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What's in a Game? A Linguistic History of 'Videogame' | |
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| Time: 10:40 EST/15:40 GMT | News Source: GamesFirst | Posted By: Chris Hedlund | ||
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Here at Gamesfirst! we like to talk about games--interactive art, we’ll tell you, and the future of art and storytelling—a force more powerful and more frightening than its parent, the movie, or its grandparent, the stage—both terrifying in their own way, in their own time. But did you ever wonder where the word "videogame"came from? "Video" meets "game"--it sounds like a pretty straightforward etymology to get to the word that brings us all so much joy, but what we have here is a strange union between two ancient words who’s roots stretch across recorded time—and further, in fact, into the dark night of prerecorded time. | ||
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