# Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Right, so Carl asked me to cover this one, mostly because Tim keeps banging on about how “cinematic gaming” started with the PS3 generation and someone needs to point out that Naughty Dog earned that reputation the hard way, not by accident. I’ve…

Christmas 1999. My living room looked like a bomb had gone off in an electronics store—wrapping paper everywhere, the smell of turkey drifting in from the kitchen, and four controllers snaking across the carpet like digital umbilical cords. My cousin Dave had brought over his copy of Mario…

I was digging through a box of old controllers last weekend – you know, the archaeological layer where every gamer's dignity goes to die – when I found my original N64 pad. The stick's about as loose as my resolve around chocolate biscuits, but I held it anyway,…

The first time I saw a Pokémon moving around in full 3D, I nearly dropped my third cup of tea that morning. It was Stadium, obviously, and watching my carefully trained team of Game Boy sprites suddenly become these chunky, polygonal creatures with actual animations… well, it felt…