What Does Microsoft's Deal With Activision Mean for Sony, and for You?
The $69 billion deal may change the video game industry forever. Here's what it means for Microsoft, Activision, Sony, and gamers.
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The $69 billion deal may change the video game industry forever. Here's what it means for Microsoft, Activision, Sony, and gamers.
A timeline of Mortal Kombat ripoffs from the 1990s NetherRealm’s winning formula kicked off a gold rush that never panned out Graphic: James Bareham/Polygon did. In a five-year span, video gamers in arcades and their homes were overrun by fighting games that followed the same format: battles to the death, often organized by some supernatural being; a sinister announcing voice commanding players to execute a helpless opponent; gratuitously brutal finishers that seemed designed to provoke outrage and controversy, and secret moves with inside-joke meanings. Here is a timeline of nine unapolog...