To talk about games in South Korea usually brings to mind legions of hardcore gamers playing StarCraft, or maybe MMORPGs such as Lineage, Ragnarök, MapleStory, Black Desert Online, Dungeon Fighter Online, etc… However, before the reign of eSports and online games, Korean gamers enjoyed a brief but very productive era…

There’s very little awareness of Computer RPG history in the West, the stories told rarely goes beyond “one day Richard Garriott made Akalabeth”. And that’s with everyone speaking English, developers still being around, many books on the subject (including mine), and impressive preservation efforts like emulators, the Internet Archive and…

An interview with Özgür Özol — Sadly, I can’t read Turkish. You, dear reader, probably can’t read it either. This means that we can’t properly play İstanbul Efsaneleri: Lale Savaşçıları — aka Legends of Istanbul: Tulip Warriors — a first-person dungeon crawler first released for the AMIGA in 1994. But what makes Tulip Warriors fascinating is…

A lot has been written already about the history of virtual worlds, but most texts usually focus heavily on MMORPGs. …

If you were interested in learning about movies, music, poetry, or any art form from China, you could easily find hundreds of books, articles, documentaries, essays, and videos on the subject. Sadly, if you’re interested in Chinese video games, the story is quite different. Asian game markets outside of Japan…