Gamers of a certain age remember a classic era of gaming, full of CRTs, blinking lights, and plastic cartridges. But are our memories nothing more than biased nostalgia, or was there really something special back then that’s been lost in the shift to modern, online-focused games? Sarah Brown takes a look at how the themes of classic and modern gaming compare.
Video Game Sales Up 12% in October, Xbox 360 Top Console
Just as eager gamers are unboxing their brand new PS4s, NPD has video game sales figures from the last full month of the soon-to-be-previous console generation. Game sales were up year-over-year for the third straight month while hardware sales had an expected decline.