The History of PC Game ... Packaging? [Pc Gaming] Interesting read over on 1up — the history of packaging trends in PC gaming. No, really. Remember the code wheels (I had one in Legacy of the Ancients and the Legend of Blacksilver, for C64). Remember Marath [..]
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The (admittedly incomplete) history of gaming in 4 minutes
An (almost) one-shot video chronicling the evolution of console gaming by design students from Germany may be incomplete (they acknowledge as much), but it's the clever presentation that makes it worth watching. The piece hits ma [..]
Kickstart a gaming history book, have dinner with Molyneux (and more) Rusel DeMaria's High Score: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games is one of the most seemingly ubiquitous volumes in the "canon" of writing about games -- you've definitely seen that cover before, right? Well, it's not as ubiquitous as we thought. It [..]
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WSJ Re-Draws Headshots To Reflect Financial Woes From The Business Sheet: Here at The Business Sheet, we're all about recycling images. But not so at the Wall Street Journal, where they've redrawn business leaders' headshots to reflect the bad news they're experiencing. No wonder they need to charge $2 a copy.
Headshot comparisons from the Columbia Journalism Review:
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Left 4 Dead 2 Gets Headshots-only Mode, Versus Changes [Valve]
Valve is "mutating" Left 4 Dead 2 with a new headshots-only campaign variation this week, as well as instituting some substantial changes to Jockey and the AI Director in the game's Versus mode. [L4D Blog] More »
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Kotaku
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Explore The History Of Panzer Dragoon [Videogame History] The Panzer Dragoon series is one of Sega's most successful yet most under-utilized, and in a way I am glad. While Sega's flagship sonic the Hedgehog series has been nearly beaten to death by their own hands, Panzer D [..]