All great games have clear inspirations, with some influences more visible than others in the final product. In some cases, development teams from one game take their experiences to a new one, or ...

"Street Fighter" reshaped and dominated the fighting game genre, leading to a lot of copycats and new franchises. These five games hewed the closest to the OG.

The passing of time often reminds us that success and popularity can be fleeting. That's also true of the gaming industry, where even the biggest hit games can be quickly passed over as new waves of ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

Video game violence can be a fickle thing, with some of the most controversial video games of all time relatively tame by today's standards. But for all the delicate sensibilities of the 1990s, there ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s a niche genre today, but in the 90s, space combat games were hot thanks to the blockbuster success of the 1990’s Wing ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Anyone who grew up in the 90s will probably remember the thrill of racing Rainbow Road in Mario Kart or the shock of ...

If I was lucky, I might even walk out with a video game rental or some snacks. Sadly, the last Blockbuster (aside from one defiant Bend, Oregon, outlier) went out to pasture in 2014, and independent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo Credit: Netflix) An iconic video game that originated in the 1990s is getting a Netflix television show. The first Crash ...

The owner of the James Bond 007 IP has opposed an attempt to register a trademark for video game parody character James Pond.

The '90s was a weird, horrifying, beautiful slice of the space time continuum. The global economy was based on the buying and selling of bean-stuffed animals and children's recreation involved 8-bit ...