How to Futureproof Your Physical PlayStation Game Collection
I’m a classic games fan. I treat my games the same way I treat my books: take one off the shelf, open it, start reading. Take a disc off the…
Game Guides & Stories
Explore our collection of gaming guides, deep dives, and stories about the games that shaped PC gaming history.
Top 10 Classic Retro Games Available On PS5 Now
The PS5 gets marketed as the ultimate blockbuster machine. It is all about hyper-realism and controllers that vibrate when it rains. But if you actually dig into the PS Store,…
Game Facts About Some Older Titles That Will Blow Your Mind
I’ve been playing PC games for the best part of thirty years, and I genuinely thought I knew them inside out. Then I started digging, and I kept running into…
How to Get Your Old PC Game Discs Running on Windows 11
Somewhere in your place there is a spindle of jewel cases. Maybe a shoebox. Mine lived in a drawer under the router for years, a stack of classic Blizzard games…
How to Play Classic PC Games on the Steam Deck
The Steam Deck gets plenty of love as an indie machine. Fair enough. It runs Hades beautifully, turns Balatro into a dangerous bedtime mistake, and handles a ridiculous amount of…
Gothic 1 Remake: First Impressions
I still remember the first time the original Gothic killed me. I’d been playing maybe two minutes. No tutorial, no quest marker, no little voice telling me where to go.…
Surviving the Dark Age of Mid-2000s Console-to-PC Ports
Right around twenty years ago, PC gaming was in a very weird place. We were getting incredible native PC titles. At the same time a wave of console-first publishers finally…
Steam vs GOG for Classic PC Games – Which Store Is Better?
Buying a classic PC game should be simple. You search for the game, see it on Steam, see it on GOG, compare the price, and pick one. But with older…
Why Old Blizzard Games Last And New Ones Don’t
Reading Jason Schreier’s Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment feels less like examining corporate history and more like walking through a forensic sweep. You can see…
The Best Persistent Browser-Based Games Everyone Remembers
There was a time when a single browser tab could feel like an entire world. No gaming PC required. No massive download. No dedicated hour carved out of your evening.…
Tzar, Celtic Kings and Rising Kingdoms – 3 Underrated RTS Games
Real time strategy games no longer sit at the center of PC gaming in the way they once did. The genre still matters, and it still produces excellent games, but…
HoMM Olden Era and the Return of Classic Fantasy Strategy
Some series never really leave PC gaming. Heroes of Might and Magic is one of them. Players still talk about Heroes II and Heroes III because those games got the…
The Most Iconic Disney Games from the Classic Era
There was a time when a Disney game could sell itself in seconds. When you saw the box, you recognised the film immediately, and that was enough to make you…
How to Run Old Windows 95, 98, and XP Games on Windows 11
Old PC games do not usually stop working because they are “too old” in some vague sense. They break because they were built for operating systems, graphics APIs, installers, drivers,…
Pentium Processors and Their Impact on PC Gaming
The Pentium name first appeared in 1993 and remained part of Intel’s product lineup for decades, but for PC gaming history the most emblematic chapters were Pentium II, Pentium III,…
How to Play DOS Games on Windows 11
Many classic PC games were designed for older operating systems, which is why so many players still wonder how to play DOS games on Windows 11. The good news is…
What is the Difference Between Retro and Classic Games
Over the years, I’ve often heard people use the words retro and classic when talking about their childhood or teenage gaming days, usually with a bit of nostalgia for all…