Kyle Orland

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) may be the go-to event for event for upcoming games, but some of us oldsters prefer the simple bleeps and bloops of the past. So we decided to make the ultimate list of old-school gaming hot spots — here’s a sampling of the best retro roadside attractions and classic gaming conventions going on ’round the country.

(See Electronic Gaming Monthly #227 for full article)

Still selling your used video games for cash or store credit? That’s so pre-Internet. Trading used games with gamers from around the world is where it’s at today, and a bevy of sites have popped up to let you do just that. We looked at a few of the biggest game trading sites to see how they stacked up. 

(See Electronic Gaming Monthly #228 for full article)

When you think about video games, ivy league institutions like Harvard don’t exactly spring to mind. That might start to change, though, with this recent creation of the Harvard Interactive Media Group. Part academic consortium, part gaming club, the group is part of a new wave of interest in organizing gamers on campuses nationwide. We talked to HIMG President and Harvard Senior Benjamin Decker about bringing together the Harvard gaming community.

(See EGM #222, pg. 36 for full article)

The story is the basis for countless daytime TV commercials: Two guys are playing a game when one of them says, "Hey, I could make a better game than this." The pitch is usually for some game-design college that may be your nonaccredited path to living your dream of designing games as a career. For at least one level designer at Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series developer Neversoft, though, the path from couch to designer didn’t involve college-it just involved playing one game really well.

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With several leauges, dozens of national-level tournaments, hundreds of thousands of bucks in prize money, and multiple upcoming television deals, professional gaming is poised for the big time. Yet many gamers can name more pro bowlers than pro players. So we picked five fearsome console competitors whose skill and passion bring them this close to becoming household names. Study their collectible cards and figure out how to follow in their footsteps…

(See Electronic Gaming Monthly #208 for full article)

Living forever in the gaming record books is easier than you think

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Are those console-giveaway offers on the Internet the real deals, scams, or just plain hassles? We put one to the test to find out.

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