Nostalgia’s Proven ROI & The Indie Gaming Industry
Today’s Indie Games Are Tomorrow’s Nostalgia The Guardian’s Keith Stuart ran a piece this week asking whether gaming is having its…
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Return of Retro (just like we said)
Everyone’s Going Back to the Old Stuff. We Could Have Told You That. Two things happened this month that had nothing…
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Designed to Be Looked At: What Female Game Characters Tell Us About Who They Were Made For
Blaze Fielding is, canonically, a former police officer turned street fighter. In Streets of Rage (1991), she wades through waves of…
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When Music Walked Into the Room: My Greatest Crossovers Between Gaming and Music
This piece came about for two reasons. First: I’ve gone back to gaming to escape the nonsense of the job market…
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The Machines That Built Modern Gaming: A Guide to the Home Computer Era
Before consoles dominated the living room, before Steam, before mobile gaming, there were the home computers. Machines that arrived in British…
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Manchester: The City That Invented Modern Computing (And Some of the Best Games You Ever Played)
Before we begin — Manchester, Rochdale, Salford, and most of what we’re about to discuss were, until 1974, part of Lancashire….
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Is Your Old Game Collection Worth a Fortune?
Somewhere in a loft, a garage, or a charity shop box, there are games worth serious money. Not theoretical money. Not…