Game culture
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Sega co-founder David Rosen dies aged 95
Rosen, who led Sega from the 1960s into the 90s and who died on Christmas Day, was a hugely important figure i…
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‘A force of nature who took no prisoners’: a tribute to Ninja Gaiden creator Tomonobu Itagaki
The driving force behind Team Ninja was a game development samurai who almost always won his battlesGame desig…
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Pushing Buttons: At Tokyo Game Show, I saw the Japanese games scene I grew up with is still live and kicking
In this week’s newsletter: Konami, cute RPGs, weird but wonderful indie games – everything I saw at Japan’s bi…
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Pushing Buttons: At Nintendo’s new museum in Japan, I found a nostalgia-laced trip down memory lane – not a history lesson
From playing Super Mario on a giant control to spotting Pikmin hiding in corners, my visit to this delightful …