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A Team Fortress 2 Tribute To Billy Mays

4:30AM Owen Good | This has been a week unlike any other for celebrity deaths. Billy Mays, the cheerful, if relentless pitchman who hawked such items as Oxiclean and Orange Glo, was found dead in his home today. More »

Retro Terrorism, part II

10:00AM Ian Bogost | Those of you read closely might have noticed that yesterday’s mention of the Bandai Airport Panic LCD Game included a coy “part I” in its title. That’s because I had another early videogame with airport terrorists up my sleeve. Activision gets the credit for being the first third-party developer, but Apollo followed shortly after, in 1981 (Imagic was also started in that year, by a second round of dissatisfied Atari developers). More »