Tag: Best of 2023
The Making Of Rez - Tetsuya Mizuguchi's Timeless Masterpiece
"When we first made this work, it felt like magic"
Feature 20 Years After Atari's E.T., Another Company Made The Same Mistake
How NewKidCo gambled it all on E.T. with disastrous results
The Making Of Metropolis Street Racer, Project Gotham's Origin Story
"We were doing so many things that had never been done before"
The Making Of Witchwood, Team17's Abandoned Zelda Rival
"We were trying to be better than Zelda with the little things"
The Making Of Chandragupta: Warrior Prince - The Indian 'Prince Of Persia' Published By Sony
"I wrote the entire design, but the implementation was catastrophic"
Feature Streets Of Rage 2, ActRaiser And Story Of Thor - Ayano Koshiro On Her Career In Games
"It's like clothes. If you find something you like, you just put it on"
The Making Of Music, The PlayStation Audio Creation Tool From WipEout's Tim Wright
"The deepest crunch development I've ever done"
The Making Of Nintendo Magazine System's Street Fighter II VHS - The Ultimate Cover Gift?
"It was basically an escalation of the 'cover-mounted gift wars' of the period"
The Making Of Steel Battalion, The Ultimate Hardcore Mecha Experience
"I felt this anger against the entire industry. You're all just making the same old shit"
The Making Of PS2, The World's Most Successful Video Game Console
"By the end of the process, I'm almost hallucinating with jet lag"
Feature I Spent $75,000 Documenting Japan's Gaming History, And It Was Quite The Ride
A wild adventure of tropical typhoons, insane litigation, and fish testicles
The Making Of Grimace's Birthday - The McDonald's Game Boy Adventure That Became A Viral Sensation
"No one in the team expected such a warm reception"
Feature The PlayStation Performance Analyser, Ken Kutaragi's Secret Weapon In The 32-bit War
"You could understand almost everything about what the system was doing"
The Making Of John Romero's Daikatana, The Game Boy Zelda Clone That Outscored Its Big Brother
"The plan to turn an FPS into an action-RPG like Zelda was a challenge"
The Making Of Noctis, The 'No Man's Sky' Forerunner Whose Creator Retreated From The World
"I barely interact with human beings these days"
The Making Of The Menacer - How Sega Rustled Up A Super Scope Rival In Just Six Months
"It was for the American market, so let's have the Americans do it"
Feature Howard Scott Warshaw Talks E.T., Atari, & Working With Spielberg
"To this day, every time I see Atari: Game Over, I get emotional"
The Making Of Croc, 3D Platforming's Unsung Hero
"How can we make a 3D platform game?"
Feature The Incredible Story Of Satellaview, Nintendo's Satellite Modem SNES Add-On
An unorthodox radio station, exclusive games, and a bitter breakup
Interview Konami Legends Reveal The Secrets Of The Arcade Hit Factory
A rare peek behind the curtain!
The Making Of Barbie (1991), The Doll's Debut On Nintendo Consoles
"Machines were considered boys' stuff and they wanted to bring girls in"
The Making Of The Black Onyx, The Game That Hooked Japan On RPGs
How Henk Rogers, the man who bought Tetris, introduced the RPG to Japan
The Making Of BMX XXX - "We Were Building This Beautiful Skate Park And Ended Up With A Strip Club"
How Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 3 morphed into something very different
Sacred Spaces Ocean Software's Central Street HQ / Manchester, England
"It could have been the biggest disaster ever, can you imagine?"
Feature Do Kyoto's Turtle Stepping Stones Have A Connection To Mario?
Life imitating art, or the other way around?
Review HyperMegaTech Super Pocket - A Wonderful Game Boy-Style Retro Gift
With bonus Evercade support!
The Making Of BattleTech, The '90s Combo Of Immersive Reality, Online Play And eSports
"I wanted sensory overload and information overload"
The Making Of FIFA International Soccer, The Game That Launched A Billion Dollar Series
"The work that the EA Canada people did was f**king insane"
Flashback Making A Monster: The Many Influences Behind Castlevania's Alucard
Find out where the son of Dracula got his bite
Feature Playing The CeX Retro Lottery
You never know what you're gonna get?
Feature "Our Target Is Disney" - How Michael Jackson And The AS-1 Took Sega Into The Future
A tale that includes Steven Spielberg, Douglas Trumbull and Tetsuya Mizuguchi
Feature "It Became Almost Like A Cult" - The Untold Story Behind Rockstar's Iconic Logo
"We were so low-budget, which is funny to think about now"
Talking Point Are Video Games Linked To Physical Places In Your Memory?
Location, location, location
Interview Former Sega Head Of Marketing Al Nilsen On Genesis And The Birth Of 'Sonicmania'
"Everyone was saying 'Super Nintendo isn’t that big, because here’s Sonic'"
Feature "If HBO Made Zelda" - The Untold Story Of Legacy Of Kain: Dead Sun
Sam Barlow talks for the first time about the doomed sequel
