Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey and Real Archaeology
Introduction Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey continues the franchise’s deep dive into Antiquity, featuring over 60 hours (so far, for me) of deep play in the Greek world of the 5th century […]
Film: The Legacy Hub Archaeological Project
I conducted the Legacy Hub Archaeological Project in between the release of No Man’s Sky v1.3 (Atlas Rises) and v1.5 (NEXT), documenting the abandoned player settlements and communication stations of […]
A Procedurally Generated Archaeology Mission in No Man’s Sky
Introduction Archaeology and archaeological missions are now part of No Man’s Sky in the version 1.5 “NEXT” update. Much like the Archaeology skill and mechanic in World of Warcraft’s “Cataclysm” […]
Fortnite: Permanent Ephemera
Fortnite (Epic Games 2017) is a sandbox survival game where players (either individually or in teams) fight to stay alive, employing various strategies for movement, hiding, attacks, and […]
Ethnoarchaeology in No Man’s Sky
Ethnoarchaeology is “the study of the social organization and other ethnological features of present-day societies on the basis of their material culture, in order to draw conclusions about past societies […]
The Ruins of the Bez-Harr Embassy
On 3 October 2017 I received a note from No Man’s Sky player KingJamesHova with a link to a YouTube video showing him unearthing the Bez-Harr Embassy. “I can show you […]
Exploring an Abandoned Base in No Man’s Sky
[UPDATED 2 Oct. 2017: See end of this post.] 1 October 2017 was quite a day for discovery for the No Man’s Sky Archaeological Survey. In addition to the buried settlement […]
Archaeogaming 