The fighting game genre has many notable franchises. One of the earliest to earn iconic status is Mortal Kombat. It punched its way onto the arcade scene in 1992 and quickly found its way to the home console market, wowing players with at-the-time realistic visuals and controversial over–the–top gore. That controversial...
There’s an increasing chasm dividing the modern web. On one side, the commercial, monopolies-riddled, media-adored web. A web which has only one objective: making us click. It measures clicks optimise clicks, generates clicks. It gathers as much information as it could about us and spams every second of our life with ads,...
This is where the argument that piracy is also preserving games stands up. Although, it begs the question why games developers do not properly archive their software.