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The days when console video games on your favorite PlayStation or Xbox (depending on where your loyalties lie) ruled the gaming world are long gone. The new wave of PC-based online multiplayer games as well as the re-emergence of old classics like blackjack and online slots have shifted the focus in new directions. Here are […]
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From eSports to Online Casino Games: Top 3 Most Popular Video Game Trends to Watch out for in 2018
March 29th, 2018 
Carl Williams 
From Dinosaurs to Alligators: The Evolution from Retro Gaming to eSports
July 27th, 2017 Carl Williams Looking at the popularity of eSports today, some would wrongly assume that audiences’ obsession with “faster” and “newer” would mean that retro games are heading towards extinction. However, that’s a misconception. Rather, it is as if dinosaurs are now living side by side with their modern-day alligator descendants. eSports have arguable been in existence for decades, […]
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From “Tennis on TV” to the Global eSports Phenomenon of Today
March 31st, 2017 Carl Williams When would you say that video games first emerged–the ’80s, maybe the ’70s at a push? In fact, you’d have to go back to the 1940s for the true origins of the video game, and need a computer that fills up half a room to play them.
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Six Retro Alternative Sports Games That Never Get Old
February 4th, 2017 Michael Crisman Yeah, let’s hear it for some good old-fashioned SPORTSBALL, beeyotch!! Look, you either love sports games, or you love to point out how much money EA makes repackaging and re-selling the same game (sometimes literally) to players year after year. I unabashedly fall into the latter category, not only because I can’t tell you the […]
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Four Unloved ZX Spectrum Sports Games
October 28th, 2016 Carl Williams The ZX was a haven for sports games in the eighties, with everything from football and motor racing to bowls and kung fu getting the video game treatment. A few of them, such as Daley Thompson’s Decathlon (and all its button-mashing goodness) never left the public consciousness but the majority never came close to immortality. […]
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Essential Amstrad CPC sports games
January 2nd, 2016 CPC4EVA In the 1980’s It seemed whenever software companies were stuck for ideas they’d always bring out a new sports game, the concept still rings true today. Matchday was the essential football / soccer game on the CPC in the early years then there was the sequel Matchday 2 that boasted much more enhanced improvements to the […]
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HATTRICK: Real-Time Intelligent Sports Edutainment for the Socially-minded Casual Gamer.
August 11th, 2015 Adam Nelon And now for something completely different. From kicking footballs with fire tornadoes and explosive headbutts to the enjoyable intrigue that is managing your own football team. In my last review, I covered the obscure but highly enjoyable soccer JRPG Inazuma Eleven 2, where it took the basic game of soccer and managed to make it […]
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Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse Makes Sega Genesis Debut – December 2nd, 1990 – Today in Video Game History
December 2nd, 2020 Carl Williams Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse by Sega for the Sega Genesis is a sign of the times. If you had a non-sports licensed product, you had a 2D side scrolling action game. Sure, there is the oddball here and there starring people like Shaquille O’Neal but, thankfully they are rare. Sega knew what they […]
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Garfield Caught in the Act Brings Attitude to Sega Game Gear – November 29th, 1995 – Today in Video Game History
November 28th, 2020 Carl Williams Garfield Caught in the Act was Sega’s attempt to return to licensed games. Earlier they had success with Disney licenses such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. For some reason Sega stopped their efforts in the licensed game realm. That is until Virgin Interactive had critical success with their version of Aladdin for the Sega […]
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Best Retro Football Video Games Ever Made
October 21st, 2020 Carl Williams Retro games that hark people back to the good old pixelated days of button-bashing are making a comeback right around the world, with people going potty for everything from game soundtracks being repackaged as vinyl special editions to old consoles fetching more than their modern counterparts online.
