Web of Games

While the Internet would eventually bring computer-based telecommunications to the masses, by the late 1980s more tech-savvy individuals were already meeting new people and having all sorts of discussions ‘on-line’ – and in some cases had been for almost a decade. While most of them were adults, plenty of them were children, and some of those would become life-long friends.While the Internet would eventually bring computer-based telecommunications to the masses, by the late 1980s more tech-savvy individuals were already meeting new people and having all sorts of discussions ‘on-line’ – and in some cases had been for almost a decade. While most of them were adults, plenty of them were children, and some of those would become life-long friends.

Taneli Armanto is an unsung hero of mobile gaming. Meet the Finnish software engineer who developed ‘Snake’ for the late-’90s Nokia 6110 — launching a 00 billion industry

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How a group of nobodies came together to create the game that defined a genre.

The rise and fall of an MMO with limitless potential.

Fascinating insights about the story of a planet-wide ecological breakdown, and the war people are fighting in the middle of it.

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Using horror movie characters as a case study in (tabletop) game design.

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An interview with Sophie Wilson, who invented the ARM instruction set.

20 years later, Irrational Games co-founders Ken Levine and Jonathan Chey on the immersive sim's rollercoaster development.

In their poor, Communist country, Romania's computer curious built an underground industry.