What hides in the high scores? The people who made the games!
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Double Feature: Tetris and Pinball
After years of waiting, two films are finally taking game history to the big screen. How do they measure up?
2022, The Losses
An ode to the lost game designers, artists, and executives who passed away in 2022.
Play History, Episode #3
Who gets to play? Why not everybody! Episode 3 of Play History.
The First Video Game Console, A New History
Fifty years after Magnavox released the Odyssey, what can we learn from its story? What is the true story?
Miyamoto’s Quote, Pac-Man, E3, and the Role of Hype Culture in Video Game History
How we expect games now is not how we expected them before the dawn of the modern hype cycle.
The Forgotten First GDC: Gametronics
A meeting of the minds for the video game industry lost to the dusts of history. Now it lives again.
Celebrating A Luminary: The Life of Jim Nitchals
One of the most important programmers of the 8 and 16 bit age. His story, and how games were changed because of him.
2021, The Losses
Here are five game industry figures who deserve to have their names ring in remembrance.
What to do about Steven Kent?
The Ultimate History of Video Games is twenty years old, and it's left a mess of a legacy.