From the Vault columnist. Grew up feeding quarters to the Ms. Pac-Man machine at his uncle's pizza place; still owns his childhood SNES and every Nintendo Power he ever begged his mother for. Writes the retrospectives and the hidden-gem hunts.
Wednesday 5 November 2014 was supposed to be an ordinary PlayStation Store update day in Europe. The headline act was Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, but buried in the PlayStation 3 and Vita listings,
Race the Sun on PS Vita is an argument for the perfect handheld game: one more run, always one more run, and a run never lasts longer than the gap between two bus stops. Flippfly’s endless flyer puts
In 2014 the Internet Archive put 900+ classic arcade games in the browser, free. A decade on, its preservation landmark still delivers.
Wayne Ashworth and Kevin Darbyshire spent three years rebuilding their 1995 public domain deathmatch Renegades into Renegades Deluxe — and the Amiga Games Award voters noticed.
Open a game box from 1989 and the game is only half of what’s inside. Under the cartridge sits the manual: thirty, forty, sometimes sixty pages of story, artwork, maps, enemy bestiaries, control diagr
Turrican’s grenades lived on the space bar and your stick had one button. How the Amiga answered the Joy2Key question — with second buttons, CD32 pads, WHDLoad patches and a few honest limits.
Of all the remakes and remasters that never happened, the Sonic 3 & Knuckles remaster still stings the most, because the people who wanted to make it had already proved — three times — that nobody on
At a glance: YoYo’s Puzzle Park (PlayStation, 1996 Japan / 1999 Europe) · Single-screen platform puzzler · Developed by Irem · Never released in North America · Score: 7.5/10
At a glance: Futuridium EP Deluxe (PS Vita, 2014) · Arcade shooter by MixedBag (Italy) · A love letter to C64 classic Uridium · Deluxe edition of Futuridium EP with extra modes and zones · Score: 7.0/
Scotland has given gaming more than its share of icons — appropriately, since some of the medium’s most important studios, from DMA Design in Dundee to Rockstar North in Edinburgh, learned their trade