Art is so important in video games. See if you agree with this PlayStation top 5 of art direction examples… Style stands out. Sometimes embarrassingly so. See your teenage years. But get it right and you have aesthetic, design and sophistication. See no album cover, ever. Video games have itRead More →
Sega Model 2 arcade games were well regarded, but how did they survive conversion to home consoles? For every action an equal and opposite reaction. It might be true, perhaps, and it would certainly be true of Sega’s prickly attempts to port their arcade machines over to the Saturn. Oh,Read More →
You’ve probably seen mention of RTX Remix. But what is it? Over the past few months, RTX Remix has been linked to a succession of classic PC games. Half-Life 2, Portal, Tomb Raider, and others have been reported to be under revision by development teams using this modding platform, withRead More →
Can you really play old Pokémon games on your Nintendo Switch? Millions of trainers hold cherished memories of catching ’em all in those pixelated Kanto plains or battling rivals amidst Johto’s bustling cities. But in this age of Switch supremacy, how do you revisit these classic Pokémon adventures? While aRead More →
Recalling Snatcher, the memorable Mega CD point-and-click advenure from 1994, itself an update of the earlier MSX 2 title. A point-and-click adventure. Of all the genres bleating at the margins, I always found this one to be at the furthest reaches of my understanding. Just pointing and clicking and thenRead More →
John Bowe looks at some of the best games of 1997, including some of the top titles of the 90s. 1996 had been the best of gaming times and regardless of whichever manufacturer you favoured, everyone was having the best of it. The players most of all. Mario 64, VirtuaRead More →
Guess who’s back? Back again. Sega’s back, tell a friend. What do you mean that you didn’t think they’d ever actually gone away? Agreed, but it has been a largely pathetic couple of decades, barring the odd classic (insert personal choice here. For instance, Outrun 2). But the exciting thingRead More →
Incredibly, 2023 saw the 30th anniversary of FIFA International Soccer on 16-bit consoles. Most of us seem to have a long lived relationship with Electronic Arts, it appears to me. Before they became the uber-brand of today they were an uber-brand of yesteryear, outfitting their cartridges with extra size andRead More →
A server glitch that resulted in temporary closure of Super Mario Maker on Wii U and 3DS in December 2023 has left people wondering: what’s next? We’ve known for a while that online services for Nintendo’s retired platforms would be ending in 2024. But while it seemed that some serversRead More →
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