Curated category
Spike Video Game Award winners
- GameSpotGameSpot launched on the 1st of May, 1996, born out of a bet that the internet would change how people talked about video games forever.
- Game InformerGame Informer debuted in August 1991 not as a magazine but as an in-house newsletter, the kind of thing a retail chain prints to move merchandise.
- Joker (character)On the 25th of April 1940, a grinning figure stepped out of the pages of Batman #1 and into comics history. The Joker arrived not as a sidekick or a…
- WiiOn the 19th of November 2006, Nintendo launched a home console that came bundled with a controller shaped like a television remote.
- Rock BandRock Band arrived in 2007 with a proposition that had never quite been attempted at scale: four people in a living room, each holding a different plastic…
- Nintendo DSThe Nintendo DS launched in North America on the 21st of November, 2004 - a device its own maker described as an experimental "third pillar", neither…
- Dragon Age: OriginsDragon Age: Origins begins on the eve of the fifth Blight, a moment when the monstrous Darkspawn threaten to swarm the surface world for only the fifth time…
- Final Fantasy XIFinal Fantasy XI launched in Japan on the 16th of May 2002, asking players to share a single online world with strangers who spoke different languages and…
- Media MoleculeMedia Molecule is a British video game studio built on a paradox: a company that wanted to make world-class games with as few people as possible.
- Blizzard EntertainmentBlizzard Entertainment started life in February 1991 with three UCLA graduates, a borrowed $10,000 from a grandmother, and a business park office near the…