November 8, 2012: Angry Birds gets the Star Wars treatment Today marks the one-year anniversary of Angry Birds Star Wars, which was first launched on Windows, iOS, and Android. Angry Birds Star Wars is the second crossover game for the franchise, the first being Angry Birds Rio, which is based on the Fox animated film Rio.
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Today in Gaming History: 11/7/13
1980: Atari releases Battlezone, a version which was made for the military On its surface, Battlezone was simply another old school, vector graphics, arcade game. It played out like target practice with players attempted to destroy tanks and flying saucers. Those players took the view from their own tanks, which did all the shooting and which they could…
News Byte: South Park: The Stick of Truth to be released March 2014
South Park: The Stick of Truth to be released March 2014 Ubisoft recently announced that South Park: The Stick of Truth, will be delayed…again…until March 2014. This comes after a previous announcement that the game would be released this December. Has the perpetual wait destroyed any hopes you have for this game, or do you…
Today in Gaming History: 11/6/13
November 2009: Sledgehammer Games founded While Sledgehammer Games might not be a household name, I’m willing to bet that for many of you, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is. But…wait. Infinity Ward developed MW3, right? Their name is on the box, right? Well if you look closely, you’ll see that Sledgehammer Games is too.
News Byte: New Killer Instinct Gets New Trailer
New Killer Instinct Gets New Trailer A new trailer for the fighting game Killer Instinct was recently unleashed, showing the addition of original KI fighter Orchid and teasing the probably addition of Spinal, another KI original. Are you excited for this exclusive Xbox One revamp? Or should Rare’s classic game have stayed a classic?
News Byte: Vanamo Online Game Museum Reaches Kickstarter Goal
Vanamo Online Game Museum Reaches Kickstarter Goal A new online archive of video game console images will soon see the light of day. Evan Amos is a photographer who has, for some time now, been taking high-quality photographs of video game consoles and freely distributing them on the web. In order to build upon his…
Today in Gaming History: 11/4/13
November 4, 2010: Kinect motion sensing input device launched Three years ago today, the Kinect was heralded into this world with promises of fun and fantastic motion-controller play. Code named “Project Natal,” the Kinect peripheral was released both with and separately from the Xbox 360, and can still be found on store shelves today. It utilizes…
Today in Gaming History: 11/3/13
November 3, 1962: Happy birthday Gabe Newell! The ubiquitous presence with the games industry of Valve CEO Gabe Newell wasn’t always so ubiquitous. Newell, however, got a very fortuitous start with Microsoft, where he worked on at least a few Windows releases. Newell raked in some serious cash at Microsoft, so is wasn’t as if he…
Today in Gaming History: 11/2/13
November 1993: LucasArts releases Sam and Max: Hit The Road When it comes to 1990s point-and-click adventure games, you’d be hard pressed to find a funnier game than Sam and Max: Hit the Road. (Okay, so maybe your definition of “funny” is different from mine…) The anthropomorphic dog Sam and his hyperkinetic rabbity thing sidekick Max were crime-fighting comic…
Today in Gaming History: 11/1/13
1988: Electronic Arts releases John Madden Football Did you know that the ever-popular Madden series of football games got its start as a computer game? I had no idea until history informed me that yes! The original John Madden Football was released 25 years ago for DOS, the Apple II, and the Commodore 64. (Cross “platform” nonetheless!) The game…
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