Nicholas Quah

Digital Vestiges: What Will They Have of Me When I’m Gone?

Nicholas Quah / 9 October 2014

If this were a murder mystery, it would be a fine enough catalyst to a long, protracted investigation, complete with red herrings and an arc that would befit Raymond Chandler.

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What Happens When an Interactive Horror Experience Figures Out the Fourth Wall?

Nicholas Quah / 9 September 2014

P.T. has the digital world bleeding out into the real, hands flailing in search of something to hold onto so it can pull itself out of the game and into your living room.

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‘Console Wars’ Is a Deeply Flawed Telling of a Great Story about Videogames

Nicholas Quah / 18 August 2014

A book on the origins of Sega, a gaming industry giant of great historical importance, could have been great.

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How We Should Feel about the Facebook Emotion Manipulation Experiment?

Nicholas Quah / 31 July 2014

So it turns out that Facebook has been emotionally manipulating users as part of a scientific experiment. And it's partly our fault.

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The Benefits of Not Really Living: On Let’s Plays in Videogaming

Nicholas Quah / 17 July 2014

With Google looking to buy Twitch, we take a look back into an early form of videogame spectating and what it means in the context of that acquisition.