Happy Doomsday!
20 years ago today, id Software unleashed Doom, and video gaming has never been the same since. Polygon has a good article on the significance of Doom, while Wired has a great interview with...
Author: Mike Knotts
Gamechanger – The Original Voodoo Chipset by 3Dfx Interactive
Often, timing is everything. In late 1996, the timing was perfect for 3Dfx Interactive, a developer of 3D video acceleration technology. As prices for EDO memory were crashing and id Software‘s Quake was becoming a massive hit...
Gamechanger – Defender Of The Crown
When Trip Hawkins founded Electronic Arts in 1982, he did so with a vision that a software company should borrow from the record industry for its business model. Bob and Phyllis Jacob, on the...
Gamechanger – Balance Of Power
Late 1983 through 1984 were a pivotal time for the computer and video game industry. The Great Video Game Crash seemed to have no end in sight. Atari, careening towards bankruptcy, was drastically slashing...
6 Months With Ouya
Released in late June 2013, the Ouya video game console was going copy the Apple App Store business model, tweak it slightly (try Apps for free for a limited time), be ‘Indie-Developer Friendly’, and...
Gamechanger – Bill Budge
December 31st, 1995, the last of Bill Watterson‘s Calvin & Hobbes cartoon strips ran, ending a 10-year run of brilliance and influence over a new-generation of cartoonists. Watterson left the industry he didn’t really...
Lego Cuusoo “Back To The Future” DeLorean
Lego began their Cuusoo program in 2008. Roughly translated from Japanese, Cuusoo means “wish”, and that’s kind of what Lego hopes to grant to some of their most ingenious fans. If you are unfamiliar,...
House of the Sun – the Mars-scape of Haleakala
Early in the morning we started the journey. It’s only 27 miles to the top, but the road, completed in 1935, is narrow and full of switchbacks. And bicyclists. And buses. And cars and...
