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Rest in peace, Bobby Prince. For anyone who grew up playing first-person shooters in the ‘90s (and, later, ports to consoles), Bobby Prince defined a generation. My absolute favorite track out of all his fantastic work is Doom E2M6, “Sinister.” youtu.be/q7MGbUYslrU?...
We've got a big one today. Almost 20 years after Maxis released Spore, we talked to eight people -- including Will Wright -- about the studio's big experiment.
Crazy deal for the best comic strip of all-time.
Shut up.
Sit down
And go fucking play south of midnight right now and I'm not asking
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This was part of my motivation to write books about gaming history. Most YouTube “retrospectives” consist of personal ‘member berries, not dev stories. Our 24 ‘Til Launch series at @shacknews.com is one way to spark that discourse. youtu.be/l5Rj8M6FRYU?...
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Digging through old gaming stuff and found some gems. Here’s one. More later.
Happy 30th birthday, #Quake! If you haven’t yet, read the #longread about the game’s creation FOR FREE @shacknews.com (based on interviews with the dev team), or buy it on Kindle or in paperback.
*Shacknews: www.shacknews.com/article/1011...
*Paperback/Kindle: www.amazon.com/dp/B07VFBJ8GX
There's a lot more writing on South of Midnight I intend to do in the future (yeah that's a tease) but my review I wrote last year is some of my strongest work I think www.pcmag.com/reviews/sout...
A wild bet in development for the better part of a decade, Spore reached for the stars — and, at times, got there. We recently spoke to eight team members, including chief designer Will Wright, to loo...
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South of Midnight is a fun and charming action-adventure game that features a beautiful, unique, and tear-jerking world steeped in Southern US folklore.
Based on interviews with the developers, Rocket Jump explores the making of the Quake franchise, the culture that simultaneously shaped and fractured creator id Software, and other developers whose cr...
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A federal holiday, Juneteenth commemorates the effective end of slavery in the United States when news of the Emancip...
