Toontown Online, one of the oldest kid-friendly MMOs, has just turned 18 years old. To celebrate, the team behind the Toontown Rewritten private server have announced a massive preservation project…
June 3, 2021 | 12:00 EDT
The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X are celebrating their fifth month on the market right now. While the consoles have sold incredibly well according to sales reports released so far, there are still…
April 13, 2021 | 01:00 EDT
The recent rumors regarding the closure of Sony’s digital stores for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, and PlayStation Vita was no doubt shocking, yet not surprising. After all, on the…
March 26, 2021 | 12:00 EDT
Avid gamers know how important video-game preservation is. So often it’s difficult to (legally) get our hands on a title because the hardware is outdated, or the original game has been region locked…
February 19, 2021 | 11:00 EST
Last time, we went into the exhaustive development of Stage 3 of Zelda 64, at this point now officially called Ocarina of Time in development. From it, child Link was introduced, story beats were…
February 4, 2021 | 01:00 EST
Last time, we looked into the exhaustive development of Zelda 64 through Stage 1 and Stage 2 of the game's life, going into the limitations of the 64DD, the growing press buzz, and the beginnings of…
February 3, 2021 | 01:00 EST
Last time, we introduced the pre-production phase of Ocarina of Time, from its very early influences in chanbara swordplay to failed experiments using the FX chip. This article will continue the…
February 2, 2021 | 01:00 EST
Recently, one of the biggest finds in gaming history occurred; several beta maps and assets from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time were discovered on a few Nintendo 64 dev kits. For a whole…
February 1, 2021 | 01:00 EST
When it comes to games and legacy content, few companies have quite the catalogue like Nintendo. Over three decades of game development and innovation, Nintendo has created a library filled with…
January 25, 2021 | 12:00 EST
Game preservation is not just about finding rare games. It is also finding game demos, which are even harder to come by at times because of how unusually some demos are distributed, especially during…
December 2, 2020 | 04:34 EST
The Secret of Monkey Island is one of the most popular adventure games ever made. Known for its humor, clever puzzles and gorgeous animations, The Secret of Monkey Island is perhaps the crown jewel…
November 25, 2020 | 10:55 EST
It is another bit of Nintendo history that has been uncovered and posted onto the internet, with Nintendo prototype 3D Challenge. This time around, it is looking at a long game that not only never…
October 26, 2020 | 06:24 EDT
In a massive blow to both preservation of game content and streaming archives, new Twitch rules have resulted in the deletion for hundreds of streamers for their archived content, in what Twitch is…
October 21, 2020 | 09:10 EDT
Not a lot of people may remember Warhawk, a rather niche multiplayer PS3 exclusive title. It was a game where players would fly in jet fighters, engaging in dogfights online with each other. The game…
October 2, 2020 | 02:23 EDT
The Nintendo Gigaleak continues, but this time we go some interesting tidbits of Nintendo History to sift through, and in one case, a Nintendo employee pushing the company to use ROMs. A few days…
October 2, 2020 | 11:30 EDT
If there is one company in the gaming world that always generates interest in their inner workings, it is Game Freak, the creators of the Pokemon franchise. Part of this goes into the long-term…
September 28, 2020 | 10:40 EDT
The National Videogame Museum has gone virtual in one of the most gamer ways possible, with a little help from Doom 2. A few days ago it was announced that the National Videogame Museum, located in…
August 11, 2020 | 10:08 EDT
More than any other medium, games have struggled to preserve their past. If you want to read an old book or see an old movie, there’s a good chance that between the second-hand market, electronic…
July 24, 2020 | 01:00 EDT
Roughly 30 years ago, SimCity was making waves as a fun new simulation game. Players could build out an entire city and watch it spring to life — or die a horrible, fiery death. Fans had loads of fun…
May 19, 2020 | 04:32 EDT
A lot of people are keeping their eyes on Terraria, but a Terraria: Otherworld open source petition is focused on something else entirely — getting a canceled game released to the public for free.…
May 12, 2020 | 05:52 EDT
A lost traffic safety game for the SEGA Master System has been recovered by SMS Power!, a game community dedicated to preserving 8-bit SEGA games. Titled Game de Check! Koutsuu Anzen (ゲームでチェック！交通安全…
March 27, 2020 | 02:45 EDT
A unique piece of gaming history has just been sold. The Nintendo PlayStation auction has come to an end, netting the seller a tidy six-figure sum. If you're unfamiliar with the background of this…
March 6, 2020 | 01:55 EST
What will happen to Flash games? With the impending end of support for the beleaguered software program coming in 2020, we may soon lose access to a big piece of gaming history. Thankfully, The…
March 5, 2020 | 03:11 EST