You have to give props to smaller developers like Vblank Entertainment. What they may lack in sheer manpower gets made up for with smart, funny marketing and cool promotions. Also, down-to-earth radness -- gotta have that. As part of the PAX 10, Retro City Rampage will be playable at booth #3017. Better yet, the booth will have real-life goodies up for the taking: NES-inspired cartridge labels NES-inspired boxes straight off the presses Sega Master System-inspired case inserts Permastruct-inspired game rental case inserts There will also be daily draws for the NES cartridge cases. Vblank mentioned that Retro City Rampage is ... [Link] [Cache]

div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;">#gunweek One of the experiences that unites gamers is that so many of us have picked up a plastic gun and pointed it at our TV. History has given us dozens of light guns. Here, a gallery of greats and not-so-greats... More » [Link] [Cache]

Origin’s Times of Lore for the Commodore 64 [ From Compute’s Gazette for Commodore Users, December 1988, p.5 ] Discussion Topic of the Week: What’s your favorite computer RPG of all time? Any year, any computer platform. [Link] [Cache]

Here's a blast from the past. Commodore USA has announced that they're going back to their roots, producing a line of "all in one" computer systems including one based on the classic Commodore 64 beige box design from the 1980's pictured above .  The systems may look old on the outside but have enough packed inside to make for a rather serviceable computer. The Commodore PC64 will include an Intel Atom 535 processor with an NVIDIA Ion2 graphics card, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a terabyte hard disk and a DVD-ROM with optional Blu-Ray . The system is expected to release ... [Link] [Cache]