Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has just launched a new free-to-play iOS app, Midway Arcade Free, which is a compilation of classic retro Midway titles, for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Players will be able to re-connect and re-master their favorite arcade games on the go with this ultimate collection. Midway Arcade Free comes equipped [...]

When you are company with a pedigree like Atari, what would you do in a world where smartphones and casual gaming rule? Answer: You’d mine your backlog of games to come up with modern iterations that would fit perfectly on the small screens (bar the Galaxy Note) being carried in the pockets of millions around [...]

The venerable gaming company Atari actually turned 40 yesterday! Bring out the champagne all you Atari heads out there, it’s seldom for a western games company to last so long but Atari has done it. To commemorate this super special occasion, they’ve come up with an interesting infographic. Check it out:

Two of my favourite video game publications, both of them UK-based, Edge and Retro Gamer has always offered interesting perspective on the past and present of UK’s video-games industry. Now, a couple of filmmakers have announced that they are about to come up with a documentary about the same subject matter, and I say it’s [...]

Warner Bros has just released a collection of 10 classic arcade titles, called the Midway Arcade app, for the iPad, iPod touch and iPhone and it’s available now on the iTunes App Store for just 99 cents. The 10 titles include Spy Hunter, Rampage, Defender, Joust, Root Beer Tapper, Arch Rivals, and 4 skills-based games, [...]

I bumped into a rather interesting website when I was doing some research for an earlier blog post, and it’s actually the web version of a classic Apple II turn-based strategy game called Taipan!. How cool is that? The original game was inspired by James Clavell’s novel of the same name and had players sailing [...]

A game such as Stardash for the iPhone represents a confluence of ideas and inspirations that make the game such an interesting one to pick up and play. First up, players would definitely notice the green-ish (apparently I’m a bit colour blind, so don’t blame me for getting the shade wrong) graphics/art style which is [...]

We’ve featured before several of rickonami‘s tribute videos for a number of popular Konami titles (check out our previous post). This time around, the prolific animator and special FX artist has come up with a short tribute intro for Contra! There are a couple of things, I mean, personalities, to look out for in this [...]

Fans of the Pepsi Throwback Atari Arcade, and especially fans of the old Tempest arcade game would be happy to know that Tempest has been released on the Facebook app as of yesterday. For those not in the know, Tempest was a shmup and has the distinction of being the first video game to introduce [...]

What I learned a couple of days ago was that a year before Ralf Jones (a.k.a Paul) was kicking ass in SNK’s Ikari Warriors, he was the main character of an earlier SNK arcade title, T.N.K III. Players are tasked with destroying a weapon on an island, and to do so, will need to eliminate [...]