In the early 2000s, Rockstar Games, makers of the Grand Theft Auto series, had their biggest success ever with Vice City , but also their g...

Hollywood made a movie about classic arcade game characters and I write a blog about classic arcade games, so I had to review Happy Madis...

What do video game movies and McDonald's breakfasts have in common? One you can only face when you're drunk and the other when ...

Twin Tiger Shark? Was that an arcade game? Why does that name sound familiar? Perhaps because this World War I-themed vertical scrol...

I've been talking about Disney's movie homage to the days of arcade gaming, Wreck-it Ralph, since last autumn, but thanks to the ...

World War II fighter planes firing lasers, magic and giant ninja swords that are also capable of turning into enormous ghosts of dead teena...

King of quirky game development, Suda 51, lends his talents to a new Xbox exclusive shoot 'em up, but can it deliver on its promise to...

Capcom enters the indie scene by backing a cracking Gradius homage. The indie game scene is thriving these days and it's not surpri...

Sega backs a beauty, with this over-the-top, explosive vehicle-based shoot 'em up.   When I think about old arcade games, I think ...

The grandfather of rock-hard, high-speed gaming, Defender,  gets a modern make over in this high quality indie game for Xbox 360. There...

One look at Final Form Games'  PC indie debut  Jamestown: The Legend of the Lost Colony will make you understand why it's got an ...

The Tron arcade game was one of my formative arcade experiences. I first played it in a neon-lit arcade on a caravan site by the sea when...

Gradius was never released on PC, but if a version had been it might have looked something like this. Hydorah , a freeware indie shmup t...