If you enjoy classic role-playing adventures that provide hours of addictive and virtually bug-free entertainment, you should check out shareware titles Geneforge and Avernum from Spiderweb Software.

Who doesn’t remember Commander Keen or Wolfenstein 3D, two great shareware games that helped many a gamer get into gaming. Today we celebrate those games with a gallery of eight of the most ...

While Doom's success had been a great validation of the mail order shareware model, the PC was changing in ways that made that model an increasingly poor fit. The traditional publishers started to ...

Publishing deals in the video game industry are generally kept secret, with terms hidden behind non-disclosure agreements and the threat of legal fallout. However, in the realm of AAA publishing, it’s ...

While EGA was widely supported and easy to develop for, many shareware programmers harboured ambitions to one day make games that didn't look like sick. As before id Software led the charge with the ...

Hey,<BR><BR>anybody have any recommendations for some nice small freeware / shareware games. I'm mostly looking for the small quick time wasters. It doesn't need to be 3d. Some nice puzzle / strategy ...

My favorite unappreciated DOS game of all time is Pyro 2, written by Michael O'Brien who went on to be head of Arenanet (Guild Wars) though I didn't find that out till recently. You play a pyromaniac ...

Gamers who are old enough to remember the PC experience before AOL brought dial-up internet access into everyone’s homes will probably also remember shareware. My family had dozens of these discs and, ...