Archive: november 16, 2008

Saving Our Past: the UK Video Game Archive [History Is Fun]

Saving Our Past: the UK Video Game Archive [History Is Fun] I'm an archive junkie — I consider it a side-effect of my profession, since we spend half our lives in temperature-controlled buildings with lots of old stuff. So I watch the growth of the video game archives across the globe with no small measure of excitement — not only does my little historian heart go pitter-patter at the fact that people are being so proactive in figuring out how to preserve our beloved medium for future generations, but it means a couple more places to poke my head in when I have a good excuse. The recent announcement of the UK National Video Game Archive ha...

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Tags: Archives, Culture, History is fun, Preservation, Uk, Uk national video game archive

Oct 2 UK's first videogame archive launches: Games are kind of a big deal

Jun 6 Hot Zerg concept art: Well, I certainly fapped

Apr 2 MTV Multiplayer announces gamimg's greatest aquatic animal, no surprises

Nov 24 Rock Band and Eye Toy protypes donated to National Videogames Archive

Dec 25 The Memory Card .49: Saving Santa

Nov 22 On the LOC Preserving Virtual Worlds Project [History Is Fun!]

Dec 18 Take pictures of your sweet Nuts & Bolts vehicle, become a part of Banjo history

Apr 30 Rubik's World coming to Wii and Nintendo DS

Mar 24 Puzzle Quest: the saving grace of Infinite Interactive?

Nov 5 New Space Harrier Coming (If We All Buy Thunderforce VI) [Sega]

Oct 18 Real Heroes: Firefighter video shows gameplay, also fire

Mar 20 Ubisoft acquires Tom Clancy's name and soul for videogames, related books, more

Jan 7 A brief and bloody history of Aliens videogames

Mar 22 The most important vote you will cast all year (what's an 'Obama?')

Jun 26 The Definitive List Of Video Game Comics [Comics]

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