LudoScience

History of videogames (biography)

Author(s) : Sébastien Pissavy
Editor : Editions Pix'n Love
Publication date : 04-22-2013
Language : french

The biography of Sébastien Pissavy, founder of the famous french gaming news website "jeuxvideo.com." The author tells us about the birth of this website and the company behind it, "l'Odyssée Interactive." It all began with the "ETJAV", the french videogames cheat codes encyclopedia, which was distributed to friends and through some magazines. Then came the ETAJV minitel service, alongside with the founding of a company that will later create a website featuring the same cheat codes, but also very popular online forums and an excellent news service that made it (and stills makes it) the most popular french gaming website available. A very interesting book, easy enough to read that you'll go through its 250 pages in a flash!