Technology
The team behind FIFA
FIFA is a widely popular series of video games, released yearly to millions of eager fans all around the world. Boasting exclusive licenses from football leagues...
Continue reading...“Mobile gaming isn’t gaming”
Last week at BlizzCon 2018, a gaming convention held by the video game developer Blizzard Entertainment, Blizzard Entertainment announced its newest game: ‘Diablo Immortal’. This announcement...
Continue reading...Influencia Algorithmica
The (virtual) world of Neopets
Growing up, one of my fondest childhood memories were of me playing Neopets. I remember how excited I would be at the thought of being able...
Continue reading...Pokémon Go, our virtual playground
“Playgrounds are everywhere once you start looking.” I’m sure everyone here has played (or at least heard of) Pokémon Go, the mobile game that took the...
Continue reading...Get fit with Wii Fit
I like Pokémon Go. It forces me to go outside in order to play and I personally find that a good thing. A side effect of...
Continue reading...A wave of digital icons
“By the end of the 1960s and the early 1970s, the digital image […] became a powerful tool for simulating reality that will deceive in future...
Continue reading...Pinocchio and his digital translation
‘Once upon a time there was a piece of wood.’ This was just the beginning of the fairytale of Pinocchio, an animated wooden marionette dreaming of...
Continue reading...Double-keying
Computers can do anything or almost anything. They can even read books with the help of Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Images from printed pages are converted...
Continue reading...Doomed to fail?
This week I am going to predict something. When I wrote about Tamagotchis a few weeks back I talked about how companies utilize people’s feelings of...
Continue reading...YouTube; A Career Platform?
During the process of writing blogs I realized that there is so much that we take for granted nowadays. Several pieces of digital structure have been...
Continue reading...Digital Media, A Connection or Separation?
A few days before, I was reading a ‘Webtoon’ (online cartoon) called Collage Journal (대학일기). This particular episode depicted people playing Pokémon Go, which is a...
Continue reading...Getting Fit with Pokémon Go
When it comes to video games there always seem to be these ideas and prejudices flying around that they make you lazy, aggressive, anti-social and more....
Continue reading...The Co-existence of Positive and Negative Aspects of Internet
I remember watching an animation film ‘Wall-E’ a few years ago. To be honest, I do not perfectly remember the full story. This one scene, however,...
Continue reading...Digital Media and Nuance
The time I spent on Facebook was mainly used to look at recipe GIFS and memes. The Facebook algorithm however infered I was very fond of...
Continue reading...Don’t tell me, GIF me!
The language of digital communication is changing over time, especially in this last decade, in which many “accessories” have been created so as to make digital...
Continue reading...Venice Time Machine
Probably one of the coolest digital historical projects I’ve ever run into is the Venice Time Machine. Before we talk any further, you should watch a...
Continue reading...Travel: get to know the world
Today I would like to do a bit of an excursion from the usual theme I have in my blog. From the second of October till...
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