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The ideal place for storing state secrets in the post Cold War era is on laptop computers, which are then placed in briefcases and left in random places upon the public transport networks of Southern England. In the Eighties it was a very different kettle of coconuts...

If you don't have the space for a full sized arcade cabinet, this could be the answer....

Do you have what it takes to be UK's best Street Fighter IV player? ...

Finally.It's been a busy couple ofweeks butwe're proud to announce 3 new designs.The first isinfluenced by the RTS'tank rush' tactic and comes in orange vinyl whichlooks totally sweet on both brown and white shirts...

Just a quick update to say that we will be attending 2 shows in the coming weeks. The first will be London MCM Expo onSat 23th - Sun 24th May 2009...

Since medieval times, children riding mountain bikes around housing estates have been the traditional English method of buying drugs, guns, and litters of dangerous dogs. Happily, across the Atlantic, things are very different...

Our mates over at ready-up.net have always been pretty fanatical about gaming. It's pretty much all they ever talk about which, frankly, is fine by us...

For an innocuous and perfectly likeable little mammal, lemmings seem to have attracted something of a bizarre press. For instance, it was once widely believed that they formed clouds and were rained down during storms...

Spring is here, anddespite the gloom in the daily news the glow of the shining sun and warm air dare topromisegood times ahead. So we bring you not one, but two new designs to accompany thosecheerful vibes. One features the giant brain of Salamander attacking pixellated ships, sweet!...

Technically this is week 4, but I've been away on an exotic cycling trip to the Isle of Wight. I know...you're jealous...

It's show time again and the first show we're attending this year is'Memorabilia' at the NEC in Birmingham. It'sheld over the weekend of 28th / 29th March and we've been making t-shirts in preparation. With any luck we'll have time to squeeze out a new design too...

I'm annoyed. Frustrated. In pain. Tired and drowsy yet worryingly satisfied. It's week 2 of my training and I've improved. Only ever so slightly, but still improvement nonetheless. I have managed to grasp at least 3 fighters in the form of Ryu, Ken and Fei Long...

I'm about to say something that might send shivers down your spine. In fact it's quite disgusting if I say so myself. I have never really got into any Street Fighter game. Now before I receive an abundance of Hadokens aimed at me, just read on...

By now I'd expect that everyone's had enough time to rush out and purchase the AWESOME new Street Fighter IV, find out about the wealth of new fighting strategies it provides, and in all probability, create massive sores on their hands through extensive gameplay. So... Reckon you're any good...

In 1984, 8 bit computers all over the country started running seed numbers through fixed algorithms, creating sequences of other, bigger, numbers that might, for example, be used to determine the fictitious characteristics of a fictitious planets within a fictitious galaxy...

The release of Street Fighter IV on home consolesis certainly creating something of a buzz. Could this be a return to form for the series?HD Remix was great but we totally expect Street fighter IV to put 2D fighters back on the map by taking the competitive vibe of the arcade into the living room...

The ZX Spectrum is a great technological milestone. Not only was it pretty much the first popular home computer, it contained - as the rainbow device on the right hand side of the machine will verify - the first gay microprocessor...

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With Street Fighter IV's long awaited release looming, those awesome guys over at Ready-Up have managed to get an exclusive interview with Capcom's Leo Tan - who among other things, assures the gaming world that the last six months he's spent honing his fighting skills will result in the "utter...

Defender has been described as 'quite possibly, the hardest significant game there is' by people who know about these things...

Yeah. Christmas has been and gone, and New Year's day was only 2 weeks ago but feels much, much longer...

We've been playinga lot of SuperStreet Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix recently and it's gotten us even more excited about thearrival ofStreet Fighter IV, coming toconsole in February. Due to much Hadoken-ing, old gaming injuries have started to resurface...

We're giving away 10 free t-shirts in association with those lovely people ...

Imagine the scary music from Jaws, but played on a cardiac monitoring machine in a hospital corridor. That is the enigmatic sound of all round minimalist Asteroids, track five on our journey through Buckner and Garcia's Pac Man Fever album...

Frank Krmel, of Atlanta, Georgia and Shigeru Miyamoto of Kyoto, Japan are unlikely to find themselves mentioned together in any sentence other than this one...

Due to popular demand, we've added two new colours to our range of lovely hooded tops. All our designs are now available in bright red and dark grey.

It was quite hard picking the next retro review. I've been buying some retro games from the internet, but I finally decided. I was going to review Crazy Taxi 2 actually. I'm not sure why, but it may be because I thought it would be better than the original. How wrong was I...

It was quite hard picking the next retro review. I've been buying some retro games from the internet, but I finally decided. I was going to review Crazy Taxi 2 actually. I'm not sure why, but it may be because I thought it would be better than the original. How wrong was I...

Here's one for you Sega fans. The Mega Drive pad has been given the pixel makeover with much chunky love. Hopefully, this will prove that we aren't biased towards Nintendo.

Dona Bailey was one of the only female programmers involved in gaming at the turn of the 1980s...