Tag Archives: PS1

Tales Studio shut down by Namco Bandai

Tales Studio, the independent developer responsible for the Tales series of RPGs since 1995’s Tales of Phantasia, has been closed (opens in new tab) by parent company Namco Bandai. But Tales fans can take comfort in the fact that upcoming titles in the series haven’t been cancelled – however, with …

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The Top 7 Games that broadened our musical horizons

Game music has been a passion of ours roughly since, oh, 1985, but in the past 10 years, it’s come to mean something more. Don’t get us wrong, we still love the beepatronic music of the 8- and 16-bit periods (and the wave of chiptune artists it inspired), but the …

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Gamings most difficult decisions

Gamers want choices. It’s all very well to throw us into the midst of a few dozen faceless representatives of Generic Evil, Inc and hand us a machine gun (in fact, that’s pretty much the entire design brief of several (opens in new tab)classic (opens in new tab)games (opens in …

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