that actually happened
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That Time A ‘Gritty’ Tomb Raider Reboot Almost Sank The Franchise
11Tomb Raider has been in good hands for the last decade or so, thanks to the steady hand of Crystal Dynamics. Before they took over, though, the series had become a disaster, and Angel of Darkness was its trainwreck.
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That Time Team Fortress 2 And Borderlands Changed Art Styles Mid-Development
Video games change a lot between announcement and release, but most of that happens under the hood. What the game looks like is usually set in stone. But that’s not true of every video game, and it certainly wasn’t true for Borderlands and Team Fortress 2, games that looked very different by the time they…
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That Time Sega Killed The Dreamcast
Some people have always lived in a world where Sonic the Hedgehog shows up on PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo platforms, but it wasn’t always that way. In January 2001, the company announced it would stop making its own hardware and go third-party.
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That Time Microsoft Ran A Live Game Show On Xbox 360
Anyone recall Xbox Live Primetime, Microsoft’s push to do game shows on Xbox Live? No? That’s probably because 1 vs. 100, based on the television show of the same name, was the only one Microsoft ever produced.