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.
On 10 October 2014, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra did something orchestras did not routinely do in 2014: it gave away a full performance of video game music, streamed free for anyone in t
In 2014, fans translated Xak: The Tower of Gazzel into English — unlocking a chapter of Microcabin’s Ys-inspired MSX2 RPG saga that Japanese players had kept to themselves since 1991.
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 shrank the arcade phenomenon onto the Game Boy in 1995. Our review of a flawed fighting game and a heroic conversion effort.
At a glance: Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain (PlayStation, 1996) · Top-down action RPG · Developed by Silicon Knights, published by Crystal Dynamics · Voiced by Simon Templeman as Kain · Score: 8.5/10
Every coffee-table empire starts somewhere. Bitmap Books — now the most respected publisher of video game art books in the world, its volumes stocked in museum shops and praised by the developers they
Games histories are usually told through graphics — pixels, polygons, frame rates. The Beep documentary about video game sound chose the other sense. Directed by Canadian musicologist Karen Collins, B
Every classic game has ports. Lemmings has a diaspora. Since DMA Design’s little green-haired walkers first marched onto the Amiga in February 1991, the game has been converted to more than forty plat
On 25 September 2014, the Romans invaded Britain’s newsagents for the second time in two thousand years — politely, in magazine form, at £6.99. How It Works Illustrated Volume 3 (its publisher’s annou
Every console generation has a game that tries to rebuild a giant in its own image. For the original PlayStation, one of the most interesting attempts was the Hard Edge PS1 action adventure from Sunso
On September 23, 2014, the most famous name in video games turned 125 years old — and the Nintendo 125th anniversary was a strange birthday to celebrate, because the company being honoured had spent m