At 6.49pm on 4th September, 1999, the first post on Eurogamer was made. It was pretty functional. In typical socially awkward Brit fashion, we didn't think to introduce ourselves properly until five minutes later. (And we hadn't yet realised how ugly our name looked with a capital G in it.) But still, that is the official moment Eurogamer was born - and we also take it as the birth date for the company that was built around the site, originally known as Eurogamer Network, then Gamer Network, now part of the ReedPop family.
That means we're 20 years old on Wednesday this week, and we're going to have a few special posts to celebrate through the week - as well as the gilded reskin you're looking at right now.
1999 is a pretty good vintage. We share our birth year with such seminal classics as The Matrix, The Sopranos and The Backstreet Boys' deathless banger I Want It That Way. It was a decent year for video games, too: EverQuest, Driver, Ape Escape, Counter-Strike, System Shock 2, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, Quake 3 Arena, Shenmue and Gran Turismo 2. The aftershocks of some of those games are still being felt today.
from Eurogamer.net
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