This eight pages/one print page InfoWorld article on "Microsoft's 13/thirteen worst missteps of all time ... the landmarks among 25 years of failures Redmond-style..."

Blue's News shared an Indie Retro News article on "Dune 2/II - History and Remakes".

Reddit shared a big image chart showing a Redditor's scraped database of 24,000 videogames to determine percentages

GameTrailers (GT) has a bunch of retrospective episodes on various video games.

This seven/7 pages OCModShop article looks into the past and the current Windows versions -- "Today Microsoft launched its latest version of its iconic Operating System (OS): Windows 8. There have been many version of Windows over the years, and one can't help but wonder what justifies this version number. Microsoft and other technology companies have over-written and re-named their product history before, so we take a good hard look at all the previous operating systems to see if the numbers add up.

Dorkly shares several funny Facebook images on an attempt in "Recapturing the Diablo Magic".

OSNews shares a MSDN blog showing "Creating the Windows 8 User Experience" and a brief history of the Windows user interfaces

From internet relay chat (IRC) earlier:

1:50PM [Mousey] http://informationweek.com/thebrainyard/news/
social_networking_consumer/231500371/you-know-youre-from-it-in-1990s-if-

VideoSift shares Imagine Games Network (IGN)'s YouTube video showing "Diablo In 5 Minutes [Series Recap] - Diablo, Diablo II & Diablo III" -- "With Diablo III on the horizon, we thought we'd take a quick look back at the series and get you caught up on the story so far. Watch the video, relive some good memories of adventures past and get ready for Diablo III! ..."

In Gloom Pouet BBS thread mentioned his blog on "the state of the demoscene: 1991 - 2011". It has a lot of details like graphs.

Also, Marq mentioned his Demoscene Research -- "scientific material concerning the demo culture. Demoscene Research is a collection of scientific material concerning the demo culture, also known as the scene. Major part of the page is an extensive bibliography of demo-related books, theses, articles and online material. We also maintain a list of researchers who have studied the scene. News and demo-related discussions are disseminated in the blog on the front page. There is also a related newsgroup, Demo Research, where we post the most important news so that you can read and discuss them by email..."

GameTrailers have two long retrospectives on Mortal Kombat (25 minutes and 4

TidBITS mention The Restart Page shows "a tribute to the most significant operating system (OSes) ..." and "Free unlimited rebooting experience from vintage operating systems."

Blizzard has a eleven minutes has an "extended Diablo retrospective -- This Diablo retrospective was a labor of blood, sweat, and hellfire...

Spike has an one hour, 25 minutes, and 12 seconds video of a recently aired video game awards episode -- "The 2011 Video Game Awards (VGA), hosted by Zachary Levi (Chuck Bartowski), is the year's biggest night in gaming. Featuring world premiere trailers, tons of celebrities and a performance..."

OSNews shares InfoWorld's test/quiz/exam(ination) on Windows Intelligence Quotient (IQ) -- "With a new version of Windows just around the corner -- well, maybe a long corner -- it's time to dust off those gray cells and see how much you really know about the inner workings of the current versions of everyone's favorite whipping post.

DeltaGamer has a nine pages article on "The History of Battlefield" games before its series until the latest one (Battlefield 3).

GamerSpawn made a 45 minutes YouTube video

Neatorama shares a funny one minute and 25 seconds YouTube video showing "If Computer Problems Were Real" ...