Author: Simon Parkin

Worms or bust: The story of Britain’s most tenacious indie games company (2016)

arstechnica.com

2025-12-302022-02-06 by Simon Parkin

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reader comments 53 with 43 posters participating Share this story By the end of the 1980s, the story of the video game industry had become a Homeric epic. There was the rise and fall of Atari, the American company that … Read more

‘Every message was copied to the police’

theguardian.com

2025-12-302021-09-22 by Simon Parkin

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The rain pattered lightly on the harbour of the Belgian port city of Ghent when, on 21 June 2021, a team of professional divers slipped below the surface into the emerald murk. The Brazilian tanker, heavy with fruit juice bound … Read more