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Football Fans — Here’s Collinsworth NFL 10
1:00PM Owen Good | Cris Collinsworth took over as the colour analyst for the Madden franchise last year. John Madden retired from broadcasting this year. As this video suggests, it’s only a matter of time before the ex-Bengals receiver takes over the title More »
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Toys R Us Launches Game Trade-Ins Nationwide
12:20AM Mike Fahey | The trade-in program Toys R Us was testing back in March seems to have tested well, as the retailer launches said program nationwide today, accepting used games from the Atari 2600 on up. More »The Warcraft Retrospective – From Utopia To Adventures
4:00AM Mike Fahey | Gametrailers has just launched part one of their in-depth look at everything Warcraft, The Warcraft Retrospective. It’s a comprehensive look at the origins of the Blizzard property, and when I say comprehensive I mean they go back to the original real-time strategy game, Don Daglow’s 1982 game Utopia for the Intellivision, through Warcraft 1 & 2, and even feature footage from the abandoned Warcraft Adventures game. So entertaining and informative that I almost forgot to set this post live. The Warcraft Retrospective Part 1: Drums of War [Gametrailers] More »
Xbox Originals: Destroy All Humans And Intellivision Reborn
2:20AM Mike Fahey | This month sees the largest addition to the Xbox Originals program for the Xbox 360 ever, with a more than 61 games hitting the service on September 15th. Of course all but one of those games is part of Crave’s Intellivision Reborn compilation – which incidentally failed to spark a rebirth of the Intellivision – but if we’re going to get technical about things than none of those even count, having not originally appeared on the Xbox. So, a whole slew of Intellivision Games of dubious quality, and one excellent alien invasion title in THQ’s Destroy All Humans, a game that received the coveted Fahey award for Best Use Of Zim in a Non-Zim role. Thanks to Mustapha for pointing out the new additions. More »
Early Advergames, part III
2:00AM Ian Bogost | Here’s another example of weird early advergames from my collection. These aren’t rare like the last ones I mentioned, but they offer an interesting historical case for other reasons. Remember the Kool-Aid Man character and ad campaign from the 70s and 80s? Oh, Yeeeaaahh. By the early 80s, General Foods had started spreading the character beyond their own advertising, first into comic books. In 1983, Mattel’s M-Network software division created videogame versions of Kool-Aid Man for the Atari 2600 and Intellivision. This was a more complex process than the Johnson & Johnson and Purina games I mentioned earlier. More »
