Last summer, we reported on the strange-but-true news that Clockwork Aquario, an unreleased arcade platformer from the 1990s, would finally see release, some 30 years after the title's cancellation. And it seems that the party's about to st...

[Update: The Monsters in the Dark Kickstarter has hit its target goal of $12,000. The crowdfunding campaign will remain open until April 8, at which point the book will go through its final proofing and publishing process. It will launch in...

Juro Watari, creator of the exhilarating mech-fighting series Cyber Troopers Virtual-On, has announced that he is leaving Sega after almost three decades of working alongside the studio. Watari announced his departure on Twitter, thanking S...

Cblogs Recap: Week 49 -LaTerry reveals December's Band of Bloggers prompt, which focuses on games you have Unfinished Business with. -Nior mourns the end of Flash Player by focusing on some of the best games designed with that limited prog...

As all y'all must be aware by now, tech-heads in the video game industry are on a dogged mission to get id Software's iconic shooter Doom running on as many different platforms as possible. We've already seen Doom in action on Commodore 64,...

One of the few remaining landmark arcade centres has announced that it will be closing its doors at the end of the month. Sega Building 2, located in Akihabara, Japan, will hit the lights for the last time on August 30, ending a 17-year run...

[There are some corners of the world where the video game development scene isn’t spotlighted quite as well as others, and that’s a shame. There’s so much cool stuff being put out into the universe from really unexpected p...

Cblogs Recap: Week 30 -Nior discusses the inadequate preservation of video game history, which threatens to erase the memory of some really excellent games of the past. -Chingona13 reviews Shadow of the Tomb Raider. -Eggrollbuddy discusses...

Sales are now closed on Humble Bundle's Fight for Racial Justice Bundle, which offered a selection of more than 50 titles for a minimum of $30. In one week, the bundle succeeded in raising an incredible $4 million USD, to be distributed amo...

Over the many decades I've been playing video games, I've owned enough books on the subject to fill a small library. As years have passed and space became more limited, many of these tomes went the way of friends, eBay, and charity stores. ...

The type of gaming news that keeps my heart pumpin', Strictly Limited and ININ Games have announced that they have acquired Clockwork Aquario - a '90s arcade game that never actually saw launch - with intentions of releasing the lost title ...

Last year, famed podcaster and amateur historian Dan Carlin, along with MWM Interactive, released War Remains, a virtual reality experience that put guests in the shoes of a soldier on the western front of World War I. It was only availabl...

Grand strategy fans will be pleased to hear that Paradox Interactive has announced a release date for the third mainline entry in its legendary series Crusader Kings. Coming to PC on September 1, Crusader Kings III will feature all of the i...

Do you ever have a dream about letting loose in a store with every childhood video game you've ever wanted right there for the taking? You know the one. The shelves are lined from top to bottom. You're short on time. There are too many box...

It should come as no surprise to anyone that Animal Crossing: New Horizons is doing gangbusters numbers. Just one look at social media is enough to showcase the amazing success of Nintendo's cutesy social sim. In fact, in terms of digital s...

The U.K.'s National Videogame Museum is in jeopardy after being forced to close its doors due to the ongoing COVID-19/coronavirus pandemic.The Sheffield-based institute saw its most successful week ever just recently but - as with almost al...

While air strikes and naval embargoes are the bread that hold a war effort together, wars are won with boots on the ground. But what do you do when the only boots allowed in an area are that of your enemy? That is where spies and resistanc...

I think I'd be well within my rights to say that Crusader Kings II is Paradox's most popular grand strategy. While it wasn't the first game to use the Clausewitz engine, it was decidedly less complex than Victoria II for new players. Also,...

Today marks the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany invading Poland in "retaliation" for numerous false flag attacks - perpetrated by the Nazis against themselves - then blamed on Poland. After years of unchecked aggression, blatant disregard...

The main press conferences of E3 may be done and dusted, but there's still all sorts of cool tidbits and tales coming out of ongoing events such as E3 Coliseum and Nintendo Treehouse. Take, for example, this story of a Simpsons video game t...

Christmas has come early for Final Fantasy music fans, as a whopping catalogue of original soundtracks, covering the length and breadth of Square Enix's legendary RPG franchise, have been uploaded to services Spotify and Apple Music, ready ...

Fun footage from an old Japanese television show has come to light, giving us a fleeting look at the planned, but ultimately cancelled, EarthBound 64 (or Mother 3) that was in development for the Nintendo 64 back in the mid-'90s.Unearthed b...

Every now and then, a title shows up on the video game market that has all the passion and talent of the "AAA gaming" scene, but without the budget or the marketing machine of a Warner Bros. or an Activision in its corner. Despite this, som...

Strategize against prehistoric foes and enter our contest to win Warparty! Dinosaurs are mighty cool to look at, but I've got a feeling that having to fight against them would be something else, entirely. Like, it'd be cool to take one down...

Four new titles have been inducted to the World Video Game Hall of Fame for 2019, which is hosted at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY. The four new entries are Mortal Kombat, Super Mario Kart, Colossal Cave Adventure and,...