Archive: november 22, 2008

On the LOC Preserving Virtual Worlds Project [History Is Fun!]

I've mentioned my love for the delightful How They Got Game, which catalogues some of the neat holdings of the Stanford Stephen M. Cabrinety Collection (among other things); now, they're getting some love from the Stanford alumni magazine, which highlights the Library of Congress 'Preserving Virtual Worlds' project (including, naturally, the Stanford initiative). Curator Henry Lowood discusses what Stanford is doing, and how, while Beth Dulabahn of the Library of Congress talks about why the LOC is behind all of this:
One of Lowood's recent additions to the virtual worlds archive is a short compilation...

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Tags: Archives, Culture, History is fun!, Library Of Congress, Loc, Preservation, Stanford

Dec 14 University of Leicester launching virtual worlds research project

Sep 8 PODCAST: NIC MITHAM, CEO OF K ZERO

Mar 2 Preserving Our History: Preservation For Gamers [History]

Jul 26 Guardian - Tech Weekly Podcast: Virtual Worlds Special

Mar 16 RetroforceGO! recording episode 41 tonight: Hardware special #1: Controllers

May 14 Project Explores Islam Through Virtual Worlds

Apr 25 McKinsey: ignore Second Life at your peril

Feb 26 Virtual and real blur in Eve Online

Jun 6 Virtual Worlds Timeline: the Origins and Evolution of Social Virtual Worlds

Aug 19 University of Texas Chronicles Virtual History

Mar 2 Searching for a new virtual life

Nov 6 Gamers don't take game worlds seriously enough, accuses Bleszinski

May 19 90 Percent of Business-Launched Virtual Worlds Fail

Jul 5 From the Margins to the Mainland: the Future of Virtual Worlds? [Virtual Worlds]

Jun 19 Near London Virtual World

Sep 12 Captain Obvious: Racial bias exists in virtual worlds

Feb 18 Wii Virtual Console Update 02/18/08: Phantasy Star II and Ninja Gaiden III

Dec 30 Running an MMO? That's a lawsuit.

Jun 9 Bruce Damer : A New Virtual World Winter?

Feb 23 Government After Terrorists in MMORPGs [Crime]

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Nov 22 [Updated] Gold Lancer Removed; Consider Lootathon Over [Great Banjo Lootathon]

OK, gang. I think the fun is over. Many of you pointed out that the Golden Lancer for Gears of War 2 is now either 99999 points or won't download. I tried to cue it up again and got the can't-download...

Nov 22 [Updated] Gold Lancer Removed, Revoked; Consider Lootathon Over [Great Banjo Lootathon]

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