Nintendo designers on Game & Watch's history In honor of the new Game & Watch Ball reward available through Club Nintendo, the company released a translated Iwata Asks interview about Nintendo's first experiments with handheld games. The designers and engineers describe just how early the technology was -- [..]
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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 [..]
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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 [..]
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 [..]
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 [..]
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Watch gaming doc 'Second Skin' now, free
We've teased you with Second Skin before, but now you can watch the whole thing online for free. Word of warning: If you're a World of Warcraft player, or belong to any other obsessive MMO, the film doesn't paint a very flatter [..]