I've got good news and bad news, Retrofans. To follow the cliché, I'm going to lead with the bad news, because you've hung with me a long time and you can take it. The bad news is, I lied to you at the end of
In some of the older D&D books from the golden days of TSR (namely “1st edition” Advanced D&D), The few incredible images rendered by masters like Erol Otus are surrounded on all sides by what can best be described as “almost art.” It's either strange
It’s never guaranteed which games become eSports titles. Some big-budget video games fail to make the cut while others designed by smaller independent studios can fill arenas with eager fans. A burgeoning eSports scene can be hugely lucrative to game developers as they aim to
In a time beyond time, when the grit and stone of our video gaming foundations was still somewhat molten and mutable, there were games whose footsteps left a fossilized and indelible mark on the tone of things to come. In these earlier days, it was
At the end of last month, we looked at three titles from the year 1987, taking stock of their pros and cons thirty years after their original release. I like to think of the process as something between an honest review, a nostalgic look back,
I'll start this off the way I like to start as many conversations as possible these days: I have a ton of emulators now, not to mention a handful of working consoles. Every moment I don't spend writing, doing other work, playing D&D, sleeping, reading,
This month’s NRW feature goes back to a time when I used to drive around in cars hitting pedestrians for fun; performing drive-by shootings and time attacks on busy highways. I’m talking, of course, about my childhood and, more specifically, the vehicles featured in video
Have a look as Bryan runs his mouth about five images from classic gaming that stand out as pieces of fantastic art!
To look back wistfully for the hundredth or so time, I've written a lot of articles for NRW about a lot of classic games. All these games, with very few exceptions, were ones that originated in the arcade or for one console and
In October 1958, a physicist name William Higinbotham changed the lives of many with his invention of what is believed to be the first ever video game. A simple tennis game, it became quite the hit at the Brookhaven National Laboratory open house. It was never
In this installment of Console Graveyard, we'll take a look at a piece of hardware that was just a little ahead of its time.
Believe it or not, at the time of this writing, we are seeing the eighth generation of home video game consoles. It has been that long.We've seen and experienced a plethora of amazing concepts, innovative ideas, and ultimately spent millions (maybe billions?) of