Anniversary

In Real Life

Celebrate 15 Years Of Wild Arms With Four Hours Of Free Music

6:20AM December 22, 2011 | Mike Fahey

A decade and a half ago a sublime blend of Eastern role-playing and Wild Western adventure was released in Japan. Today the talented folks at OC Remix celebrate that release with a free album featuring more than four hours of expertly twisted tunes from the soundtrack of the original Wild Arms. More »


Nintendo

Rock Band: The Untold Story Of Robot Goat Legs

9:20AM November 23, 2011 | Mike Fahey

In October of 2007, Rock Band hit rock bottom, crashing its car into a tree in an alcohol-soaked haze. It was then it knew it had to turn things around. On November 20, 2007, Harmonix introduced it to the world and changed everything. More »


News

Celebrate 15 Years Of Tomb Raider With Battered Lara Croft

4:20AM October 5, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Fifteen years ago this month, Eidos introduced to a sexy new video game heroine by the name of Lara Croft. Crystal Dynamics celebrates the 15th anniversary of Tomb Raider with a month-long digital art exhibition inspired by the upcoming series reboot. More »


In Real Life

Halo Anniversary Minimates Put Cortana In Your Pocket

9:10AM September 22, 2011 | Mike Fahey

All I ever wanted was a clear blue curvy woman to call my own, and that’s exactly what we’re getting in Diamond Select Toys’ commemorative Halo Anniversary Minimates set. More »


PC

30 Years Of IBM PCs Means 29.9 Years Of PC Gaming

1:00AM August 13, 2011 | Joel Johnson

Today’s a special day: The 30-year anniversary of the launch of the IBM PC, a machine created for business that many of us soon discovered made a perfectly wonderful gaming machine. The PC wasn’t my first gaming computer (that was a Radio Shack TRS-80), but it was certainly the one that turned me into a gamer. More »


Nintendo

Samus And Metroid Turns 25 Years Old

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10:30AM August 8, 2011 | Mark Serrels

While Microsoft are making a big fuss over Halo’s 10 year anniversary, and Nintendo itself highlighted Mario’s 25th birthday, Samus and Metroid turned 25 over the weekend and I’ve barely heard a peep about it from anyone. This makes me a little bit sad. More »


News

20 Years Of Sonic The Hedgehog All At Once, All For You

3:40AM July 21, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of its spiky blue mascot and the upcoming double-stuffed Sonic Generations, Sega show us how far Sonic has come, how far he’s gone off course, and how Sonic the Werehog gameplay never really counted. More »


News

Celebrating Seven Years Of City Of Heroes

2:40AM April 29, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Seven years ago today, NCsoft and Cryptic Studios released City of Heroes, providing fantasy-gorged massively multiplayer online gamers a new way to waste countless hours of their lives alongside thousands of their closest friends. Let’s celebrate seven years of heroes and villains with a colourful infographic and nostalgia-laden anecdotes! More »


PC

12 Years Later EverQuest Still Soldiers On

3:30AM March 17, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Today marks the 12th anniversary of the original EverQuest. What keeps one of the original big massively multiplayer fantasy games going after all these years? More »


PC

Celebrating 5 Years Of Dungeons & Dragons Online With Pirates

5:00AM February 23, 2011 | Mike Fahey

It’s been five years since Turbine opened the port of Smuggler’s Rest to adventurers heeding the call of Dungeons & Dragons Online, and to Smuggler’s Rest they’ll return for the new quests and special gifts of a special anniversary event. More »