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How playing together has changed since 1999
Around the time Eurogamer launched, I was temping at an insurance office in Bournemouth, and I had a temping lunch brea…
With the indoor flash and the suburban dark visible through the occasional window, with the manic leer and sweat of Mountain-Dew-crazed Quake fans, it feels, like Weegee's pictures do, as if every night was Halloween. The games were such serious time hogs that many had the clock running in another corner so you didn't completely lose touch with the movement of the sun around our planet while playing. I once attended a Fan Fest panel on The Matrix Online, which was dying at the time, and there was this eerie moment when I realised that I was the only person in the room who didn't know everyone else.
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