In the 1990s, the run-and-gun genre was at its peak. Developers were starting to move toward first-person shooters on PC, but console players were enjoying the fruits of lessons learned from games ...

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Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

Eduardo Ariedo is a video game journalist known among friends for leading Bohemians, an Irish football club, to a Champions League title in Football Manager—just mention the game, and his eyes light ...

The Super Nintendo marked the time when game developers could really spread their creative wings for the first time, as the harsh hardware restrictions of the NES were no longer an issue. Some retro ...

Josh Speer has been writing about videogames for more than a decade now, but he's loved them since he was a small boy. He grew up with Mario and Mega Man, moved onto RPGs with Chrono Trigger and Final ...