Today marks the anniversary of a surprising study that discovered that the majority of net gamers are women. Read more in “This Day in Video Game History”, a chronology of notable business, film, game, and media events in and related to the video game industry on this day in history.
Today marks the anniversary of the publication of a study in support of the self-regulatory ESRB. Read it and more in “This Day in Video Game History”, a chronology of notable business, film, game, and media events in and related to the video game industry on this day in history.
Today marks the anniversary of the the beginning of the Senate hearings on video game violence that lead to the ESRB system. Read more in “This Day in Video Game History”, a chronology of notable business, film, game, and media events in and related to the video game industry on this day in history
Today marks the anniversary of the most important game releases in history, id Software’s Doom. Read about it and more in “This Day in Video Game History”, a chronology of notable business, film, game, and media events in and related to the video game industry on this day in history.
Today marks the anniversary of antitrust charges being leveled at Nintendo. Read about it and more in “This Day in Video Game History”, a chronology of notable business, film, game, and media events in and related to the video game industry on this day in history.
In the 80’s came the second generation of MMOs. It was a slow period for the development of MMO games since Internet wasn’t so common in the average home as it is today.. There were a few improvements with servers’ functionality, i.e. the speed was enhanced; but the real advances came in the 90’s.
The ’90s brought us the type of MMOs that we know today. Thus began the MMO revolution in the history of video games because they had new concepts that no other game at the time had.
Video gaming had humble beginnings. It wasn’t as high tech as it is today. Even MMOs were quite simple during their development stage, i.e. low-end graphics and a simple gameplay but those were the elements of success for later generations of MMOs.
Today marks the anniversary of the launch of the original Sony PlayStation and protests over the firing of Geff Gertsmann. Read more in “This Day in Video Game History”, a chronology of notable business, film, game, and media events in and related to the video game industry on this day in history.
Today marks the anniversary of the launch of the Xbox 360 in Europe and the Nintendo Wii in Japan. Read about these events and more in “This Day in Video Game History”, a chronology of notable business, film, game, and media events in and related to the video game industry on this day in history.
