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This Atari Retrospective Sets A New Standard For Game Anthologies
Yesterday in a Twitter thread, the gaming historian Frank Cifaldi said this about the work done by his organisation, the Video Game History Foundation: “We all know where the ROMs are hiding online. We don’t need games, we need CONTEXT to tell stories.” It helped me realise why I think Digital Eclipse’s new compilation of…
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10 Horror Games Worse Than The Movies They’re Based On
I love to catalogue things. I’m a scrapbooker, a flower presser, and I need to log every movie I watch on Letterboxd or I’ll cease breathing. My desire to collect could be pathological, but I often wish I could capture all the games I play in the same way. Some games I want to remember…
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A Group Of Aussie Scientists Have Created A Lab-Grown Gamer Brain That Plays Pong
No, you didn’t accidentally click on the webpage of our sister site, The Onion. A scientist really grew a brain in a lab and, unfortunately, it’s a gamer.
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Stadia’s Exhibit Of Historic Gaming Blunders Is Now On eBay
Outside of the 2019 Game Developers Conference, before anyone had ever heard the phrase “Google Stadia,” sat a small display outlining the history of gaming. Dates and bullet points marked some of the major events, and on three pedestals sat a few of the industry’s most notorious flops: Atari’s E.T., Nintendo’s Power Glove, and Sega’s…