Game nostalgia remains a powerful motivator for players returning to titles over a decade old. Counter-Strike 1.6 still maintains 50,000 daily users, fueled by emotional attachment and shared memories ...

RuneScape experienced a surge of popularity over the 2025 holiday season. While fan nostalgia for a game that is now 25 years ...

Kurko Mods is creating Nostalgia 64, a full N64-style Banjo Kazooie game with worlds from other Nintendo 64 titles. Players will explore over a dozen worlds from games like Super Mario 64, Donkey Kong ...

Whether you're deflecting blaster bolts, slicing through endless battle droids, or falling to your death because of the jump mechanic, this game oozes early 2000s charm. Aspyr's modern re-release does ...

The first Nintendo Direct presentation for 2022 -- and arguably the first major showcase event for any platform this year -- seems to have been largely well-received by fans, but it's hard to deny ...

Though the pandemic is not over yet, I'm pretty sure one of my strongest memories from it will be the experience of replaying Command & Conquer and Red Alert—102 combined hours so far. I started in ...

With its grand opening this week, Nostalgia Lounge Arcade Bar, 8484 Mentor Ave. in Mentor, invites the public to relive old-school memories while playing retro games. Owner John McEndree’s focus — ...

Live service video games are starting to get nostalgic about their humble beginnings. Part of the appeal of live service games is their ever-evolving nature. Players have reasons to return to the game ...

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...

Released in 1977, the Atari 2600 sold nearly 30 million units worldwide. Commonly associated with the second generation of video game consoles, it was in production until the early 1990s. As of 2023, ...

Those two seconds felt like an eternity as I sat at the kitchen table hunched forward in suspense, my future waiting to take form. I’d always dreamed of owning a sailboat so I could spend my days asea ...