On September 3rd, 2010, Brian Wood, lead designer in the Company of Heroes franchise, was killed in a car accident. Since today is the 2 year anniversary of the incident, I wanted to commemorate his passing by reminding all of us the contributions he made in the video game world. Though he contributed to games …
With the amount of spam that we get in our inboxes nowadays, I sure miss anti-spam pioneers like Jim Nitchals (see bio and game history here: Jim Nitchals Bio). He went face to face with the most notorious spammers, and came out unscathed. June 5th, 1998 was the date of his passing. He contributed to the …
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Daydreaming is usually a solitary activity. But Adam Adamowicz turned his daydreams into fantasy worlds that ensnared millions of video game enthusiasts.Mr. Adamowicz, who died on Feb. 9 at 43, was a concept artist whose paintings of exotic landscapes, monsters and elaborately costumed heroes and villains formed the visual foundation for two of the most popular single-player …
PARK RIDGE, IL — Steve Kordek, widely regarded as the man who transformed the pinball machine from a simple arcade game into a great American pastime, died on Feb. 19. He was 100. About 80 years ago, a young man who would become a coin-op legend wandered into a penny arcade machine company called Genco …
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