In the late 90s, I'd often stay over at my cousin's house, where we'd spend some time (to say the least) playing his PlayStation. Even though he had a plentiful games library, we could spend hours ...

Maddie Fisher is a writer, journalist and game developer. She was born and raised on the east coast, having started working in games journalism over ten years ago. She tends to enjoy musical theater, ...

When our PSP pre-order went through on SCE official PSWorld site, we were surprised to see on the receipt that a PSP demo disc would be included with the package -- this was the first we had heard of ...

Oh how I miss the time when game demos were all the rage. When they were our one and only avenue into a new game, without massive marketing campaigns with tens of trailers or deep dives. These demos ...

Remember those PlayStation demo discs that were included with the magazines? Remember how you would play those demos ad-nauseum instead of buying and playing the full games they were advertising? Wish ...

Gamers of a certain age will remember a time when free game demos were a key part of video game marketing and distribution. It started in the early ’90s, when free shareware demos of games like ...