On February 1, 1884, the very first part of what would become the most famous dictionary in history was published. It was called a fascicle essentially a small, thin volume covering words from A to ...

“They didn’t believe in CD-ROM at all”: One Hardware Choice Ripped the First Final Fantasy from Nintendo and Crowned Sony Instead Due to a stubborn hardware belief, Nintendo couldn't surface the first ...

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These days, very few of us use optical media on the regular. If we do, it’s generally with a slot-loading console or car stereo, or an old-school tray-loader in a desktop or laptop. This has been the ...

Why I Love is a series of guest editorials on GamesIndustry.biz intended to showcase the ways in which game developers appreciate each other's work. This entry was contributed by Christopher Mathes, ...

In the innocent days of the early 90s the future of personal computing still seemed to be wide open, with pundits making various statements regarding tis potential trajectories. To many, the internet ...

I've encountered a weird error when trying to use the genai runtime on my setup. I know that my setup is unconventional to say the least and that it may not be ...

In 1994, multimedia discs—from encyclopedias to magazines—flooded the market, and felt like the future. It was fun while it lasted. At the time, it was the CD-ROM that had captured the imagination of ...