Archive for March 29th, 2006

This Friday (03.31.06) on The Signal…

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

An hour of radio stories dedicated to the subtle and vampiric lure of the virtual world…

a gamer sits with his customized desktop PC

This is Xavier Naldo, the Vin Diesl of PC Gamers. Yo Xavier, pimp my PC!

  • We’ll visit Greenbelt, Maryland, where a group of hardcore PC gamers settle in for a 14-hour video game marathon
  • We’ll meet a cadre of cyber-artists who get paid to play video games at Firaxis Headquarters in Hunt Valley
  • We’ll hear the story of an ill-fated sci-fi cyber-romance that blurs the boundary between fantasy and reality
  • And a conversation with author Lev Grossman about his novel CODEX, which poses the question: Is there even a difference between “real life” and the virtual world?

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gamers sit at a folding table with their PC's wired together at a LAN party

These gamers are wired together in a fire hall in Greenbelt, Maryland, for a fourteen-hour video game marathon.