Sun Microsystems was once one of the most important names in serious computing. Its workstations and…
Day: 27 May 2026
The Settlers II Gold Edition update improves 68k, PowerPC and AmigaOS 4 versions
There are few sights in strategy gaming as quietly hypnotic as a healthy Settlers II economy.…
From Kick Off to Goal!: Dino Dini’s lasting impact on football games
Before football games had official stadiums, licensed boots, celebrity haircuts and menu systems complicated enough to…
Dune 2000 retrospective: how a legendary RTS remake got buried in the sand
By 1998, real-time strategy games were everywhere. They were on magazine covers, in LAN parties, on…
Tinhead retrospective: the forgotten Sega Genesis mascot platformer from Microprose
There was a moment in the early 1990s when every game publisher looked at Sonic the…
Amigaman: new Mega Man-inspired Amiga action platformer in development
A new Amiga action-platformer in 2026 is unusual, but not surprising. The Amiga scene still produces…
The 1989 CERN proposal that accidentally built the internet age
In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal at CERN to solve a problem that sounded painfully…
Dragon Quest turns 40: inside the RPG that shaped gaming history
There are few monsters in video games more disarming than the Slime. It has no claws,…