A Glance at the Current State of Video Game Preservation
A number of cultural institutions have begun to take an interest in videogame preservation--but before materials make it to the archives, they are managed by [...]
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Sep 2009
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Oct 2008
The Videogame Text
The word 'text' in this title does double duty. First, it identifies the videogame itself as a text in the general sense: the object of [...]
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Apr 2008
Rezzing Books: Codex Technology in the Metaverse
Since its official launch in 2003, Second Life, the popular 3D interactive world created by Linden Lab, has become an unlikely destination for librarians, bibliophiles, [...]
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Oct 2007
Simulating Liveness: From Virtual Vaudeville to Second Life
Manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, buildings and recordings can be preserved and archived for future generations. Live theatre, however, is ephemeral. This simple fact creates a tremendous [...]
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Nov 2006
Playing with Worlds: Narrative, Fiction, and the Cultural Reception of Videogames
When even the most perceptive scholars based in traditional, typographic forms of literacy turn their attention to videogames, the results can be disconcerting. Two of [...]