Archaeology and Games

...or "Archaeogaming" (actually "archeogaming" as it was arguably first coined with the american spelling) might be taken lightly, as a further abstraction from 'true' disciplinary rigour and a way to 'commercialise' it adding more biases, tho I actually write about it from [Hutching and LaSalle reference to add here...] critical standpoint (tl;dr: arch is mostly a state crime in current world, I'm not trying to sustain it by making it 'fantastic', just wanting to rant with its narratives).
Do I still hold responsibilities about it? Yes I do, and yet here they are my blogs, so I'm writing this one as a sort of context for them and a collection of resources on the topic.

Outside of personal dreams, I've discovered "archeogaming" as an academic debate first, starting from the standpoint of its ethical issues [here reference NMS survey ethics paper].
Nonetheless, I consider the problematic side of this whole topic of archaeology and games as necessarily inheriting from the very discipline at large. To be completely honest, I've decided to start writing this particular blogpost by the chance of reading the title of the Hutching and La Salle's last paper "Archaeology Endgame: ..." while I was setting the website's categories.
I just couldn't resist the pun about "archaeology-and-games/endgame".

Jokes aside, it was a due reminder for me and my stances, as I am doing this whole blogging thing as a personal project -for my own entertainement first- but I cannot ignore the 'political' implications on the matter.
Those led me to make some complicate choices for my 'career' in archaeology as well as daily life, so couldn't just start sharing contents like this, without saying a word.

And I'm glad this time I don't want to say this because I need to somehow 'justify' myself writing about a scientific discipline and a highly popular entertainement medium, but because there are some serious stances to consider which adds value to such an encounter while opening the debate about core issues rooted in both topics.

[To be continued...]