I remember when I bought my first video game system in 1990. It was a Nintendo Entertainment System, and I played Super Mario Brothers for hours at a time. I would sit with my friends, each of us tightly gripping the controller as the 8-bit music chattered at us and we excitedly pushed plastic buttons [...]
Posts Tagged ‘halo’
Videogaming culture
Posted in Media, tagged culture, halo, video gaming on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When the Commodity and the Ad Are One
Posted in Media, tagged halo, Halo video, Media on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you have not seen anything of Halo, you should look at some of my other posts for some machinima videos before you watch this one. This is a short film made to publicize Halo 3. The flashy parts are interesting, like actually seeing a real Warthog or seeing a Halo sniper rifle or Brutes [...]
Gone are the days of Pong and Mario…
Posted in Media, tagged ARGs, halo, non-linear on October 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the things that intrigues me is how there are certain games that are pushing the form of traditional video gaming. What interests me is the shift from a linear structure to a more free-form nonlinear structure. This structure, though, is not always seen, because, at least currently, the idea of the HIDDEN is [...]
Complexity
Posted in Media, tagged complexity, halo, Media, revolution, video gaming on September 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The world is undergoing a revolution. In fact, it isn’t irrational to claim that ever since the invention of the telegraph, the world has been undergoing one massive media revolution composed of many smaller revolutions. With each extension of our bodies (as McLuhan defines a medium), we reconfigure ourselves—we reconstruct the ways our minds view reality, and [...]
Vacating (from The Halo Medium)
Posted in Travel, tagged halo, leisure, vacation, vacation photos on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just got back from vacation, and it was awesome. I needed to go somewhere far away and unwind, and this totally did the trick. The scenery was totally high-res, except for a couple really lame places that bordered on analog, but for the most part it was really nice. My wife really liked the solitude of [...]
