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No one knew where the box came from. One of the managers hauled it onto a desk and called a team meeting. Everyone gathered around, wide-eyed and excited. The box was massive, Chris Kirby noted. He got a look at the shipping label. Some words were written in English. Others were Japanese kanji.

You can officially play the original "Doom" on almost every post-1993 console, and thanks to intrepid hackers around the world you can unofficially play it on practically anything with a processor. But that's not the case for 1997's "Doom 64," which has only ever been officially available on the Nintendo 64.

Why the Sega Dreamcast still resonates with game enthusiasts on its 20th anniversary.

Nintendo tried its best to make the West love RPGs, but culture — and more importantly, timing — was against the attempt.

“The cooler the idea, the harder the level becomes,” he says.

These two sisters are rewriting the soap opera rulebook with “The Sims.”

It’s often stated with no small amount of hyperbole that the “3rd Strike” Daigo Umehara Parry saved “Street Fighter.” Some even say that it saved fighting games as a whole.

From “Bloodborne” to “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds”, sometimes video games are better spent watching a loved one play than playing yourself.

For all it’s innovative titles, Lucasfilm Games was actually set up so that the parent company could avoid the massive tax penalties it incurred due to the vast amount of revenue generated by the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises. By investing in his own company, Lucas could dodge those fees.

10 years after Game Boy revolutionized portable games, its creator took a swing at creating a faithful follow-up.