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Raimi to Direct ‘World of Warcraft’ Movie

According to a recent article in Variety, Sam Raimi, the legendary director that brought out such classics as Spiderman and the Evil Dead series will be slated to direct the live-action adaptation of the popular online role-playing game “World of Warcraft”. The film will be produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Raimi plans to begin [...]

Five Ways to Get Laid at a Science Fiction Convention

1) Know Your Territory

If you’re planning to pick up girls at a sci-fi convention realize quickly that you’re not in Kansas anymore. Realize that the girls here are more interested in Firefly and Battlestar Galactica than they are in meeting men. So the best advice I can give here is know what the fuck you’re talking [...]

Do Virtual Worlds Have Economic Recessions?

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Here’s an article I originally wrote for Campus X Magazine here in Toronto but since they didn’t pay me or anything I thought I’d post it on my blog for those interested.
In 1992, science fiction author, Neal Stephenson, published his third novel, Snow Crash.  [...]

Postmodernism and the Video Game (Part Five)

Pastiche, Intertextuality & Genre Hybridity
“The writers and artists of the present day will no longer be able to invent new styles and worlds – they’ve already been invented; only a limited number of combinations are possible…in a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead [...]

Postmodernism and the Video Game (Part Four)

Emergent Gameplay
In 1989, Russian chess grandmaster, Garry Kasparov, defeated the computer, Deep Thought, in a two-game championship chess match. In the move before Deep Thought’s defeat it took the computer three seconds to decide its next move. Now why is it significant? It’s just three seconds after all. Answer this. Why would a computer that [...]