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Veteran British actor Robin Sachs, perhaps best-known to the masses for his role as Ethan Rayne in the Buffy TV series, has passed away suddenly at the age of 61. Details on the nature of his death are yet to be made public. Sachs may be better known to you guys, though, as the v
FlameofWesternesse has made this terrific short film, which catalogues some of the memorials placed throughout Azeroth in honour of World of Warcraft players who have passed away during the game's tenure. Maybe you've seen them and wondered what they were for, maybe like me you'v
Sol Yurick, the writer whose 1965 novel "The Warriors" was adapted into a film 14 years later—which then became one of the best adapted works ever in video gaming—died this weekend. He was 88. Yurick's work itself was a loose adaptation of a story told 2,300 years before: Anabasi
Oscar nominated actor Michael Clarke Duncan passed away earlier today. The 54 year-old died from complications from a heart attack he had earlier this summer. Duncan is best known for his roles in The Green Mile , Armageddon , and Talladega Nights —among many, many other films. T
Paul Steed, an artist whose video game career spanned design, publishing and even console development, died unexpectedly, according to The Jace Hall Show. Steed was perhaps best known for work on Wing Commander and Quake and also for controversies arising in his time ad id Softwa
In May of 2006, months before I started writing for Kotaku , my then girlfriend and I went to the pet store to buy her a kitten. There were cages filled with various mewling beasts, fluffy, bright-eyed animals eager to find a good home. And then there was Rande. I didn't like him
This has been a brutal year for many people's fondest childhood affections. First Star Wars visionary Ralph McQuarrie dies , then French comics legend Moebius passes away , and now we have the sad news that Maurice Sendak, the creator of children's stories such as Where the Wild
Last June, the brother-in-law of reader Taylor was tragically killed in action while serving in Afghanistan. He had been due in September to return home and join Taylor in getting tattoos. While he never made it back, Taylor decided to go ahead and get a tattoo done anyway, only
When I was four years old, my father took me out to a local electronics store and said we were buying a computer. OK, I thought, not really knowing why that was such a big deal. Twenty-seven years later, I now know it was one of the most significant days of my life. That day we b
Jack Tramiel, a Holocaust survivor and the tech visionary who founded the company that created the legendary Commodore 64 computer, died on Sunday at the age of 83, Forbes reports . We'll have more on Tramiel's great legacy later.
My father knew a guy who knew Bert Sugar. That's how I wound up working for Bert, as a high school intern and then in my first job as a professional reporter. He was my first editor, my first mentor, my first journalism role model. He passed away yesterday at age 75 . Back when I
Michael Kuehl, a programmer with Resistance developers Insomniac - and who had also worked at Infinity Ward and Electronic Arts - has tragically passed away at the age of 32. Kuehl was struck by a car while riding his motorcycle, and died from his injuries. Our thoughts go out to
A week ago Star Wars Galaxies closed down for good . Today, the MMO published its official "memory book," a whale of a tome at more than 200 megabytes in PDF form , recalling all of the worlds, races and principal events of the MMO's eight-year run. Remember the Sullustan, the It
One of the longest-running magazines about video games has just run out of credit. It's just been announced that GamePro magazine, which launched in 1988, will cease publication as a standalone entity next week on December 5. As first reported by IndustryGamers , both the magazin
Gary Garcia, who teamed with Jerry Buckner to perform the 1982 hit "Pac-Man Fever," a song synonymous with 1980s pop culture and America's early love affair with arcade gaming, died yesterday at his home in Englewood, Fla. He was 63. Composed as a parody of Ted Nugent's "Cat Scra
During the iPhone 4 leak, I somehow, through no real grift of my own, found myself in possession of Steve Job's phone number. It went directly to his desk phone. My first thought was, "Steve Jobs has a desk phone?" It seemed like the kind of phone number you hang on to, so I wrot
Former Microsoft Game Studios developer Steve Lacey, who had worked on titles like Crimson Skies and the Flight Simulator series, has been tragically killed when a drunk driver smashed into his car while trying to collide with another vehicle in an incident of "road rage". Lacey
It's a mechanic as old as games themselves: perform poorly and you lose a "life". Experimental Dutch title GlitchHiker went a little further, though: perform poorly and the whole game died. An entrant in the Dutch Global Game Jam 2011 earlier this year, GlitchHiker was tied to a
The original MMO set in a galaxy far, far away, Star Wars Galaxies , is ending its online existence this December , making way for Star Wars: The Old Republic . Contracts expire and so too must the occasional online community. Star Wars Galaxies designer Raph Koster, also notable