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The story of X-Copy on the Amiga
The most popular Amiga program ever? We had a chat with Christian Bartsch who worked at X-Copy publisher Cachet.
Legends of the games industry: Roger Dean
We spoke with the man behind the Psygnosis logo – and so much more!
How they tested video games in the nineties
We interviewed old school game tester Robert Zalot about his time at Epyx and in EA’s GOD Squad.
Q&A with: Classic game designer Jon Ritman
Ritman created classics like Head over Heels, Batman and the Match Day games.
Norway’s first adventure games, part 2
For years, Ringen was considered lost and not much was known about it. Here’s the full story of the game, and how it was saved.
Norway’s first adventure games, part 1
The story of SVHA Adventure, and how it was saved after over 40 years of obscurity.
Interview with Howard Scott Warshaw
The legendary Atari game designer speaks about everything from E.T. to therapy in this monster of an interview.
Explore a microbial world in Cellscape
What happens when an artist focusing on microbial life becomes a game developer? We had a chat with Kate Solbakk.
Freight Manager – a new Ports of Call-inspired game
Get rich as a shipowner in this Ports of Call like game. We had a word with the developer.
A few words with David Rolfe
He created Intellivision’s EXEC «operating system», and the first arcade game where you could log your initials with your high score.
– Maybe we should do an updated Super Cars!
We spoke with Andrew Morris and Shaun Southern, the creators of Super Cars.
Fredrik Liljegren on the creation of Pinball Dreams
We spoke with one of the founders of DICE about their first game.
The Sumerian Game: The ancestor of modern city builders
We spoke with historian Andrea Contato about The Sumerian Game from 1964.
Bringing Boulder Dash back for a new generation
We spoke with Stephan Berendsen from BBG Entertainment about Boulder Dash 40th Anniversary.
The story of how Boulder Dash was created
We spoke with Boulder Dash creator Peter Liepa about his classic action-/puzzle game.
A conversation with Dave Grossman
We spoke with one of the designers behind the legendary Day of the Tentacle.
Interview with the creator of Deluxe Ski Jump
Jussi Koskela tells us the secret behind the game’s unique feeling of flying.
Interview with the creators of Folklands
Indie strategy game Folklands releases into early access later today. We’ve spoken with the developers.
Interview with the creator of Rune Song
We spoke with Jesse Luciani about his upcoming indie game, Rune Song.
Interview with the creator of The Last General
We spoke with indie developer Alejandro Nunez about his ambitious strategy game.
Interview with Alex Espeseth at Lugn Games
We spoke with Alex Espeseth about the forthcoming «cozy game» Kioku: Last Summer.
Interview with the creators of Roguecraft
We’ve spoken with Badger Punch Games about their award-winning Amiga-game Roguecraft.
Interview with Jon Hare of Sensible Software
We’ve spoken with one of the co-founders of British game developer legends Sensible Software.
Q&A with: Game designer Steve Meretzky
We talked with the designer behind games such as The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, A Mind Forever Voyaging and Leather Goddesses of Phobos.
Q&A with: Video game theorist Jesper Juul
We spoke with Jesper Juul about his latest book, Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer.
Q&As with: Michael Haire – Former Art Director at Microprose
Michael Haire worked on classics such as Sid Meier’s Pirates!, Civilization and Alpha Centauri.
Q&A with: Joel Staaf Hästö, creator of Kathy Rain
The Swedish indie-developer is making new point & click adventures in the style of the LucasArts classics.
Interview with the creator of Moonstone
We spoke with Rob Anderson, author of the cult classic Moonstone.
Interview with Microchess creator Peter Jennings
Join us as we discover the story of Microchess for the KIM-1, one of the first commercial home computer games ever published.