The gaming industry underwent a major metamorphosis during the 1990s. Radical advancements in technology took place that pushed the industry to new heights and into previously unexplored spaces. One of those spaces was the creation and cultivation of modding communities. Self-expressive and sometimes even a little rule-breaking, those ’90s communities of game modders sowed the first seeds of what earlier people might not have recognized as a garden of gaming’s future. They laid the foundations…
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When I first immersed myself in the world of video games, I never dreamed there might be one that could…
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I still have fond memories of the 1980s,during which video gaming was beginning to come into its own. The arcade…
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When I first played Alone in the Dark, I didn’t have a clue what to expect. It was 1992. The…
