Before John Romero became an epic game developer and all around awesome guy, he was a kid. Ă‚ “A very smart kid,” asĂ‚ Kotaku’s Stephen Totilo puts it. Ă‚ He was also a gamer who loved what he played and wasn’t afraid to let developers know it. Ă‚ InĂ‚ this letter from 1985, published yesterday by Kotaku, a young Romero […]
March 2012
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Robot War Tournament canceled
Jimmy Maher of the excellentĂ‚ Digital Antiquarian blog wrote today to let us know that his proposed Robot War Tournament, which he first announcedĂ‚ here, has been canceled due to lack of interest. Ă‚ From Jimmy’s email: “Unfortunately… I just don’t think we can muster the participation necessary to make a tournament that feels, well, like a real […]