I think it’s a common impulse to want to interact with everything in a game. When the only vehicle the game gives you to do that is violence, it means I’m going to stop and murder every adorable animal I see, because that’s the only way I can acknowledge their presence.

Probably the best video man has ever made. A beautiful tribute to gaming: the good and the bad.

Wonderful blog tracking a video game project

Web review of Ervin

Kult-Seite über alte Spiele-Magazine und Retro-Games.

Phil started Hand-Drawn Game Guides in 2018, inspired by the hand-drawn maps of early Nintendo Power and homemade maps players would make.

Discover how to find the best Mario Kart 8 build using the Pareto frontier method. This interactive guide explores multi-objective optimization of speed, acceleration, and other key stats to help you beat everyone on the race track.

A celebration of video game level design and art. It’s a chance to explore and deepen the appreciation for game classic.

Bend your brain around ridiculous trivia questions! Screw your fellow players and force them to answer the hard ones! Get ridiculed by the host when you mess up! Quietly forgive the handful of jokes that haven’t aged so well!

2006 gegründeter Spezialverlag für Fachbücher rund um Medientechnik und -wirtschaft.

User friendly web games. Immediately playable, maximum fun, not overly addictive. Visit when you need a short break.

Foundation of the German games industry that is building bridges between the world of games and political and social institutions in Germany.

Open-source adventure game mapping and code generation software.

Boss Fight Books, founded in Los Angeles in June 2013, publishes nonfiction documentary-style books about classic video games. Each of our books takes a critical, historical, and personal look at a single game.

A blog dedicated to the discussion of the archaeology both of and in video games.

Top-quality retro stuff—most notably EverDrive—for classic game systems since 2009.