October 25, 1910: Happy Birthday William Higinbotham! If you don’t think it’s possible for the history of video games to date all the way back to 1910, think again. And if you don’t think that the history of video games is littered with controversy, then let’s say hello to William Higinbotham. If the name sounds…
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When Glitches Just Ruin It
The Last of Us is considered one of the “must play” games of 2013. It’s received praise upon praise for its story, mechanics, and style. Despite all the great reviews and such, we decided to rent it first. (Hey, there’s a lot of great games to spend a hard-earned $60 on these days!) When it…
Today in Gaming History: 10/24/2013
October 24, 2005: Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth released Written in 1926 and published in 1928, The Call of Cthulhu was a short story about a Kraken-like monster by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Since then the Cthulhu mythos has seen several variants in pop culture, and it tread a rocky path…
News Byte: End of Games for Windows Live Means Trouble for Batman Saves
News Byte: End of Games for Windows Live Means Trouble for Batman Saves If you’re a Games for Windows Live user who has Arkham Asylum or Arkham City saves, then you might want to start thinking about what you’re going to do when the service shuts down next summer. The Batman games are just a…
Today in Gaming History: 10/23/2013
October 1976: Warner buys Atari from Nolan Bushnell for $28 million dollars In 1972, Nolan Bushnell, an engineer from a California-based company called Ampex, and one his fellow engineers, Ted Dabney, founded Atari. Between 1972 and 1976, the early electronic game market rose quickly, giving rise to classic entertainments such as Pong and Breakout. Bushnell…
News Byte: Thumb Arcade Releases First Ever iOS Game Bundle
News Byte: Thumb Arcade releases first ever iOS game bundle Are you an iOS user who’s tired of seeing game bundles for every system but your own? We fret no more! Now available through Thumb Arcade is the first iOS gaming bundle! Click the link to check out for yourself and listen in for a…
Today in Gaming History: 10/22/2013
October 2011: SNK makes way for SNK Playmore Shin Nihon Kikaku. That’s the original name of the video game company SNK, which was established by Eikichi Kawasaki in Japan in 1978. It was created during a time when arcade games were beginning to boom and bloom. Success in Japan led the company to expand to…
News Byte: Oculus VR is Working on Ways to End “Simulator Sickness”
News Byte: Oculus VR is Working on Ways to End “Simulator Sickness” The virtual reality gaming headset Oculus Rift has been all over the new recently, and the train shows no time of stopping any time soon. But if you’re one of many who sffer from motion sickness, maybe you’re having second thoughts about the…
Today in Gaming History: 10/21/2013
October 21, 1992: The world meets Wario (by name) in Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins Though he had previously and namelessly been debuted some years before, the character we recognize today as Wario, famed antagonist to that ever-cheerful plumber Mario, was made famous in the Gameboy titled Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. …
News Byte: Jenova Chen and Emotional Games
News Byte: Jenova Chen and Emotional Games At the last week’s Gaming Insider conference, thatgamecompany‘s founder Jenova Chen had a lot to say about the possible future of games, and how part of it may lie in our own emotional needs. But are emotional games little more than a fad, or is there something more…
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