Tag Archives: History
Talking Angela: An Accidental Misinformation Campaign
Games The early 2010s was an era of mobile-gaming greats, with such classics as “Where’s [...]
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, [...]
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) [...]