News from Adrian's blog is that Sean Cubitt has a blog. Now, Sean's writing is not for the faint at heart but for the strong of mind. Eg: The multidimensional mysteries facing the analyst of light in the early 21st century are neither more nor less characteristic of our times than ...

I'd like to just take a moment and share with you what it is like being in industry and academia. This post is actually in response to Monique's comment yesterday: Hi Christy, Ah the terming debate… sigh. Now, what Monique is referring to is my recent rantings about terminology on this blog. I highlight it ...

Tejpaul Bhatia, the founder of Tej Media Networks & senior manager of international business strategy for ESPN New Media, was recently interviewed on Kevin Roberts site SISOMO about "multi-platform storytelling". Multi-platform story-telling requires story-teller’s to think on multiple levels and in multiple dimensions. The audience is no longer in one place and no ...

Recently, a top Hollywood special effects company -- Digital Domain -- announced that they will be investing 25 million into making "creating a video game that matches the quality of a feature film". Well, as you can imagine, the gaming community found this claim pretty insulting. Well respected game designer ...

An interview with Trent Reznor (the man behind NiN and the ARG Year Zero) reveals that the only way forward for the music industry is for the industry to step aside and let the artists do their thing, and pay them for it: When your US label, Interscope, discovered the web-based alternate reality ...

Read Write Web has published an article on the top 60 Web 2.0 companies in Australia: At Future Exploration Network's Web 2.0 in Australia event on June 6, we are including a showcase of the top five examples of Web 2.0 coming out of this glorious country. Identifying who we wanted ...

The Brisband chapter of the IGDA have invited me to give a talk and workshop next week in Queensland: GAME_ON: talk and workshop- tues 5 june, 5-7pm @ KGUV Community Hub, Carraway St, Kelvin Grove 'Alternate Reality Games: Multi-Platform & Multi-World Design' In this talk Christy Dena will provide an overview of the pervasive ...

Some links about finance and virtual worlds, MMORPGs and the digital games industry in general: simExchange: simExchange is a simulation of the stock market, for the games industry. You predict sales of games. They actually market it is a pedagogical game, in the sense that you learn about the games industry ...

The sequel to Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, will be launched in cinemas on July 18, 2008. Warner Bros are busy with preparing audiences now, however, with an emerging online 'alternate reality' campaign. On May 12, Warner Bros put the official teaser site online [source]. The site has the batman image, ...

ARGFest-o-Con was held during March 2-4  in San Francisco. Videos of the sessions are at youtube, and here.