Kotaku: Retrospective

Here's the First Dumbass Thing the Mainstream Media Said About Grand Theft Auto III

Owen Good — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:00:00 EDT

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Ten years ago today, Grand Theft Auto III released for the PlayStation 2. It became, in the words of Time "a national obsession." In the mainstream media, it has since served as the No. 1 scapegoat for the corruption of youth through violent video games. More »

A Reporter's Memories Of Factor 5

Stephen Totilo — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:00:00 EDT

The closing of Factor 5 today is sure to affect many developers and gamers. With the studio shuttered, I'd like to share my experiences with it as a gamer and reporter. More »

A Tribute to Corewar

Owen Good — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:00:00 EDT

There is no way in hell I could ever "play" it - my programming days ended with BASIC. But Corewar always intrigued me, because it was the closest thing to real-life Tron I could imagine. More »

The Evolution Of Chris Redfield

Mike Fahey — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:00:00 EDT

.html Let's take a look at how far Resident Evil 5's Chris Redfield has come since his video game debut in the original 1996 PlayStation game. More »

GameTap Remembers Sonic The Hedgehog's Better Days

Mike Fahey — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:00:00 EST

Did you know that Sonic the Hedgehog's boots were inspired by Michael Jackson? You will after watching all four parts of GameTap's exhaustive retrospective on everybody's favorite spiny blue mammal. More »

Resident Evil Retrospective: Part 2

Brian Crecente — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:00:00 EST

Part two of Gametrailer'ss retrospective of the Resident Evil franchise talks about the long, bumpy road to Resident Evil 2 and beyond. More »

Resident Evil Retrospective

Brian Crecente — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:40:00 EST

With the Resident Evil 5 preview embargo lifting today expect lots of funny tidbits about the game, and how it plays, to hit throughout the day. More »

A History of Copy Protection

Maggie Greene — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:30:00 EDT

There's a nice look back on various forms of copy protection and games. If you make it, they will pirate it - and it's an entertaining look back at some of the ways companies have tried to outsmart the piraters, sometimes somewhat successfully and sometimes not at all. But is there ever going to be an end in sight?: More »

Classical Gaming: A Roman Retrospective

Maggie Greene — Sun, 11 May 2008 17:30:00 EDT

Rock, Paper, Shotgun linked to this nice retrospective of Roman-themed games over the years, starting with Legionnaire (1982) and ending with Rome: Total War (2004). The series of musings includes wrap ups and discussion, strengths and weaknesses. I began my academic life as a classicist with a knack for lyric poetry — while I hopped ship to history (East Asian at that), I still have many reminders hanging around of those halcyon days spent with Horace and Livy. A nostalgic look back at how and why these classically-themed games have succeeded (or not) is a welcome reminder of many games I played as a youngster: More »

Perhaps The World's Only Kingpin Retrospective

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 05 May 2008 06:00:00 EDT

Ever raved to strangers about a game they've never heard of? I have! About Kingpin. Yeah, I don't know what it was about it...it was a good shooter, but there were better shooters, it was violent, but there were more violent games...something (probably the Cypress Hill - who did the soundtrack and some of the thug's voice-acting - connection) just clicked with me, and as a bored 19 year-old uni student I played the shit out of it. So you can see why I blew a good 10 minutes on the weekend reading this excellent retrospective on the game. Why's it excellent? Because long-winded look-backs on obscure, yet heart-warming old games are always excellent. More »

A Look Back At Jade Empire

fdemarco — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:00:00 EDT

The folks at Computer and Video Games recently interviewed Jade Empire's senior producer, Diarmid Clarke about the process of making the game, the ideas behind it and it's translation from the Xbox to the PC. I very much enjoyed Jade Empire and often a game with a very different look and feel over other games will attract my attention more than the latest, most awesome, deserted space wasteland shoot em up game. The gameplay mechanic may have been a titch stale, but the story, missions and beautiful surroundings more than made up for it in my opinion. More »

IGN's Castlevania Retrospective

fdemarco — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 13:00:05 EST

In honor of Castlevania's 20th anniversary, IGN has put together quite an extensive retrospective of the uber popular side scrolling, vampire slaying adventure. The 10 page history takes us from the early days of Castlevania's 8-bit glory on the NES, through it's long, rocky history on multiple platforms and leaves us with the authors hope's and dreams for Castlevanias of the future. This is quite a hefty and well written article, so if you're looking for some good weekend reading about the vampire franchise that refuses to die, this is the story for you. Flynn De Marco More »

The E3s That Were

brownlee — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:40:49 EDT

Miss E3? The stench of fan boy putrescence. The disco lights. The jiggly girls with contempt in their eyes and fake smiles carved into their waxy faces. Hey, who doesn't? So why not hope turn on the flux capacitor and take an 88mph drive through E3's of years past, thanks to this Games Radar summary of every E3... ever! More »