The Video Game Archive

Every few years, a new form of media comes out for movies. It started with VHS, Laser Discs, DVDs and now Blu-rays and digital formats. Unless you are watching a George Lucas or Steven Spielberg movie, you are technically watching the same movie albeit with an increase in visual and audio quality. If you were a film buff, you would be happy to just throw away the old formats so that you could get the latest and best way to experience the movie you love. For games, it’s different. Consoles have been using specially designed architectures and processors up until the latest generation of consoles and porting the code that was specifically targeted for those consoles might prove to be a challenge with each one being so wildly different from each other that it might even be impossible to get the game up and running at all without doing a lot of legwork to redo the underlying engine that runs the game. Which is why one of the most common ways that developers might choose to allow new p...

As a writer, there’s one thing that I’ve personally struggled with a lot. And that’s writing reviews. Maybe it’s because it’s due to a lack of a corporate reviewing guideline, but personally I struggle because I overthink the whole process and perhaps over time I’ll get better as I find my own voice. But it does prompt me to wonder, why have reviews become a topic of controversy lately? Or maybe it’s always been controversial but we’ve only started seeing it now because of how easy it is to get feedback from readers. Growing up reading reviews from magazines, I guess they wouldn’t really have to print out every negative feedback they get in the letters. Just those that they were able to reply to. So things were pretty much one way most of time except for a few brief glimpses of interaction in the letters section.