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Having first been established in 1979, the world of handheld videogames is nothing new but the recent technological advancements show that in many ways, it's just getting started. The idea [...]

From its earliest releases onwards, Parker Brothers set its stall out as a producer of licence-based videogames. Parker started 1982 with convincing Atari 2600 adaptations of the hit Konami coin-ops [...]

Nintendo isn't Kyoto's only videogame company. Nor, indeed, its most central--at least geographically speaking. While Nintendo's headquarters are a little out of the way, in the Shimogyo-ku district, we find [...]

For a long time, Pokemon existed essentially in a category of one. While that's changed in recent years, with indie games offering everything from traditionalist to trolling takes on the [...]

Shoshinkai is a Japanese word which literally means 'beginning party'. From 1989 until 1996, it was also the name of a three-daylong videogame tradeshow hosted by Nintendo, during which the [...]

The history of Animation Magic feels like that moment in Rocky IV when a tired and beat up Sylvester Stallone proudly announced the end of the frictions between the USA [...]

When the tenth anniversary of the PlayStation rolled around on 3 December 2004, Sony was on top of the world. Its original machine had transformed the business, and the PlayStation [...]

METROID A SIGNIFICANT SERIES Although she might not be as popular as Mario, Link or Donkey Kong, there's no denying the impact of Samus Aran. When she began exploring Zebes [...]

Q HAYLEY EVANS, CHESTER How can I play classic games legitimately? A If you want to play something from the Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft console back catalogue and it happens [...]

What does 'Xbox' actually mean, in 2024? The name suggests a physical object, of course, but recent events suggest Microsoft is paying about as much attention to the increasingly dusty [...]

Seeing you've joined us for such an important issue, it seemed only right that we look at the many great games that have defined our hobby over the decades. Readers, [...]

Byline: Johan 'N0tail' Sundstein My earliest gaming memories are of playing Mario on the Nintendo Game Boy. It was a big thing at school, and then after that came Pokemon. [...]

For 30 years, Sony has sought a PlayStation mascot to rival the likes of Mario and Sonic. Finally, “a true contender has arrived,” said Simon Cardy in IGN . Meet [...]

100 KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO Developer Cardboard Computer Release 2013 Format PC Review E342 (9) Cardboard Computer's fabulist tale of the crowded-out, the put-upon and the otherwise forgotten is softly spoken [...]

WORLDWIDE COMPUTER PRODUCTS NEWS-July 31, 2024-Snail Inc launches Genesis Part 2 expansion for ARK on Nintendo Switch (C)1995-2024 M2 COMMUNICATIONS http://www.m2.co.uk Global developer and publisher of interactive digital entertainment Snail, [...]

One of the biggest shocks in Emio--The Smiling Man comes before the game even begins: spotting a PEGI 18 rating on a firstparty Nintendo game. This is a company whose [...]

Platform games Shawn Layden, as quoted in E400's Soundbytes, posits a reality--or perhaps a future--in which there is only 'one standard home console technology', and positions the much-touted platform war [...]

For Brandi Ahmer, AKA Gamer Ahmer, her love of videogame collecting started after experiencing a certain plumber for the first time. 'I fell in love with gaming in the Nineties' [...]

>> MANUFACTURER: Mattel >> YEAR: 2006 >> COST: $69.99 (launch), [pounds sterling]120+ (today, boxed), [pounds sterling]50+ (today, unboxed) Combining two things that kids love into a new, better thing is [...]

>> PLATFORM: NINTENDO 64 >> RELEASED: 1999 >> DEVELOPER: HAL LABORATORY Who would have thought that classic Nintendo icons would put up such a stiff fight? You've fought against Link [...]

ASSASSIN'S CREED: SHADOWS Developer/publisher Ubisoft(Quebec) Format PC, PS5, Xbox Series Origin Canada Release November 15 Ubisoft is keen to focus on the dual protagonists in its latest bout of historical [...]

When you're immersed in a particularly good book it becomes all-consuming: you can almost feel the enveloping embrace of its world around you as you read. That magic seems especially [...]

