Investigating the history of videogames, an in-depth look into their obscure, untold and often troubled development story, trivia and everything else interesting.
WELCOME BACK, MY PRETTIES Welcome to part 2 of the death and rebirth of adventure games. We’ve already celebrated the funeral so, now, we’re going to see how adventure gaming slowly comes back to life, shambling et al. We will focus on 2001-2009, the period when things will start to be set in stone for…
IF I WAS A GAMER… BUT THEN AGAIN, NO In my teen years adventure games were my favourite genre for two critical reasons: they were genuinely the funniest out of them all and the only games where characters and story always came first. In most other genres story was, most of the time, an afterthought.…
No one was paying attention to the end of the decade that fateful 31st of December 1999. Hey, we had more important things on our hands. It was the end of the millennium! You were probably busy sending heaps of sms to your friends and family and trying to remember to turn off your pc…