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For over a decade now, the only “official” way to play Hideo Kojima’s cult classic, P.T.—the long-discontinued “playable trailer” for Kojima’s canceled “Silent Hills” project—has beendownloaded a copy during its monthslong availability window. Now, though, one coder is helping to preserve the game with a porting tool that builds a playable x86 PC executable from…

The Nintendo Entertainment System brought classic 8-bit games into homes all over the world in the 1980s. In the ’90s Nintendo stepped up its game and gave fans the Super Nintendo. The SNES helped usher in the 16-bit era and gave Nintendo a new platform for experimenting with gaming software and harder. If you’ve got…

Well, at least for those of us whose lives aren’t tragically cut short by malady or misadventure. If you’re not careful, or even when you are, the body starts to slow down. You start being unable to do the things you could easily in your youth without even thinking. It gets scary if something goes…

TV

Sometimes a television Western is more than a Western, and that was certainly true of “The Wild Wild West.” The adventure series combined the horse opera with science fiction, espionage, and pre-steampunk aesthetics, spanning four seasons on CBS in the late ’60s. Unfortunately, the show was also deemed “one of the most violent programs on television,” per…

The gaming industry has been producing horror games for decades, making it one of the medium’s most robust genres. But like so many older games, there is also no shortage of horror titles that are not legally playable on modern platforms. Whether it’s because of licensing or a lack of publisher interest in remastering these…

TV

September 22, 2026 marked the Northern Hemisphere’s official first day of fall, also known as autumn in some parts of the world. This particular season also has a notable connection to the world of American television. While TV series these days begin at much more varied times throughout the year, September was traditionally a time…

Sexton Blake Volume 1, the latest collection from Bear Alley Books, is now available. This is the first of two volumes that will collect all the “Sexton Blake” strips from the British weekly, Valiant, plus the Valiant Annual and the Valiant Book of Sexton Blake.

The mid-1990s were a revolutionary time for video games. While gaming had dabbled with 3D graphics in the past, the launch of consoles like the Sony PlayStation, Nintendo 64, and Sega Saturn marked the moment where big-budget games absolutely had to be in 3D.

Remakes have become a growing presence in the video game industry, with many fan-favorite titles reimagined for modern platforms. As a testament to their popularity, these games are often warmly received — which, of course, has spurred additional remakes. One console ripe to receive more remakes based on its games is the PlayStation 2, which…