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ESA has gone on record that they haven't cancelled E3 for 2024 & 2025, but it seems the venue has already been cancelled.

The question of content is paradoxical, in a way, in the digitalage. The blessing of the digital age is that you can make aninfinite number of perfect copies...

How Mortal Kombat invented the ESRB A moral panic that changed the video game industry Graphic: James Bareham/Polygon During a joint hearing before two Senate committees in 1993, Sen. Joe Lieberman called for a bulky TV to be wheeled in so he could show a video excerpt to illustrate a point. It was a brutal scene from Mortal Kombat — blood splattering from Sonia’s head before Kano rips out her heart. In a second clip, Sub-Zero finished Raiden by ripping his head off, spine still attached. ...

Which genre should your next PC game be in? by Simon Carless on 03/03/21 04:45:00 pm     The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company.   [The GameDiscoverCo game discovery newsletter is written by ‘how people find your game’ expert & ...

Packaging for the Asciiware Sphere 360 PlayStation controller (photo courtesy of Hock Wah Yeo) When Hock Wah Yeo was hired by the game publisher Velocity, the head of the company gave him an unusual order: “Scare me.” 1     Let’s say you go to the store and buy a video game. What does it look like? Chances are, it comes in a plastic box, roughly the size of a DVD case, and there’s a logo on the top that tells you what platform it’s for — Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo. It’s easy to...