When did “modern” become a dirty word in gaming? Everyone’s too busy moaning about microtransactions and day-one patches to admit that games now are actually… playable. That might not sound like a big deal, but compared to the crash-prone, resolution-challenged disasters of the past, it’s worth saying. Modern gaming isn’t perfect. Some of it is a greedy, bloated mess. But a lot of it is smooth, responsive, and doesn’t require black magic to save your...

Why do we act like time turns every mediocre game into a misunderstood masterpiece? There’s a strange thing that happens when a game is old. People start to treat it like it was unfairly judged. Like maybe we just didn’t “get it” back then. So we go digging through bargain bins of memory, trying to revive things that should have stayed buried. Let’s stop pretending every retro game is a hidden gem. Some of them...

Is it the games you loved, or the time in your life when you played them? You have your list. The games that meant something. The ones you’ll bring up in every conversation about how gaming used to be better. Maybe it was your first console. Maybe it was that one summer you played nothing else. Whatever it is, it’s not just about the game. It’s about the version of you who played it. That’s...