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That time Activision dishonorably discharged Call of Duty's star dev duo
10 Years Ago This Month: Jason West and Vince Zampella were marched out of Infinity Ward right into the eager arms of EA
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Are gamers scarier than biker gangs?
10 Years Ago This Month: South Australian attorney general compares the threats he receives while Activision Blizzard starts a new layoff tradition
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Rockstar Spouse and the slow change of culture
10 Years Ago This Month: Red Dead Redemption and its sequel both had crunch controversies, but the studio's reactions show some change in thinking
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Did "Fewer, Bigger, Better" actually work?
10 Years Ago This Month: Major publishers have been narrowing their release slates for years, but has it produced the intended results?
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Modern Warfare. Modern Warfare never changes.
10 Years Ago This Month: No Russian turns the mass shooting into mass market entertainment and Nokia buries the N-Gage for good
Opinion
That time David Cage asked fans to stone Fox News
10 Years Ago This Month: The industry casually cultivates poor fan behavior, the global economic crisis strikes back, and physical media is a burning platform
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Disney, Marvel, and a decade of missed opportunity
10 Years Ago This Month: Media giant planned to make super hero games internally, then spent years dismantling its own studios
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Activision and Midway show you can't spell 'layoffs' without 'ffs'
10 Years Ago This Month: Fallout from the 2008 global economic crisis continues as companies cope differently with sliding sales
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Steam works wonders for the retail PC market
10 Years Ago This Month: Valve buddies up with GameStop, BioWare talks industry maturity, and the expensive peripheral trend cools off
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Missed Kinect-tions - E3 in the time of motion controls
10 Years Ago This Month: Microsoft unveils Project Natal, Sony debuts the Move controller, and optimism runs unchecked
Opinion
What does "additional polish" mean?
10 Years Ago This Month: Red Dead Redemption home stretch shows a disconnect between press and creative process
Opinion
Making piracy and pre-owned games problems of the past
10 Years Ago This Month: Gaming execs kill two birds with one server-based stone, while Konami insists Six Days in Fallujah has no message
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Digital distribution: A diagnosis for disruption
10 Years Ago This Month: Physical media falls out of favor, on-demand streaming becomes a thing, and the economy still drags
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Did EA beat Nintendo at its own game?
10 Years Ago This Month: A closer look at John Riccitiello's bold claim that EA would rival Nintendo's quality of software on the Wii, and a breakdown of a post-layoff pep talk
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Sony: Home of the Whopper
10 Years Ago This Month: Kaz Hirai discovers heretofore unexplored levels of spin in promoting the PS3 as the global economic meltdown ripples through the industry
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Video games and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Christmas
10 Years Ago This Month: The global economic downturn leads to a holiday season full of closures, layoffs, bankruptcies, and all-around bummers
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DLC doubts and digital distress
10 Years Ago This Month: Epic and Rockstar ponder their digital futures as Media Molecule reckons with its own online woes
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EA has killed, pledges to kill again
10 Years Ago This Month: EA CEO John Riccitiello gets into the spooky spirit of the season by promising the publisher would be an unstoppable game-cancelling machine
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end
10 Years Ago This Month: Microsoft announces Ensemble's closing time months before it wraps development on Halo Wars
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Making the piracy problem worse
10 Years Ago This Month: Some publishers look at the recording industry's disastrous reaction to file-sharing and basically copy it
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When's the right time to start building hype?
10 Years Ago This Month: Assassin's Creed was a massive success for Ubisoft, but it caused the publisher to re-think its marketing schedule
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Tomonobu Itagaki: From Team Ninja to Ronin
10 Years Ago This Month: Tecmo and its star developer hit the breaking point, Jack Thompson makes a bad situation worse, and Limbo of the Lost raises the bar for innovation in appropriation
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The ESA hits a low point
10 Years Ago This Month: Self-regulation helps fend off threatened legislation, but mismanagement of E3 has members jumping ship
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An industry boom leaves mid-size studios behind
10 Years Ago This Month: A swath of studio closures suggests how significantly the HD era upended the status quo
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Optimism at Atari?
10 Years Ago This Month: With a high-profile hire, a new vision, and an anticipated Alone in the Dark reboot, gaming's original titan was poised for a comeback