10 Years Ago This Month
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Everybody makes mistakes | 10 Years Ago This Month
The power of the cloud, second-screen gaming, and more promised futures that never came to pass
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Grand Theft Auto 5 and Rockstar's post-Apocalypse Now | 10 Years Ago This Month
It's time to reflect on the most recent GTA game, and (unrelatedly) whether we should be ashamed of our words and deeds
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Pure vision vs. player feedback | 10 Years Ago This Month
People trying to do something different have always struggled with the question of whether the customer is always right
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Change that tune | 10 Years Ago This Month
Future Unity CEO John Riccitiello decries money-focused game makers, we agree with an NRA lobbyist, and other unexpected occurrences
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"Microsoft had already loaded Sony's gun" | 10 Years Ago This Month
Xbox's strong lineup of next-gen games at E3 2013 was no match for Sony promising the same old, same old
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Have M-rated games grown their market share? | 10 Years Ago This Month
A decade after publishers bet on fewer, bigger, bloodier titles, does the industry depend on violent games like it used to?
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Microsoft hypes new games console, doesn't talk about games | 10 Years Ago This Month
Microsoft's big unveiling took an audience hungry for the future of games and force-fed them entertainment of the past
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Don't like always-online consoles? #DealWithIt | 10 Years Ago This Month
Reports of Microsoft's next system requiring a constant internet connection got the industry talking, fretting, screaming, and harassing
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Always-online SimCity burns to the ground | 10 Years Ago This Month
Everything goes wrong for EA's reboot, EA CEO John Riccitiello steps down, and the industry sends mixed messages on whether it wants women around
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PS4 reveal signals a new generation | 10 Years Ago This Month
Sony's big hardware unveiling gets positive reviews, live-service games hit a wall, and it's a good month for Bad Calls
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HR exec says it's on women to solve the industry's sexism problem | 10 Years Ago This Month
EA's chief talent officer saw a tidal wave of horrifying stories from women in games and decided the problem was women didn't want to sign up for that
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Violent games a part of the post-shooting pageant | 10 Years Ago This Month
In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, games and mental health proved handy distractions from gun control
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THQ's imminent demise becomes clear | 10 Years Ago This Month
Five years of futility caught up to the publisher as yet another bad quarter and a cash crunch paved a short path to bankruptcy
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The games industry can be a scary place | 10 Years Ago This Month
Let's revisit the headlines of October 2012, sorted by which subgenre of horror movies they most closely resemble
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Red flags a-plenty heading into Wii U's launch | 10 Years Ago This Month
Even with a year-long head start on the next-gen competition, Nintendo's Wii successor never really looked like a contender
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Everybody hates Zynga | 10 Years Ago This Month
The social gaming giant hits rock bottom, decides to set up camp and stay there for a while
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The industry catches Ouya fever | 10 Years Ago This Month
"A freight train plowed into the console games business on July 11th, forever changing the console games landscape..."
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Consoles cannot die in a way that matters | 10 Years Ago This Month
We poke fun at the people who proclaimed consoles dead a decade ago, but can we argue they were actually right?
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Curt Schilling's vanity project strikes out | 10 Years Ago This Month
38 Studios is a cautionary tale about the dangers of leadership with unshakable confidence
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The Erosion of Ownership | 10 Years Ago This Month
Reports of always-online next-gen systems and on-disc DLC raised questions about what consumers are actually getting when they buy a game
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Mass Effect 3's ending blows up | 10 Years Ago This Month
Fans disappointed by RPG's ending vow to Retake Mass Effect, BioWare lets them have it
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Crowdfunding becomes the gold rush du jour | 10 Years Ago This Month
Double Fine kicks off a revolution, PlayStation Vita hits shelves, and we discover the Crystal Ball Society
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The ESA's SOPA Opera | 10 Years Ago This Month
The industry was divided on a contentious piece of US legislation, clones got bemoaned, and consoles were (as usual) completely doomed
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BioWare plays the name game | 10 Years Ago This Month
EA tries to get the most out of the beloved studio behind… Command & Conquer?
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GameStop's head in the clouds | 10 Years Ago This Month
The retailer knew digital distribution was an existential threat and laid out its plan to get ahead of the problem
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