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The world's largest video game show has a rich history of unforgettable moments, including oddball press conferences, monumental product and game debuts, and spectacular failures. These are our favorites.

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...

Interestingly, the trading buzz first sparked on Reddit on a forum called r/WallStreetBets. On Tuesday, January 26 the shares were boosted by Tesla CEO Musk, who tweeted “Gamestonk!!” along with a link to Reddits WallStreetBets stock trading discussion group, where he is popular as “Papa Musk”. For the unversed, “stonks” is a tongue-in-cheek term for stocks widely used on social media. Now, Discord has banned the Reddit forum over “hate speech” and it has...