A few weeks ago, Ubisoft announced that it had decided to ditch video game manuals in all of its Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 titles. The company said that its decision was based on the desire to be ...

One of the last reliable supporters for the concept that video games should have instruction manuals appears to be backing off. Nintendo has released its first games on its new console without ...

While many gamers will pick up Astro Bot digitally on the troubled PlayStation Store, Astro Bot’s physical edition is an adorable product. Underneath the game disc, you’re treated to a cute ...

Instruction manuals died out as video games introduced tutorials instead. But now games such as Tunic and The Banished Vault are bringing them back Players of a certain age will no doubt have fond ...

I was thinking the same thing, as the harsh reality of the video game manual was that most of us would read it once, if not at all. This is because most manuals were basic instructions mixed with ...

There was a time when purchasing the latest and greatest game meant tearing into the package to find both the software itself (usually accompanied by a cardboard contraption and unnecessary packing if ...

I opened up my copy of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD yesterday and aside from the game disc it was depressingly empty, which describes exactly how I feel every time I pick up tellingly ...

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) game manuals are a rarity in this modern world, as it has already reached 30 years in the present, and most are lost in time. However, one massive ...

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