Exploring the archaeology in (and of) video games.
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) […]
Thanks to No Man’s Sky‘s Online Services wonky behavior, human-occupied systems can completely disappear without a trace, only to resurface at a moment’s notice once the connection to the servers is […]
Asphodel and its only surviving base have changed between its founding in April 2017 and the Atlas Rises event in August. The Birdcage once shared a planet with other player […]
0915 Hello, everyone! Yours truly has a press pass to the very first TriBeCa Games Festival! I will be live-blogging the sessions this morning, so refresh the page if you […]
The 50th anniversary conference for the Society of Historical Archaeology was held from January 4–8, 2017, in Fort Worth, Texas. Archaeogaming featured in two sessions. L. Meghan Dennis (University of […]
Over the past six months I’ve been busy writing my book, Archaeogaming: An Introduction to Archaeology in (and of) Video Games. Because I’ve been writing the book, I haven’t been writing […]
Below is a map/chart of archaeogaming as I see it, and largely reflects what I and my colleagues are doing in the field right now. There is certainly a lot […]
Originally posted on The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World:
Last spring, Richard Rothaus and I had a few conversations with with Andrew Reinhard about the idea of archaeogaming. Andrew has…
The world’s first, dedicated archaeogaming conference will be held on April 4–5, 2016, at the University of Leiden, courtesy of the Value Project. Register and submit an abstract! Source: Introducing […]
Originally posted on The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World:
This last month has been pretty fun. I’ve been thinking a bit about object biographies, reading for a multibook review, and, believe it or not, still thinking about the Alamogordo Atari Expedition. While these things rattled around in my brain, I got to pondering the life history of the Atari games.…
Dear Gentle Readers, Please take a moment of your time to help a Leiden MA candidate, Fleur Schinning, with an end-user questionnaire on archaeological blogging: From Fleur: “For my master […]
The first ever Archaeogaming unconference is happening June 1, 2015. It’s free and open to the public. Spearheaded by Electric Archaeology (Shawn Graham) with support from GamingArchaeo (Tara Copplestone) and […]
The University of York (UK) invited the “Atari Burial Ground” archaeologists to speak via Skype at the recent conference, Digital Heritage Meets Interactive Storytelling. Bill Caraher and I were able […]
Judith Winters, editor of Internet Archaeology, asked me to review the game Never Alone from an archaeological perspective, studying how it connects to prevailing material culture while building a story […]
UPDATE [Nov. 12, 2014 at 7:35 p.m. EST]: More oddness: The Atari games on Ebay have dropped from 96 to 94 lots, including the $850 E.T. game with 30 bids. […]
Originally posted on Raiford Guins:
Atari’s ewaste is on the move. SInce being excavated/processed/documented in April 2014 the retrieved materials have been stored by the City of Alamogordo and branded…
