This Day in Gaming, July 12th
1990: Final Fantasy is released in North America for the NES today, nearly 3 years later than Japan. Among other changes to the game, spells are reduced to four-letter names, such as how "Thunder" became "LIT". And all this time we thought the wizards just liked using their infamous "CRUNK" attacks.
1999: Dynamix accepts submissions for TRIBES "Open Call" - a contest for fan-made missions and skins. The winners are included in the sequel TRIBES Extreme. Their prize: developers didn't call the game TRIBES Xtreme. Tribes Extreme was later cancelled.
2005: The Games in Design and Verification workshop (GDV 2005) kicks-off in Edinburgh, Scotland. Their goal is "to bring together researchers interested in the application of game theory to system design, analysis, and verification" - so it's basically QuakeCon for really smart, probably nice, possibly boring people.
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