Gaming Publications

Before CRASH became one of the defining British video game magazines of the 1980s, it was a mail-order business operating […]

On December 11, 2000, Japanese readers opening a new website called GAME Watch found themselves looking at something that reflected […]

On May 2, 2006, a new website appeared with a remarkably simple purpose. Its creator, known online as drx, intended […]

In September 1985, a new computer magazine appeared on British newsstands with a name that could easily have been mistaken […]

In early 2004, devoting an entire printed magazine to old video games was still something of a gamble. The PlayStation […]

When the first issue of Amiga Format appeared in the summer of 1989, editor Bob Wade welcomed readers to a […]

In the early 1990s, owning an Amiga meant entering a world that existed partly on floppy disks and partly on […]

In October 1998, readers of CU Amiga opened their magazine to a message few wanted to see. Editor Tony Horgan […]

By 1980, Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Jughead Jones, and their friends were living through the same arcade craze […]

In the spring of 1981, Russell Sipe was driving down the Orange Freeway near Anaheim Stadium with a computer game […]

Before walkthroughs could be searched online and long before a player could pull up a video showing exactly how to […]

In the autumn of 1992, a British Super Nintendo owner who wanted to know everything happening on Nintendo’s new 16-bit […]

Late in 1991, three people working for Future Publishing began putting together a new video game magazine under unusually secretive […]

In October 1992, British Nintendo players found something new on the shelves of their local newsagents. Across the top of […]

For millions of young players growing up during the 1990s, discovering a new video game did not begin with a […]

Long before video games became a routine subject for newspapers, television networks, and websites, American players often had to search […]

When the first issue of VideoGames & Computer Entertainment reached readers in December 1988, the American video game business looked […]

For millions of American children growing up during the Nintendo Entertainment System era, getting stuck in a video game once […]

Before game trailers appeared instantly on YouTube, before social media accounts leaked announcements from press conferences, and before a player […]

In the summer of 1986, Japan hardly seemed to need another video game magazine. Nintendo’s Family Computer had already transformed […]

When the first issue of Next Generation reached American newsstands in January 1995, the video game business was standing at […]

At the beginning of 1982, a customer receiving a piece of mail from Video Take-Out was not opening what most […]

Long before digital storefronts, achievement trackers, game wikis, and enormous searchable databases became ordinary parts of gaming culture, finding reliable […]

When Computer Gamer appeared in Britain in the spring of 1985, its title captured a change that was already taking […]

Long before Japanese video games filled American arcades, dominated home consoles, and created characters recognized around the world, there was […]

Long before video games became a recognizable industry, the businesses that would eventually manufacture, distribute, operate, and display them already […]

Long before video game websites could report a new release within minutes, before YouTube channels dissected arcade hardware, and before […]