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When you hear the phrase ‘retro games’ what comes to mind? Sega consoles? Snes? Amiga, or Commodore? Those aren’t retro enough. Musee Mecanique is a privately owned collection of antique arcade machines and mechanically operated musical intstruments. Here are a few images from the collection found on Games Radar:
Seeburg Ray-O-Lite (1936)

Looks better than Duck Hunt […]

According to Variety, 20th Century Fox will be making a movie version of Electronic Arts’ popular life simulation, ‘The Sims’. The movie will feature real life actors instead of animation. No word yet on who the actors or director will be. Brian Lynch will be writing the screenplay and John Davis(Eragon) will be the producer. […]

Tired of surfing the net or can’t think of what to write for your next blog post? Here’s another timewaster to keep you occupied. Amberial is a simple game that can help you break the monotony. The object of the game is to guide the ball using your left and right arrow keys to the […]

It’s official, the Zerg are back. Blizzard has just announced StarCraft 2 at the Worldwide Invitational in South Korea. The three races (Protoss, Terran, Zerg) are back with new units and new abilities. The sequel uses a custom 3D engine that is supposed to come with realistic physics. The game will come with a single […]

Linden Lab is getting ready to make the voice feature for its popular game ‘Second Life’ live on May 23. Users can test the beta version of the voice feature by going to the beta area of Second Life.
Early reports by users who have tested the voice feature claim that the signal is clean and […]

The games of today have incredible graphics and yet they sometimes leave you with an unsatisfied feeling after playing. If you ever find yourself missing the old school games like Pong all you need to do is point your browser to Arcade.com. Arcade.com lets you relive the glory days of arcade by letting you play […]

Square Enix has confirmed that remastered versions of Final Fantasy 1 and 2 will be made available for PSP users in the US. FF1 will be released on June 26, and FF2 will follow on July 24. The Final Fantasy series will be 20 years old this year.
The anniversary editions will feature enchanced graphics, […]

I was playing Desktop Tower Defense when I happened to look at my wife’s computer and saw she was playing a game called Boomshine. It looked fun so I tried it out. Boomshine is even simpler than the tower defense game but is equally as addicting. The objective is to get the biggest chain reaction […]