computer games

Just like the mockumentary Nothing So Strange what would happen if Bill Gates was murdered in 1999?

https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/soviet-victory-in-the-cold-war-cultural-change.419540/ - In this topic, much was devoted to a culture of peace where the USSR emerged a conqueror from the Cold War. Here I wanted to discuss a more specific topic - Role-playing Games. Two questions...

Most of my alternate history threads are about scenarios where the divergence from real history happens in the pre-digital era. This has to do with being born in the wrong decade. Floppy discs are all digital, and when copied correctly, are copied bit-for-bit. The first floppies were introduced...

Dagger of Ways The Shadowy World of an Unmade Reboot (A computer game popular culture timeline) - - - - Prologue ---- (...) "I often hear this misconception that we or the guys at Eidos wanted to milk the brand name dry, and the subsequent fallout from Dagger of Ways was our comeuppance...

I'm not necessarily interested in a scenario where Cyan Worlds reboots the series themselves, or some developer partnered with them will do the same. I'm just interested in how you'd do a reboot of the original series, a few years after its official conclusion in 2005. I think this series would...

It has been said that British indie developer Chris Sawyer, the brain behind the Transport Tycoon and Rollecoaster Tycoon series and the TT follow-up, Chris Sawyer's Locomotion, was one of the reasons why the "tycoon" subgenre of management games really took off in the 90s. Prior to that, it was...

Anybody heard of this old 90s DOS flight sim from Rowan Software ? http://www.mobygames.com/game/air-power-battle-in-the-skies It's basically a hard fantasy version of Crimson Skies. With dieselpunkish monarchies and whatnot (kind of like some of the older projects Krall has made for his...

Thief - highly acclaimed adventure game series created by Shiny Brass Studios, showing the hilarious exploits of a bumbling cleptomaniac. Gears of War - an original new take on WWII strategies : The first management game of a WWII arms factory. Become the ultimate war-time tycoon ! It gets...