Talk of urinals and deodorant ads in games got me wondering how long people have been talking about in-game ads. I found some chatter from 1995. The era of “Cool Spot”, the 7Up video game and other in-game ad dreams. More »
We’ve been writing about Final Fantasy this week, so how about we study how people used to write about this huge franchise. Like back in 1990, when the first game was coming to America. How did people/Nintendo explain it? More »
Before they were a part of Electronic Arts and bringing Dragon Age: Origins to the masses, BioWare was small and scrappy. And one of their founders walked around the office barefoot. More »
Inspired by Crecente’s posts about Epic Mickey I went digging for some older Disney stories. That brought me to E3 2001 stories, and that brought me to paragraphs about how awesome the GameCube debut line-up was at that show. More »
The PlayStation 3 may be expanding to 250GB in the United States next month, but a mere dozen years ago Nintendo was working on its own storage expansion. A whole 64MB more storage capacity was coming. With Zelda. More »
There’s no room for you in the PSPgo, UMD. But, yes, Sony used to say you were awesome. That started six years ago. More »
