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Rift turns 5: Trion Worlds CEO reflects on massively multiplayer game’s success

Edit Venture Beat 17 May 2016
Online team strategy games like League of Legends and Dota 2 may dominate right now, and World of Warcraft may be at its lowest ebb since its debut a decade ago. Yet a number of massively multiplayer online role-playing games still find success. One of those is Rift, which recently celebrated its fifth birthday ... I dug it five years ago when I did a solo-player review for the now-defunct GamePro ... GamesBeat ... Scott Hartsman ... GamesBeat ... Above....

Western Union Ersal T20 Cup takes off of at RCL

Edit Arabnews 06 May 2016
Attached Files. . ID. . 1462529372353542700. Publication Date. . Friday, May 6, 2016. RIYADH. Forty teams confirmed their entries in the Western Union Ersal Twenty20 cricket tournament, organized by the Riyadh Cricket League, which took off at the RCL Complex. The teams are divided in the Super and Premier Divisions. Most of the matches on the first day tended to be one-sided ... Super Division ... GamePro beat Gujranwala by 41 Runs ... ....

The MADE, or the importance of games console history you can touch

Edit Kill Screen 28 Apr 2016
About 30 miles northeast of the Frank Gehry-designed campuses and complexes where competing cloud environments are designed, there’s an Oakland museum full of game cartridges. You can see the sign from the highway. The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (MADE) ... Its space is divided largely in two ... Most of the games and consoles were received by donation, the majority of those from the now-defunct GamePro magazine’s offices ... (1982) ... ....

Monopoly Family Fun Pack Review (XONE)

Edit About.com 31 Mar 2016
Buy Monopoly Family Fun Pack at Amazon.com. The Monopoly Family Fun Pack from Ubisoft is a bundle of Monopoly goodness that includes both the classic Monopoly we know and love (with customizable boards), along with the modern card game version of the game called Monopoly Deal ... Monopoly is almost always a good time, and the Monopoly Family Fun Pack is worth a lookGame Details. Publisher. UbisoftDeveloper. UbisoftESRB Rating ... Board GamePros....

Your Friendly Neighborhood Video-Game Museum

Edit The Atlantic 11 Mar 2016
Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic. OAKLAND, Calif.—It’s not hard to find monuments to technology in the Bay Area. Down in the valley, Google, Apple, and Facebook have each built their own cathedral-monastery, architectural showpieces that bound over the landscape ... (C.P.K..A.I.T.P. is now playable online.) When GamePro magazine went out of business in 2011, he inherited their library of games and their archive of games journalism ... * * * ... ....

The Art of Escape

Edit Kill Screen 02 Mar 2016
This article was funded with support from Longreads members. * * *. No one wore stripes that spring and summer in Leavenworth. Stripes were for rule breakers, and no one was breaking the rules. “Baseball As A Corrective” read the front page of the New York Times that May ... Just the opposite ... Ed wrote to say that “Every once in a while an old issue of Gamepro will float around and we will all reminisce about the games we used to play....

Why Pokémon still matters 20 years later

Edit Venture Beat 26 Feb 2016
We are now two decades removed from the start of the Pokémon fad, and I’m starting to think it is more than just a phase. Back in the late 1990s, it was difficult to understand why Pokémon caught on with so many people around the world ... Star Wars ... And when it came time to name the electric rat, the developers struggled to find something that would work in both English and Japanese, according to an interview in GamePro magazine....

Decades later, players are still unlocking secrets in classic Mortal Kombat

Edit Ars Technica 24 Feb 2016
Gamers of a certain age probably remember paging through dog-eared copies of GamePro and other monthly magazines to discover the numerous hidden characters and secrets embedded in the highly popular Mortal Kombat games. There's at least one Mortal Kombat secret that never made the pages of those magazines, however ... Read 3 remaining paragraphs . Comments ....

Decades later, players are still unlocking secrets in classic Mortal Kombat [US]

Edit Ars Technica 24 Feb 2016
Gamers of a certain age probably remember paging through dog-eared copies of GamePro and other monthly magazines to discover the numerous hidden characters and secrets embedded in the highly popular Mortal Kombat games. There's at least one Mortal Kombat secret that never made the pages of those magazines, however ... Read 1 remaining paragraphs . Comments ....

Is this the worst hockey video game ever made? (Video)

Edit Yahoo Daily News 29 Dec 2015
Last week, we looked at some of the best and worst hockey toys of all-time ... But this got us thinking. What was the worst hockey video game of all-time? ... “M.C ... oof ... GamePro praised the game's variety of options and trash talking voices, but criticized the music and the controls, elaborating that "Jerky player movements and slow reactions to the button presses can be frustrating and might cause you to spend too much time on defense." ... ____....

IDG and Google Partner to Offer 100% Viewable Advertising Globally (IDG - International Data Group ...

Edit Public Technologies 02 Nov 2015
(Source. IDG - International Data Group Inc). New York, NY - November 2, 2015 - IDG Communications, the world's largest technology media, data, and services company, today announced a new program offering 100% viewable ads, giving advertisers and marketers a powerful tool to enhance the value of their media spend ... Our global media brands include CIO®, Computerworld®, GamePro®, InfoWorld®, Macworld®, PCWorld®, TechHive® and Techworld®....

The Original Videogame Museum in California Will be Moving to New Home

Edit The Examiner 05 Oct 2015
Oakland, California - October 5, 2015 - The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (The MADE) is gearing up to move into its new home ... To this end, in its four year history, the MADE has worked to preserve and relaunch Habitat, the first graphical MMO for the Commodore 64, the long lost GamePro 1996 TV show, and has worked with the EFF to change copyright law around the preservation of old videogames ... In 2008 Mr ... Admission is free....

How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Helped Create The PC Industry

Edit Fast Company 22 Jul 2015
In April 1977, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak rented a booth at the formative industry conference for the personal computer, the First West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco. They were there to launch Apple's first breakthrough machine, the Apple II ... In 1982, Lore married tech media magnate Patrick McGovern, the founder of research firm IDC and publisher of Computerworld and InfoWorld (and, later, PC World, Macworld, and GamePro) ... ....
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