Total Recall

Dating back to around 1995, there are even hand-drawn maps

In case you could not tell this was not made by 1980s Nintendo

Widescale reporting of terrible working conditions at video game studios is a relatively recent thing, but crunch…

The early 90s was a magical time for arcade gaming, especially in Japan, so what better way to take a trip back in…

We tend to associate video game intros with lavish, pre-rendered cinematic sequences. Something to help kickstart…

Fabrice Heilig, a Nintendo collector from France, has been amassing stuff for so long that his house was running out…

Back before YouTube and Twitch and always online DRM, developers needed more effective ways of marketing than just…

On February 21, 1986, the original Legend of Zelda was released on the Famicom in Japan. It did OK, Nintendo made…

This 20-minute collection of B-roll footage, shot as part of a news report and only uploaded to YouTube this week,…

Yesterday marked the 20th anniversary of Jet Set Radio’s release on the Sega Dreamcast in the United States. This…

I have seen some impressive game collections in my time, but few that can match either the scale or presentation of…

Halo 3: ODST is out on Steam today, a fresh addition to the Master Chief Collection, letting a whole new generation…

Amateur games historian Eon Fafnir posted a clip of this 1990 local news story about LucasArts (then still known as…

When people hail the pioneering classics of the RTS genre, they go through a list of usual suspects. Games like Cytro…

The NBA’s decision to resume inside a “bubble” in Orlando means that the season is now officially over for some of…

Twenty years on from release I must acknowledge that, for a classic multiplayer game, Perfect Dark now suffers from…

These days we’re used to ports on weaker systems featuring a few trimmed edges, maybe some muddier textures, some…

My kids have started playing Wind Waker recently—for the record, my favourite game of all time—and it’s been a joy…

We all know about games that have had individual licensing issues, and games that have been changed for different…

I’ve been reading through the new book Japansoft: An Oral History recently, and while it’s full of very cool and…