As PC gamers, we tend to be as much about the good games of old as the up and coming new releases. We know that, while Crysis is all very pretty and fun, there’s a lot of nostalgic joy to be had by ...

David Heath is a List Writer from the UK specializing in video games, movies, TV shows, and the occasional anime. With the shutdown of the Wii U/3DS E-shops, and the brief respite offered to the PS3 ...

Some games end up fading into obscurity because they were, well, bad. On the other hand, some are just forgotten to time. However, there are a few that never quite leave our memories, and yet, for all ...

To be honest, the original circumstances around Assassin’s Creed Liberation looked pretty bad. The game’s Steam page was marked with an announcement that sales of the game would cease in September – ...

I think it’s fair to presume that whenever we see the Electronic Frontier Foundation (“EFF”) squaring off with a major trade association (the Entertainment Software Association or “ESA” in this case), ...

Im Englischen heißt “to abandon”: etwas aufgeben, vernachlässigen, verlassen. Die schnelllebige Software-Industrie hat sich aus dem Wort einen eigenen Begriff herausgeprägt: Abandonware, zu deutsch ...

PC gaming has always had its own vocabulary, a chaotic swirl of slang, technical terms, and jargon, and these days it can be more confusing than ever. Who could possibly keep up with it all? Well, I ...

The Steam notice can tell you if a game that still needs work hasn’t been updated in months or even years. The Steam notice can tell you if a game that still needs work hasn’t been updated in months ...

As long as there have been games, there have been crackers breaking their copy protections. “Digital Rights Management” or DRM, is a phrase for copy protection coined near the end of the 1990s, and ...

Abandonware, by its most lucid definition, refers to any piece of software that is no longer being sold or supported. That isn't the same as freeware, which is explicitly offered free of charge, like ...

Do you ever feel like booting up one of the classic games from your childhood, just to enjoy a sense of nostalgia, or maybe to show it to your own kids for the first time? Welcome to the wonderful ...