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 […]
Excavating a Buried Settlement in No Man’s Sky
On 1 October 2017 I discovered and conducted a preliminary investigation of an abandoned settlement in No Man’s Sky, and discovered another anomaly caused by the NMS v1.3 “Atlas Rises” update, which […]
The Lost City of D: Archaeology in the Legacy Hub of No Man’s Sky
Climate change forced an entire civilization to evacuate to the stars. It’s the inspiration for the action in Christopher Nolan’s 2014 film Interstellar, but it also just happened here on […]
The No Man’s Sky Archaeological Survey: One Year In
Hello Games launched No Man’s Sky for North American Playstation 4 on August 9, 2016, gradually rolling out the game to the rest of the world and onto PC (via […]
New AR Games
AR (typically) stands for “augmented reality.” AR games blend the “real” and “virtual” worlds together. For example, Pókemon Go is a popular AR game that takes you into the “real” […]
Adventures in the Upside Down: Massive No Man’s Sky Glitch
[UPDATE: Several people on Reddit have commented that what I report is a well known glitch that Hello Games has yet to fix. The glitch was new to my […]
No Man’s Sky Archaeological Survey Code of Ethics
No Man’s Sky Archaeological Survey Code of Ethics NOTE (15 August 2016): Version 0.3 of the Code is now available to read here. Version 0.2 with contributions from Catherine Flick […]
Archaeogaming featured on Motherboard (Vice)
Archaeogaming is featured on today’s Motherboard, the science and technology portion of the Vice newsgroup online. Click here (or on the image above) to read the piece, written by Kathleen […]
Reddit as Public Archaeology: Peer Review of the No Man’s Sky Archaeological Survey
On March 2, 2015, I wrote a post about the possibility of conducting an archaeological survey of the upcoming game from Hello Games, No Man’s Sky, to be released sometime […]
No Man’s Sky Archaeological Survey (NMSAS)
I sent the email below to Hello Games, developers of No Man’s Sky, to see about forming a xenoarchaeological team to document the material culture in the game (should there […]
Archaeological Methods in Archaeogaming
One of my intents with exploring the archaeology of video games is to create a set of archaeological methods that can be applied to conducting actual survey, excavation, and perhaps […]
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