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‘Father of videogames’ donates four decades of work to museum

This is pretty rad. Ralph Baer, creator of the first commercial videogame system, is giving his stuff to the Strong Museum of Play: Ralph Baer donated his collection of original diagrams, schematics, engineering notes and patents that show the scope of his work during the formative years of the burg

May 18, 2011, 2:35 pm

Attention NYC: We’re throwing a party for the BLIP festival on Thursday night.

Flashback: 1983 Nintendo Game & Watch ad

New Converse spot turns sneakers into Space Invaders

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Today on KS: We aggregate Metacritic scores in glorious Mario-related fashion

We all know Metacritic so we decided to aggregate them with the help of our friends at Nation. It’s a lovely visualization. Take a look.

Soviet-era videogames make us red with envy.

Last year, the blog A Dangerous Business published a series of photos and stories from an old Russian arcade with Soviet era games.  The story popped back up this week via Kotaku and it’s still amazing. Take a look at the old photos on Flickr.  The photo above: This was one of the first games we tri

Cheat Sheet 5/18: GagaVille, PlayStation Phone

-Microsoft replaces old Xboxs that don’t work with their firmware update. -GagaVille arrives. -“Very small percentage” of PlayStation Network subscribers cancel. -“PlayStation Phone” lands next week. That’s all! Image via.