This is Shareware Heroes, a new book that has behind the scenes tales from studios like id, Epic and Apogee as they blazed a free-to-try trail across the PC market in the 80s and 90s.

I'm not sure I was ready for this Kim Jong-un Easter egg in the revival of Apogee's classic shooter, Rise of the Triad.

Apogee has released the source code for their classic 1994 FPS, Blake Stone: Planet Strike. Here's Apogee's Terry Nagy: "When we were selecting games for the Throwback Pack, (...) I knew we had a golden opportunity to finally release the source code. Nice to know that those old 3.5″ floppies retain data for so long!" Read more