As part of a new initiative on IGN, we’ll be spending whole months exploring topics we find interesting in the world of video games – and we hope that you will, too!
The first of the “themed months”, April is focused on Urban Legends. We’ll be taking a weekly look at the bizarre, eerie, untold, and otherwise unexplained phenomena within the gaming community.
Today we posted this (mostly) complete history of the Nintendo Playstation, the famed collaboration between Nintendo and Sony that was though lost to time, but was recently rediscovered and auctioned as the most valuable piece of gaming history ever.
Earlier in the month, we took a look at how the Xbox Kinect found new life in the ghost hunting community, thanks to its unique infrared motion-detection software, and how the Playable Teaser for the now-canceled Silent Hill reboot was both a bizarre flash-in-the-pan phenomenon and long-lived community mystery that P.T. became an urban legend all its own.
And there’s more still to come! Next week, we’ll be taking a look at the bizarre story of Polybius – no, not the recent PSVR game, but the urban legend that it’s based on, where the US government attempted to weaponized arcade machines as mind control devices in the late 1980s.
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What are some of your favorite gaming-centric urban legends? Let us know in the comments, and stay tuned for more upcoming themed events, including explorations of game development and some of the biggest icons of the gaming community.
Source: IGN.com April is IGN's 'Urban Legends' Month