Game pioneer Allan Alcorn sets his sights on new challenges, writes Laura Parker and Darryn King.
Allan Alcorn was just 24 when he designed the world's first popular video game in 1972. Fresh out of college and working for the then unknown video company Atari - as its second employee - his first task as a junior engineer was just meant to test his skills. The result was Pong, an electronic table-tennis game that paved the way for the modern video game.
It's important in life to maintain a broad palette when it comes to culture and the arts. Hideo Kojima agrees, as he continues to use video games like Death Stranding to introduce people to music and other elements they might not otherwise discover.
Mojang has partnered with Merlin Entertainments to build the world's first Minecraft theme park in the UK.
A three-episode live-action adaptation of the first two Yakuza video games will debut Tuesday, March 17 exclusively IGN. Each episode is about an hour long and will stream on IGN.com and IGN’s YouTube channel.
