Pandemic Studios' Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, published in 2005 by LucasArts for the PS2 and Xbox, is in my humble opinion the single greatest sandbox-style game ever made. The design philosophy

In the days before satellite navigation, cellular phones, and GPS, every driver planning a cross-country voyage knew the most important thing he or she could pack in their car wasn't an extra change of

Welcome back my fellow geeks and gaming historians to another installment of "To Guide or Not to Guide", the series which looks at the processed tree corpses of bygone decades devoted to video

I know what you're thinking, but trust me, you want to read this one. "Why?" I know you're questioning. I questioned myself. But as a result of this questioning, I went on my own epic quest of

There were plenty of computer-related and game-related books published prior, but Doom well and truly blew the doors off the industry. Before Doom, you got books about playing different sorts of games.

Note: Unless otherwise stated, all images in this article are scanned by me from my own sources. Before I get into the meat and potatoes of this review, I just want you to take a few moments and look at

Note: Unless otherwise indicated, all images are scanned from my own source materials. You knew it had to be coming. Corey Sandler and Tom Badgett hit upon a winning combination for Bantam's "Game

Listen up, chumps: when it comes to gaming, you've got two choices. You can be a loser, or you can be a winner. Losers take forever to get anything done. They start games, they get a little ways in, they

Look at the cover of this book. Check out the valiant hero, with his glowing broadsword. Witness his female companion, dashing along after her protector as they cross the stone bridge together. Don't they

Note: Unless otherwise noted, all images in this article are scanned from my own sources. Game Informer magazine gets a pretty bad rap these days. It's the house organ for GameStop stores, maintaining

Note: Unless otherwise indicated, all scans in this article are from my own source materials, and (c) Prima Publishing. Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention please? It's my profound honor to

Note: Unless otherwise stated, all images in this article were scanned from my own collection. Role-playing games and strategy guides go together like pepperoni and pizza. There's just so much going on

Note: All images in this article are sourced from my own scans unless otherwise indicated, and are (c) 1995, SAMS Publishing. iD Software unleashed Hell in 1993, then brought Hell to Earth in 1994. Most

Note: All images in this article are sourced from my own scans, unless otherwise indicated, and are (c) 1989 Bantam Books, Inc. I still remember the day I saw this book sitting on the shelf at the local

I was an avid Super Nintendo fan in my youth. I still am, to be honest, but back when the 16-bit console wars were waging, I threw my lot in with Nintendo's console and never looked back. While my hopes

You want to talk about throwbacks to an earlier era? Let's march through history and take a look at one of the grandfathers of the modern-day, full-color, tome-sized books we call strategy guides. Back

Source: Who's got two thumbs and scanned those images? THIS GUY! (c) BradyGames Having been thoroughly insulted by BradyGames' treatment of Tomb Raider II in their Totally Unauthorized PlayStation Games

"To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end