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"I think some of the team were a little shocked by the tabloid response," says original GTA dev: "We'd made a game that gamers, critics, and the people actually playing all thought was pretty bloody good"

Grand Theft Auto's original developers reflect on hotwiring an open world gaming revolution

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"I think one of the reasons GTA was so well received was the amount of detail," reflects an original dev: "No one ever said no, or that something couldn't be done"

Time Capsule | Retro Gamer looked back at GTA's evolution from top-down open world on PS1 to setting the 3D standard on PS2 as the series readied a next-gen leap

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"Our bosses would have stopped us," if PS2's Spider-Man was made today, says director: "There were several months of us telling our bosses 'Don't look at it yet! Don't look at it yet!'"

Spider-Man 2 is still widely regarded as one of the best superhero games ever made – at the time, it was revolutionary

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"Instead of being 80% UFO and 20% on foot, we flipped it": How Destroy All Humans' sci-fi action oddity conquered all

Interview | Pandemic Studio alums go deep into the making of the kooky adventure that rocked PS2 and Xbox

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"It gave us more opportunities for variety": How Banjo-Kazooie helped the Nintendo 64 compete with PlayStation

Interview | Banjo creators Chris Sutherland, Ed Bryan, Gavin Hood, Gary Richards and Steve Malpass explain how the series evolved

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25 years since Jak and Daxter challenged Naughty Dog to find "the most beautiful thing we could pull off" on PS2, its writer "still misses" the action duo's world

Interview | Exploring the PS2 classic with Naughty Dog alum Dan Arey

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How Rayman 2 "offered 2D gameplay situations in a 3D environment" to deliver the best of both worlds

Interview | Ubisoft explores the making of one of its definitive PS1 and N64 platformers

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How Ape Escape's DualShock legacy lives on in today's PS5 games: "We'll never make it compatible with regular controls!"

Interview | Shuhei Yoshida and Kenji Kaido shed light on Ape Escape's numerous sequels, spin-offs, and recent Astro Bot cameo

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"The physical world gave us possibilities we didn't have before": How Grim Fandango's 3D environments revolutionized PC gaming in 1998

Interview | Grim Fandango creator Tim Schafer on the unforgettable action-adventure, both the original and remaster

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Dino Crisis is more than "Resident Evil with dinosaurs" – it shaped survival horror as we know it

Feature | An ultimate guide to why this Capcom fan favourite shouldn't be dismissed

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"I adored working on this level of the game, but it gave us serious problems" – The making of Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie

Interview | How Ubisoft Montpellier tackled the challenge of creating a PS2 game based on a blockbuster film in 2004

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Dungeon Keeper was meant to feel like "D&D, but you're running the dungeon", and it wouldn't have existed without some very surprising inspirations

Interview | Exploring the Fable creator's classic strategy series, from original concept to modern incarnations

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"It felt like a great, natural fit, it was just a matter of tuning the gameplay": How Shogun: Total War marched into new territory and laid the foundations for a strategy game empire

Every great military campaign has to start somewhere

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Mario is a sports star, doctor, and has even fought Sonic – 40 years after Super Mario Bros, it's the plumber's sheer versatility that's been the secret to success

The Magic of Mario | Mario's platform games are the core of the series, but the star has done everything from racing his rivals to throwing fists with icons like Sonic and Pac-Man – that adaptability has helped to ensure that the plumber's next outing is never far away

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Super Mario Bros' legendary themes have ensured they're unforgettable after 40 years: "Koji Kondo wrote Mario music with such light-hearted joy"

The Magic of Mario | The sublime sounds of Super Mario Bros have led to the creation of some of the most memorable gaming audio of all time

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Super Mario Bros' legendary jump helped define 40 years of platforming, Donkey Kong Country programmer says: "You had more control... There was risk/reward"

The Magic of Mario | From his Donkey Kong coin-op debut to the long-running Super Mario series, Mario has been defined by his responsive controls and eclectic abilities – Chris Sutherland helps to explain why Mario's mechanics are sublime

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The "elegant design" of Super Mario Bros levels has inspired devs for over 40 years, but it was Super Mario 64's 3D leap that was a "watershed moment"

The Magic of Mario | Mario could have all the appeal as a character, but without engaging worlds to explore he wouldn't be much of a star – Nintendo's divine design has been key

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40 years later, Mario is still the ultimate gaming mascot: "He's got that Mickey Mouse effect"

The Magic of Mario | A captivating character is one element that makes Super Mario Bros timeless – after all, you can't have Mario without the Mario

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Retro Gamer magazine celebrates the history of Shinobi

A legend returns

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"The very idea of making a prequel to Silent Hill wasn't good," says Origins and Shattered Memories designer: "That game told its story brilliantly through flashbacks, and there weren't really any unanswered questions"

Feature | Silent Hill: Origins and Silent Hill: Shattered Memories developers discuss tackling the difficult task of reinventing Silent Hill by going back to the series' roots on PSP and Wii

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Fatal Frame's iconic camera exists to force players to "look straight at something scary" says series creator: "We thought it would really bring out the scariness of the ghosts"

Feature | Fatal Frame series creator Makoto Shibata and producer Keisuke Kikuchi on how they delivered a trilogy of the scariest horror games ever made on PS2

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"Fate Of Atlantis felt like the movie we never got," says Indiana Jones and The Great Circle producer as devs reflect on the series' gaming legacy: "It really captured the spirit of the movies that came before it"

From the Atari to Xbox Series X and PS5, Indiana Jones game devs past and present discuss the archaeologist's immense and lasting legacy in the medium

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How Resident Evil 2 came to Nintendo 64 despite Capcom's doubts: "I recall having daily meetings and someone asked, 'Should we be worried?'"

Interview | Project director Chris Fodor reveals how small US developer Angel Studios defied the odds – and Capcom's own doubts – by squeezing Resident Evil 2 onto the Nintendo 64

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Resident Evil 2 still deserves its high praise 27 years on, but how did it turn a one-off PS1 success into an unstoppable horror franchise juggernaut?

Feature | In 1998, Capcom returned to the world of survival horror with an ambitious sequel that would propel the Resident Evil series into the stratosphere

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20 Years of the Nintendo DS: "If someone had told you in 2004 that Nintendo was about to abandon the Game Boy, would you have believed them?"

Game developers and media reflect on the hugely successful launch and mass appeal of the Nintendo DS, celebrating 20 years of the twin-screen handheld

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