The Flipsider and I got the chance to check out the Classic Gaming Expo when this past weekend in Las Vegas. It was pretty cool. There was cool crap and there was just plain crap. A lot of the people there couldn’t tell the difference, but The Flipsider could. He took pictures of some cool [...]

I had to go back about six years to find this video just to illustrate how the mainstream can be influenced by video games without doing an overtly obvious homage or something too contrived. In this case, we have the illegal sampling of Namco’s Pac-Man sounds by Sony BMG artist Lil Flip. Pac-Man is used [...]

Yoshio Sakamoto is one of the creators of Metroid and was mentored by famed Gameboy designer Gunpei Yokoi. Gunpei is quoted as saying, “All you have to do is come up with a great idea, and give it to a designer. In fact, I don’t want you guys to learn any of the technical stuff. [...]