The Original Island

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Original Xbox: The Console and the Games (Hardcover) $19.33 (was $43) See at Amazon Picture this: it's November 2001, and Microsoft has just entered the chat with the biggest, beefiest-looking video game console the world has ever seen. The original Xbox was the first console to ever feature a built-in hard drive and an Ethernet port for broadband internet, and it launches alongside the now-legendary first entry in the Halo franchise, Halo: Combat Evolved. It's been close to 25 years since this pivotal moment in gaming history, and if you remember it fondly, there's a way to revisit it: throug

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BioWare's Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate 2, some of the most critically acclaimed RPGs of all time, are reportedly being remade. According to PC Gamer, Dungeons & Dragons parent company Wizards of the Coast is specifically working on a Baldur's Gate 2 remake, but states that from what it's heard, a remake of the original game also sounds likely. Former BioWare developer and co-lead designer on Baldur's Gate 2 Kevin Martins is said to be involved with the project, having technically already been in the Wizards family as part of the team working on upcoming space-RPG Exodus over at Wizards