Happy 24th Birthday, Streets of Rage 2!
It makes you feel old, doesn’t it, knowing that a game that you played in your youth is now 24 years old? In the...
Jak and Daxter: Naughty Dog’s First Foray into Dramatic Storytelling
At PSX this past weekend, three out of four of Naughty Dog’s biggest properties were showcased. The company is making a standalone expansion to...
Fighting Evil by Moonlight, Winning Love by Daylight: Persona 20th Anniversary
November marked Persona's 20th anniversary in the U.S. The legacy of its succession of sequels and origins are as bizarre as the plots in...
Games That Changed Our Lives #34: TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
The games of today simply don’t feature enough time travel. There, I said it. Maybe it’s a theme just that little bit too retro for...
Shining Light on Nintendo’s Forgotten RPG Series Golden Sun
Despite Nintendo’s long list of properties and genre explorations, they have very few RPGs under their belt. One of them, Golden Sun, hasn’t been...
Looking Back Over 25 Years of the Mana Series: The RPG Tree of Life
This month marks the 25th Anniversary of the Mana series, which began on weird terms. The first game launched for the Game Boy in...
Games That Changed Our Lives #33: Final Fantasy IX
I recall that, for one of my early birthdays, I told my mother that I wanted to rent the original PlayStation console from the...
Games That Changed Our Live #32: Heretic II
In 1998 Raven Software released what would be a genre-defining, revolutionary title, one that virtually no one has heard of nowadays except hardcore fanatics...
Games That Changed Our Lives #31: Fable II
My life revolved around playing games. Nothing could take that love from me – until high school, that was.
Games That Changed Our Lives #29: Pokémon Red & Blue
The mid-Nineties saw a huge leap in the video-gaming industry as 3D games and the consoles to play them on became available. This put...
Thousands of Amiga Games Now Available For Free In Your Browser
Have you ever heard of Archive.org, or the Internet Wayback Machine? Well, you've been missing out. A service that's been running for years, the...
Counting Stars: A Look Back Over 20 Years of Star Ocean
This month marks the 20th anniversary of the fantasy/space series, Star Ocean. The original game launched on the Super Famicom in Japan on 19...
Sega to Re-release Mini Version of Mega Drive
Following on the heels of Nintendo's NES mini announcement, Sega are set to capitalise upon one of their own classic consoles. A mini version...
Nintendo’s Classic Mini NES goes to the top of Amazon’s charts
Sony and Microsoft may have some stiff competition this coming Christmas. Nintendo's Classic Mini NES is already top of the bestsellers list on Amazon.co.uk.
Nintendo...
Games That Changed Our Lives #28: Guild Wars 2
I feel like there comes a point in every gamer's life where they'll try out an MMORPG for the first time and it will...
Games That Changed Our Lives #26: Hidden & Dangerous 2
Hidden & Dangerous 2 is probably a game you’ve never heard of.
I myself know only a handful of people who are even aware of...
Games That Changed Our Lives #24: The Batman “Arkham” Series
High above Arkham Asylum, a blackened sky looms behind a shawl of thick, grey clouds; each one lousy with smoke and dirt from Gotham's factories. Licks of lightening tear apart...
Games That Changed Our Lives #23: Grand Theft Auto (Part Two)
Not read Part One yet? Click here to read that first!
A new generation has begun. One where you no longer needed memory cards, multi-taps,...
Games That Changed Our Lives #23: Grand Theft Auto (Part One)
With the first title released in 1997, the Grand Theft Auto series began its (so far) 18-year journey as a top-down, 2D action title and...
British Company Attempt to Bring Commodore 64 Back to Life
Originally released in 1982, the Commodore 64 (or the CBM 64, if you like) was likely a lot of people's first experience with video...
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