Tag Archives: History

What’s a Wizard?

You’ve seen it before. Sometimes it’s during updates, sometimes one comes with a game, but [...]

A History of Gaming as Told by the Elder Scrolls Series

Elder Scrolls: Arena The first Elder Scrolls game set the stage: magic, the continent of [...]

The Three-headed Jack Hydra

If you had a CRT monitor and had other systems to hook up to it, [...]

Accidentally Breaking a Ship with Divide By Zero

The Ship It’s 1997, and computers are making many things easier and more efficient. Enter: [...]

Game Data is Getting Ridiculous

Why are game downloads so ridiculously huge? The first Doom game is famous for how [...]

First Computer ‘Bug’

Behold, a common moth. It died stuck in the newest Harvard Mark II after being [...]

Blizzard Entertainment’s 2012 Hack: An Example of How to Do It Right

In 2012, game developers were beginning to experiment with a principle known as “always on”. [...]

In Terms of Memory

The first Bit of Data   A bit is a single character in binary, and [...]

Attempts at Media Storage That Didn’t Get Big

CEDs: Like Vinyl for Video, but more expensive   The CED (or capacitance electronics disc) [...]