Further to our discussion on gendered environments, here is a link to a piece of machinima made for the sole purpose it seems to pay tribute to the sublime nature of the environments in EVE. I have to admit, they do appeal to me. Although I am a guy so that’s probably not very surprising.

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I was shown this on youtube the other day, it seems to fit with machinima and it’s slightly festive.  It made all of us laugh, so hope everyone enjoys it. Tate – there is no link on this post, can you post the link in the comments please?

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Just thought I would let all those Mario fans know that it has been 25 years since the Italian plumber that we have all grown to love, just celebrated his 25th birthday. According to wikipedia, Mario has appeared in over 200 video games worldwide. All over the web, evidence of said momentous occasion can be [...]

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As I was saying in class the other day, Machinima (a contraction of ‘machine’ and ‘cinema’ which as far as I know no one knows how to pronounce) as found, for example, on Youtube, represents a really useful resource for representations of online environments, and is part of the ‘media ecology’ of what Mimi Ito [...]

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