Timothy is writing this one because Sam point blank refuses to touch it. “A console RTS is an oxymoron,” he said, before muting himself on our call for ten minutes to go analyse Street Fighter frame data instead. Carl had to talk him back onto the topic three…

# The Last of Us Carl’s writing this one because Joe wanted to spend the whole intro explaining how Resident Evil 4 already did survival horror better in 2005, and Sam kept interrupting to talk about multiplayer hit boxes in Factions, and somehow nobody had actually said anything…

There's something magical about the weight of a Sega Genesis six-button controller in your hands. I mean, really—you pick one up today and it still feels like holding lightning. Not the thin, weightless plastic of modern controllers, but something with heft. Something that meant business.I discovered this back…

You know what still gives me goosebumps? That moment when you're holding the N64 controller for the first time, trying to figure out which prong goes where, and then Mario 64 loads up and suddenly everyone in the room goes dead silent. But that wasn't the game that…