November 10, 1981: Twin Galaxies opens Thirty-two years ago today one of the nation’s most recognized arcades opened in Ottumwa, Iowa. The Twin Galaxies arcade was the brainchild of Iowa oil industry employee Walter Day. His love of video games began with Space Invaders and took off from there. While in between jobs, he decided…
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Today in Gaming History: 11/9/13
November 9, 1998: Loki Software founded If you’re a PC gamer who prefers to play your games in Linux, you may have Loki Software to thank for your endeavors. Founded 15 years ago, Loki Software was one of the first companies to port Windows games to Linux.
Today in Gaming History: 11/8/13
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.
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…
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