Why Most Game Remakes Miss the Point (And the Few That Don’t)
First time I saw a remake done properly, I was queuing up in Game in Manchester city centre, holding a copy of Resident Evil for...


















First time I saw a remake done properly, I was queuing up in Game in Manchester city centre, holding a copy of Resident Evil for...
That Game Boy saved my sanity during what might’ve been the longest car ride in human history. Summer of ’91, I’m crammed in the back...
Right, here’s something that’s been bugging me for years – everyone bangs on about Crash Bandicoot being this massive PlayStation icon, and I get it,...
Look, I never thought I’d be the guy people call when they want to throw a good party. For most of my adult life, I...
I’ve got a graveyard of controllers that died honorable deaths. Well, maybe not honorable. There’s that Genesis controller I threw hard enough to crack my...
I can still feel that bloody great CRT monitor trying to slip out of my sweaty hands as I navigated Tom’s parents’ narrow staircase. Thirty-two...
The most terrifying boss I’ve ever faced wasn’t some eight-bit nightmare from my Amiga days or even that bastard difficult final level in Shadow of...
The first time a video game made me actually cry, I was twenty years old in 1998, sitting in my cramped dorm room at ASU...
I was thirteen when my mam discovered my copy of Mortal Kombat hidden under a stack of Amiga Format magazines. She’d come into my room...
Man, you know you’ve hit that weird middle-aged point when you’re explaining to your students why I can still remember the exact location of every...