And to think, it all starts so innocently. Mario receives a letter from Princess Peach inviting him to the town of Rogueport for a treasure hunt. The name of this [...]

As the industry rumour mill turns, we're used to seeing major players doing all they can to avoid getting caught in its wheels, with Sony and Microsoft as deft as [...]

#387 XBOX 32 Starfield 34 Forza Motorsport 35 South Of Midnight 35 Clockwork Revolution 35 33 Immortals 36 Fable 38 Dungeons Of Hinterberg 38 Avowed 38 The Lamplighters League 39 [...]

Although it could be argued that its legacy began in the arcades (see page 20), Rare's actual heritage officially started with Ultimate Play The Game. Set up by Tim and [...]

When Steven Spielberg finished shooting Jurassic Park, the producers were not sure it was going to be a hit. Sure, it featured impressive animatronics and expensive computer graphics, but would [...]

Wait a minute. Mario's an elephant? This might not be the plumber's most startling metamorphosis to date--the one to which we similarly referred at the start of E312's Super Mario [...]

A decade ago, sitting in a world history class, I hollered at my friends, 'GTA over GPA!' I was 15 years old, still a hardcore gamer back then. My teacher [...]

If there's an underlying theme to Rockstar's Midnight Club series it's one of grasping opportunities, and this trend started all the way back with the original title. Its one-of-a-kind driving [...]

Nobody rushed to disagree with Julian Gollop when, in 2017, he declared that XCOM had become its own genre. By that time, after all, Ubisoft and Nintendo had backed the [...]

Virtual reality isn't the easiest place to make a long-term home. The wail of technology that greets us at nDreams' studio is testament to that. With examples from Nintendo's Virtual [...]

The Nintendo Entertainment System, and its Japanese counterpart the Famicom, need no introduction--if you're reading this magazine, you'll know that the 8-bit hardware catapulted Nintendo to a position of global [...]

It's fitting that one of Nintendo's weirdest The Legend Of Zelda characters made his debut in one of the most unusual Zelda games; Majora's Mask. In this unconventional adventure, packed [...]

People familiar with the Baby Park course from Mario Kart: Double Dash may argue that the colourful racing series has always been the work of sadists. It's certainly true that [...]

During the company's financial call, Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa revealed some details about the upcoming successor to the Switch.Furukawa stated that the successor to the Switch will be announced sometime [...]

Tokyo stocks fell Wednesday on profit-taking with Nintendo and Sony down sharply and investors focused on Toyota's cautious earnings outlook. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index gave up 1.63 percent, or [...]

Byline: Kapish Khajuria Highlights Grounded, initially launched on Xbox and PC in 2020, is set to debut on PlayStation and Nintendo consoles on April 16, 2024. The game draws inspiration [...]

Four games that were formerly exclusive to Microsoft will soon be available on rival consoles. Hi-Fi Rush and pirate game Sea of Thieves are coming to Sony's PS5 only. Meanwhile, [...]

The Switch may be over seven years old now, but the latest Nintendo Direct proves there's still plenty of life left in the ageing console. The clear highlight of the [...]

>> NINTENDO 64 >> 1998 >> PLAYER1 During lockdown, I found several ways to keep myself distracted from the threat of COVID-19. One was going for daily walks with my [...]

>> WII, 2006, KONAMI When I think of Nintendo's Wii, I don't think of it as an underpowered console, but one that offered unrivalled possibilities over its peers. The Xbox [...]

MORTAL KOMBAT II FORMAT SNES * DEVELOPER Sculptured Software * YEAR 1994 * ORIGIN USA * LOCALISED FOR Japan * REASONS Violence * * Hands up if you know this [...]

With a passion for print and a history of handheld gaming, Paul Murphy has gone from magazines like Vitamag and Switch Player to creating the retro-focussed GameBook and GameBook Color [...]

>> MANUFACTURER: Sharp >>YEAR: 1986 >> COST: [yen]32,000 (launch), [pounds sterling]220+ (today, boxed), [pounds sterling]130+ (today, unboxed) The arrival of the Famicom Disk System in early 1986 brought larger games [...]