One of the longest-running magazines about video games has just run out of credit. It’s just been announced that GamePro magazine, which launched in 1988, will cease publication as a standalone entity next week on December 5. Both the magazine and website are being shut down, with the following text running on GamePro.com as of today: More »
Gary Garcia, who teamed with Jerry Buckner to perform the 1982 hit “Pac-Man Fever”, a song synonymous with 1980s pop culture and America’s early love affair with arcade gaming, died yesterday at his home in Englewood, Fla. He was 63. More »
It’s a mechanic as old as games themselves: perform poorly and you lose a “life”. Experimental Dutch title GlitchHiker went a little further, though: perform poorly and the whole game died. More »
It’s been announced that a public monument will be built to honour Dungeons & Dragons pioneer Gary Gygax in a park in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. [GMF]
