Looking for a “retro” game done right? Look no further. Retro City Rampage takes the formula of the original Grand Theft Auto (a top-down view of open-world mayhem) and adds a few cues and homages from older games like Contra and TMNT (spread guns and underwater levels), all in a sprite’d and chiptune’d package. I [...]

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I recently stumbled across Points, a series of short videos on the people and places behind video games as well as gamer culture as a whole, with a particular focus on Tokyo. Apparently, there exist such things as game bars. Nice. That’s automatically two of my favorite things right there: gaming and drinking. What’s more, [...]

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Music is almost always present in a game. Be it a character’s theme or the sound that’s playing for the level, it’s there in one form or another. When it’s not, it’s usually done for cinematic purposes, like heightening the player’s fear/suspicion of the current situation or some other gameplay mechanic, and only within a [...]

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