Category:2003

Twelve years and counting, RSD's engine creaks along in near total anonymity. Elsewhere the web 2.0 era begins to click into place and games like The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker begin to show a long slide into creative doldrums for the mainstream industry. The independent and New Game Journalism movements begin to take off, at around the same time that blogging becomes common. SNK Playmore produces its final King of Fighters game for the venerable Neo-Geo MVS hardware. Meanwhile a new generation of games like cly5m's Seiklus bring legitimacy to Mark Overmars' Game Maker, and the modern indie game movement begins to take form.