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360 Catches The Deadliest Catch

In all of the Metal Gear Solid 4 excitement yesterday, we missed out on what could be the most important game of the year. The Discovery Channel presents Deadliest Catch Alaskan Storm, a game for the Xbox 360 and PC that promises to bring the perilous world of the Bering Sea crab boat captain to your living room. Developed by Liquid Dragon Studios, DCAS is the brainchild of brothers Sig, Edgar, and Norman Hansen, who have been a big part of the Discovery Channel's hit show. The game touts 34,000 miles of the Bearing Sea coast recreated from the US Geological Survey, weather patterns based on authentic data, and some really big f***ing waves.
With waves over 40 feet high, "Deadliest Catch Alaskan Storm" features the best wave effects in a video game to date. In the words of Captain Sig Hansen, "It may not be life or death, but chills went up my spine the first time I saw the Northwestern sink in the game."
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8:40 AM on Wed Feb 27 2008
By Mike Fahey
30,222 views, 80 comments

Latest by StickyPurpleCat: I believe this is one of the tell-tale signs, along with LoZ: Wind Waker and Duke Nukem Forever. If they make Dirty Jobs into a successful video game I'm officially declaring the Apocalypse. more »

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Rise Of The Videogame Begins Tonight

Just a quick reminder for those of you graced with cable—and not forced to choose between apartment-contracted 'bargain' cable providers or pointing a satellite dish directly at a tree, praying for a fastidious woodpecker to come along. Tonight at 8pm eastern is the premiere of the Discovery Channel's five-part documentary, "The Rise of the Videogame." It explores, using former Kotaku guest editor Geoff Keighley's words, "a look at how the social and political climate shaped games and game designers in the 70s through present day." I can assure you it's much more interesting than it sounds, stuffed with game developers both famous and obscure. Tonight's show features the dark, misunderstood beginning of the video game phenomenon, when people struggled to understand the concept itself. If you won't watch it for you, watch it for sad, cable-less me.

Discovery's Rise of the Videogame Web Page [Discovery Channel]

9:30 AM on Wed Nov 21 2007
By Mike Fahey
3,271 views, 41 comments

Latest by cheeseboybeans: @Krondonian: at least our digital is freeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEE! more »

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Discovery Channel to Air 5 Hour Videogame Documentary

Today the Discovery Channel announced that it's going to air a five-hour prime time documentary entitled "Rise of the Videogame." It covers the entire history of the industry and has interviews with the likes of Ralph Baer, David Jaffe, Will Wright, Peter Molyneux and even some now-obscure names like Ken and Roberta Williams, the founders of Sierra Online. I should disclose that I wrote the treatment for this show and served as a producer on it alongside World of Wonder (the company behind Inside Deep Throat). As opposed to a standard "History Of" documentary, the series takes a look at how the social and political climate shaped games and game designers in the 70s through present day. The first episode will premiere on Wednesday, November 21 at 8 PM (ET/PT) with new episodes to follow every Wednesday night through December 19th. If you want more details on each episode, you can read the press release after the jump. More »

4:40 PM on Thu Nov 8 2007
By geoff
8,678 views, 58 comments

Latest by n/a: OK, whose got this torrented? more »

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Future Weapons Flogs Halo 3 Tonight

One of the main draws of the Halo franchise is futuristic weaponry, so it sorta makes sense that the Discovery Channel's Future Weapons show tie in with the third installment's impending launch. How exactly it will tie in remains to be seen. I'm hoping it isn't just old episodes with Halo 3 advertainment sprinkled liberally throughout. I suppose we'll find out tonight at 8PM Eastern.

Halo 3 Future Weapons Commercial [YouTube via The Xbox Domain]

12:00 PM on Mon Sep 17 2007
By Mike Fahey
5,231 views, 53 comments

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How Video Games Are Made, According to the Discovery Channel

I can hear your knees jerking from here, my little monkeys. More »
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The History of Video Games

Warning: this video is long. 2760 plus seconds long. But it's an excellent look at the History of Video Games done by Discovery Channel... consequently, the perfect Monday morning office time waster! The disclaimer here is that this is aimed primarily at non-gamers, so there's going to be a lot of little things that will probably cause your pedantic gamer's rage to set in and start spitting out bubbling blood. But it's worth it for that singing claymated Mario done by the California Raisins guys. More »

2:40 PM on Mon Apr 24 2006
By brownlee
281 views, 7 comments

Latest by Chilly Hollow: You might be able to see this on the Discovery Channel's website. They put some of their stuff up for free viewing there occasionally. And of course they may run this again on their channel. There's approximately 3 hours of tape more »