• Here's how Nintendo announced the NES in North America almost 30 years ago

    Here's how Nintendo announced the NES in North America almost 30 years ago
    According to market research commissioned by Nintendo, the children of 1985 — the 37- to 41-year-olds of today — wanted the newfangled Nintendo Entertainment System mainly for the robot game-playing companion it included. The original news release described the NES as "a product that has the Japanese in a frenzy and is the answer to every video game enthusiast's dream." The tidbit about the R.O.B. was among marketing material Nintendo was sending out to news agencies in the early par
  • Xbox marks the spot: check out this Rise of the Tomb Raider launch trailer

    Xbox marks the spot: check out this Rise of the Tomb Raider launch trailer
    Halo 5: Guardians just released this past Tuesday, but Microsoft’s other big Xbox-exclusive (at least through 2015), Rise of the Tomb Raider , is out in less than two weeks. To celebrate, as is by now a tradition, the game has received a launch trailer, and it shows off plenty of tomb raiding and daring escapes, as well as a familiar face. “When I was young, it was just my father and I,” Lara Croft narrates with infuriatingly incorrect grammar. “In his last years he was o

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