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Occasionally I’ve toyed with the notion of creating a GA podcast. Fortunately I’m too lazy to bother with such an idea and fear that it would end up awful, aside from the lack of a professional recording studio. However, I do enjoy listening to the odd gaming podcast...

I only ever played the original Mario Kart on Daniel Johnston’s SNES. He was the kind of delightful child who would play ‘Saturday Night’ by Whigfield every time I went round, knowing full well I hated it. Still, he was called Johnson’s Baby Lotion at school, and that...

As you can probably tell, the site has changed a little. In part, thanks to a messed up software update, and also just due to our fickle nature. We’ll be trying to restore service to normal over the coming hours and days, albeit with a camp new look,...

Useless videogame accessories have been around for as long as videogames themselves. Who remembers the infamous Game Veil, a piece of black cloth designed for putting over your head while playing handheld games? Or those extra speakers for the original Game Boy, so that everybody in an entire...

A short while ago Sony got a scolding over Resistance on PlayStation 3 featuring a battle in Manchester Cathedral. What occurs in Global Defence Force isn’t as sacred, but within the first few minutes alone you can reduce Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament or the London Eye...

Nintendo’s philosophy has always been to wait and see what their competitors are up to, then go one step further and better their products. It happened with the SNES, it happened with the Nintendo 64 and it arguably happened with the Wii. Back in 1995 however, the Kyoto...