Image: Kate Gray Welcome to the latest instalment in our nostalgia-inducing column, Memory Pak, where we’re going to be doing a deep-dive into some of the most memorable moments in gaming – good and bad. Ten years ago, Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward was released in the US. In honour of this anniversary, Kate has ...
Image: Nintendo Life / Zion Grassl I didn’t have a SNES growing up. I didn’t have a NES, either. I had an N64, though, so I’m not totally hopeless. Lately, I’ve been able to remedy the gaps in my gaming knowledge, since Nintendo’s been adding a ton of games that I either missed (because of ...
There was a time before I knew about killing games. Before Hunger Gamesbefore Danganronpa, before Squid Game. And then, I played 999. On the face of it, killing games seem sociopathic: We tend to follow a single “player” who is unwittingly enrolled in a game where only the strongest, cleverest, or most underhanded person can ...
Soapbox and ‘Memory Pak’ articles give our team a chance to share some personal perspectives; today it’s the turn of Kate Gray to tell us her memories of the week the Switch came out, five years ago… Five-ish years ago, in February 2017, I had just decided to move country. I had moved out of ...
Image: GamerJGB Over the holidays we’re republishing some of our best features, interviews, opinion pieces and talking points from the previous 12 months from staff and contributors alike — articles that we feel represent our best of 2021. In them you’ll find our usual mix of thoughtfulness, frivolity, retro expertise, gaming nostalgia, and — of ...
I’ve always loved house-building, life-simulating game The Sims. I was on the bandwagon from day one, ever since meeting the tutorial family, Bob and Betty Newbie, and finding out that they could make a baby by kissing back-and-forth for hours. Just like real life, of course. Life most people, I would spend hours and hours ...
© SEGA It’s a big anniversary year for various Nintendo franchises, but it’s easy to forget that it’s also a whopper for SEGA’s mascot, with June bringing the 30th Anniversary of Sonic the Hedgehog. We’ll have various articles celebrating that milestone, but a little ahead of time I thought I’d share a fun memory I ...
This is Memory Pak, where we’re going to be doing a deep-dive into some of the most memorable moments in gaming – good and bad. Kate takes a trip around the memory block, exploring a formative memory for many of us: our first time playing Tetris, and our first time actually being good at Tetris. ...
