One of my fellow students, Karin, wrote a fair share of her blogs about the Japanese character Hatsune Miku. Check out Karins blog if you want to know more about her.One of her latest blogs (‘Marrying Hatsune Miku’) covered the phenomenon of people marrying non-people. Come again? At least, that was my initial response. I couldn’t imagine a man marrying something as…
I was never much of a gamer. Of course, I built my fair share of Sims houses and Zoo Tycoon cages, but never anything beyond that. My boyfriend however can’t stop talking about them. After 2.5 years of being together, I have heard all about the Warhammer 40k lore, Stellaris expansions, Bethesda dropping quality due to their tenfold of staff, The Witcher…
The last blog already. And what better way to start it then with a quote from Margaret Mitchells Gone With the Wind? For this last blog I want to summarize what I have been trying to do with all these past blogs. When I started to do the course Digital Media, Society and Culture the class was told to do all these…
So, all these weeks I have been blogging about all these different ways to make history fun and more modern using digital means. Today I would like to look at a more serious approach. I want to get a spotlight on the different learning networks and different ways that you can use nowadays to learn about history online. So, all these weeks…
Am I doing it? Am I finally doing it? No, I am not going to write my own song using Vocaloid. Perhaps that could be a project for the future, but not now. But I am going to commit to doing research about Vocaloid.Although it might seem as if I already commited to this long time ago, I always still had my…
For my last blog I want to make another prediction, with the simple reason that I came up with multiple predictions while preparing my presentation. With all this talk about video games and specifically about gender in video games I became curious about the future of gender representation in video games in particular. Battlefield is adding women and the Sims is making…
Games with historic themes have been popular since the early beginnings. Popular historic game titles are Command & Conquer, Rome: Total War and Age of Empires. One of the game studios that has been popular lately is Paradox Interactive, a Swedish game studio. They made many successful historic games in the past and are still making new titles and expansions. Currently their…
TRANSCRIPT: Hi guys, Im J and welcome to my blog! Today I am doing a different kind of post. I am doing a video review on my top childhood games! To me, growing up was full of games. Me and my cousins used to meet up on the weekend and play them together at my grandmas house. Everyone would jump on their…
