over the […]
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