Hand-Drawn Strategy Guides Are Works Of Art
To celebrate the original Ninja Gaiden’s 30th birthday, Philip Summers has created his own 20-page strategy guide for…
Collector Offers To Pay $100,000 For Original Contra Box Art
While video game collecting is a popular hobby, video game art collecting is a more rarefied avocation. That’s probably…
The Live-Action Contra Movie And TV Series Will Be Released Worldwide
A few years back, an official Contra mobile game was released in China. Konami isn’t stopping there, and teaming up…
10 Awesome Uses Of The Konami Code
Today is the 31st birthday of the Konami Code. The memorable cheat first appeared in 1986's Gradius and has been a…
Neca Figures Really Capture Contra's Good Side
Figure maker Neca has been doing great things with their video game appearance line over the past couple of years.…
There’s a new Contra game! According to 4Gamer, it’s a side-scrolling-shooter for iOS and Android and aimed at the…
Teenagers Try To Play Contra, Fail Spectacularly
Watching today’s teenagers fumbling around with a game that was second nature to gamers nearly three decades ago is…
Vietnam Contra Game Is A Huge Bummer
Aliens! You can always feel good about killing aliens! Too bad imaginary Contra clone Hanoi Strike is set duringthe…
Highlight Reel: It's Raining ATVs
We've rounded up some of the best highlights from the past two days in the gaming world and put them all together…
Metroid sneakers
Custom Metroid sneakers made as a commission by Shannon Kordek, who has also made these Portal and Contra sneakers:
NES Classics, Turned Into Digital Origami
Digital artist Steph Caskenette picked a couple of iconic NES moments from games like the Castlevania, Contra or Metroid…
Guy Proposed By Modding Contra, But She Had To Finish It First. Ouch.
Veteran gamer EquinnoxX documented how he modified an old Contra cartridge with a proposal message to his girlfriend at…
For some reason, dinosaurs wearing high-fashion hats slide across the screen if you enter the Konami Code on the Britis…
Contra Is Coming To iOS, And It's Changed
Konami's classic run-and-gunner is hitting iOS next Thursday, but it's not Contra as we know it. This is Contra…
Classic Video Games With Real-Life Backdrops Are Delightful
Video games from the 8-bit and 16-bit era mixed with real life environments look awesome, and it's a technique that…
The Best NES Game Endings
Video game endings back in the 80s and the early 90s were never really all that complicated. A short animation or a few…
What If The NES Games Of The 1980s Were Released In 2013?
We often look back fondly on the games of yesterday, especially when it comes to the purity of their design. In the…
Happy Birthday, Konami Code
This week in 1986, the release of Gradius ushered in the era of the Konami Code, a series of button presses that would…
Japanese Video Games Where You Can Play As A Badass American
The influence of American action movies in Japan has been huge. Shortly after the success of all the 1980s Hollywood…