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The biggest event on gaming's yearly calendar has given up its ghost. Will a similar fate befall the world's biggest electronics show?

On December 10, 1993, id Software released the first shareware episode of the first Doom game. It remains one of the great video games of all time, and still has a community of players and developers.

For more than 30 years, one paragraph from a gaming manual has stuck with me like no other.

Four decades ago, no one knew exactly where technology would take us. We just knew the IBM PC was here to change everything.

Thirty years ago today, id Software released Wolfenstein 3D, a thrilling first-person shooter game set during World War II. It broke new ground for action-based PC games and continued a string of growing successes for id Software. With help from John Carmack, John Romero, and Tom Hall, we’ll take a look at what made it special.

More than 40 years after blazing a trail for female video game characters, Ms. Pac-Man was inducted Thursday into the World Video Game Hall of Fame, along with Dance Dance Revolution, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Sid Meiers Civilization.

Atari has released a set of retro games this week on Steam as this is your chance to get some classic flight simulator titles.

Atari announced the release on Steam of a significant group of classic flight simulators that will bring back memories aplenty for veterans of the genre.

Published 14 Apr, 2021 This is The Limit Break, a fortnightly column in which Kat Bailey explores all things RPG. Its also, sadly, Kats last entry in the series. Congratulations to her on her new role. A question that crosses my mind from time to time is why there aren’t more horror RPGs. Certainly, RPGs are more than capable of generating psychological terrors, and horror games are as popular as they’ve ever been. But outside of a handful of classics like Sweet Home, ...

Happy Birthday, Lemmings! Iconic Dundee game is 30-years-old © SYSTEM It was exactly 30 years ago that Lemmings stormed on to the Amiga. It turned out to be a pivotal moment for the gaming industry — providing treasured memories for generations of kids. © Kris Miller A Lemmings statue at Seabraes. The puzzle-platformer  game was developed by DMA Design in Dundee, helping to put the city on the gaming map. Lemmings is estimated to have sold around 20 million copies between its various ports...