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Back to SearchDeus Ex: How the Immersive Sim Predicted Our Transhumanist Future
Episode 11197
The Deus Ex franchise did not just iterate on a genre; it re-engineered how player choice works inside digital architecture. This episode traces the …
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Street Fighter: From 1987 Arcade Cabinet to Esports and EVO Moment 37
Episode 11196
Street Fighter II generated over $10 billion in inflation-adjusted revenue, and its publisher still shuffled boss character names to avoid a likeness…
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Shadow of the Colossus: Design by Subtraction on the PlayStation 2
Episode 11195
You slay a giant to save a girl, and instead of a fanfare you get wind and mournful strings. This episode examines Shadow of the Colossus, the 2005 P…
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Sega's History: From Hawaiian Slot Machines to Sonic and Beyond
Episode 11194
Sega is not a Japanese word. It stands for Service Games, a company that began in Honolulu in the 1940s supplying slot machines to US military bases …
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RuneScape at 25: Bots, Black Markets, and Player Democracy
Episode 11193
In January 2001, brothers Andrew and Paul Gower launched a browser game from their family home in Nottingham, England. By 2026 the franchise had gene…
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Roblox: From Physics Sandbox to Regulated Digital Nation
Episode 11192
In 2020, roughly half of all children under 16 in the US were logging into a single virtual space. This episode traces Roblox from its 2004 origins a…
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Roberta Williams: Mystery House, King's Quest, and Sierra's Rise
Episode 11191
In 1980, Roberta Williams was packing floppy disks into Ziploc bags at her kitchen table and answering the phone to give players hints. Fifteen years…
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Richard Garriott: Lord British, Ultima, and Buying a Ticket to Space
Episode 11190
Who owns a Soviet rover sitting on the moon, smuggled the ashes of Star Trek's Scotty onto the International Space Station, and coined the word avata…
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EVE Online: The Space Game That Became a Real Economy and Government
Episode 11189
A 21-hour space battle that destroyed roughly $330,000 of real-world value. A corporate empire dismantled from the inside by a single director with t…
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Ralph Baer and the Brown Box: How the Home Video Game Was Born
Episode 11188
In August 1966, engineer Ralph H. Baer was waiting for a bus in New York City when an idea he had first pitched in 1951 came rushing back: let televi…
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