Games culture 1998-2008

An archive by Zoya Street

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Few products have been launched with such a blizzard of publicity as Apple Inc.'s iPhone.

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Era of Eidolon: mobile gaming goes MMORPG

While to many, mobile gaming still means retro shoot 'em ups and simple trivia games, Danish developer Watagame has managed to produce a massively multiplayer RPG with a persistent online world and over 10,000 subscribers throughout Europe. What's more, Era of Eidolon can be downloaded to an array of current Java phones and takes up less than 100k of space. And it has a soundtrack composed by C64 legend Rob Hubbard for heaven's sake!

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Indie: The institutional politics and aesthetics of a popular music genre

Indie: The institutional politics and aesthetics of a popular music genre

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Before 'Angry Birds': the short life of click wheel iPod games

If a device has a screen, sooner or later someone will try to put a game on it. So even though the iPhone may not have been designed with gaming in mind, its sheer ubiquity has turned it into a...

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Orisinal games collection by Ferry Halim with Winterbells, Sunny Day Sky, These Little Pigs, Bubble Bees, Chicken Wings, Bum Bum Koala, Snowbowling, Dare Dozen, Cranky Crabs, and more!

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The marriage between technology and humanities will be uneasy, "not because the mind and the body are separate entities, but because human beings regard some domains and functions such as thinking and feeling as more 'real' and more 'valuable' than other functions such as perceiving and acting."

Silvan Tomkins (1962) Affect Imagery Consciousness, p. 6

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For most of America, incomes peaked at least 15 years ago

The U.S. economy may be recovering, but most Americans still have yet to see evidence of it in their paychecks. The map above shows when inflation-adjusted median household income peaked in counties around the U.S. over the past 45 years. In 81 percent of U.S. counties, that peak occurred at least 15 years ago. The […]

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Online Dating Is Turning Us All Into Tamagotchis

"Now our cell phones contain many Tamagotchi in the form of human relationships."

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All Nokia Mobile Phones

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The Oral History Of The Poop Emoji (Or, How Google Brought Poop To America)

Everyone's favorite emoji began in Japan. But without Google, it may have stayed there.

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