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Mavis Beacon Ate My Brain!

You may be familiar with the classic Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing* series of software from Broderbund. Well, Sega’s sublime Typing of the Dead is like Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing... if Mavis Beacon was a flesh-eating zombie!! Any self-respecting software developer should be a decent typist. Now you can prove

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hardware

The Game Controller Family Tree

Remember when anything you could possibly imagine could be controlled with a single stick and a single button? Trace the evolution of human interaction in video gaming from 1980 to the present through this remarkable visual game controller family tree. This tree isn’t quite as complete as I would

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What Would Blanka Do?

Sometimes you just gotta ask yourself: What Would Blanka Do? “Eventually, my nickname at school became Blanka. When I got into real fights, I even tried using some of his moves. They never worked,” said Gutierrez. “I often ask myself, what would Blanka do? I even met my wife because

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