Over at the IGDA Preservation SIG, Andrew Armstrong has put up a new weblog post with a full multimedia presentation regarding the Digital Game Canon, including audio and transcriptions from the Game Developers Conference lecture introducing 'gaming hall of fame' picks for an initial 10 games.

As explained: "At GDC 2007 the first Digital Game Canon event occurred, put on by Henry Lowood, head of the Game Preservation SIG, and with a panel consisting of him, Steve Meretzky, Christopher Grant, Matteo Bittanti and Warren Spector...These are the slides and audio track from the event, as well as a transcript of the audio. You can listen to the audio and watch the slides online (with some minor errors) too. You can find more on the Digital Game Canon project and included games at the IGDA wiki."

Also, Gamasutra has followed up with detailed histories of many of the games, including creator interview - specifically, of SpaceWar, of Zork, of Civilization, and of Star Raiders (Also, feel free to ping us if you want to help write the other ones for Gamasutra, since we've come to somewhat of an impasse.)

Hopefully, there will be a second Digital Game Canon ten (hopefully to include Pac-Man, as pictured?) at GDC 2008 - though I think that's still to be confirmed. In any case, the SIG folks such as Andrew Armstrong have compiled a list of historical articles which puts together a bunch of the other Gamasutra pieces we've run over the past few years documenting the history of the game biz.