The Konami Code originated with the late Kazuhisa Hashimoto, the developer of the NES port of Gradius, released in 1986. While playing and testing the game, he found it to be too difficult, and if you ...

Kazuhisa Hashimoto, inventor of the most famous video game code of all time, the Konami Code, has died at the age of 79. In honor of the former Konami producer and the famous code he left all of us, ...

Kazuhisa Hashimoto, the man who invented the "Konami code" cheat that became pervasive in video gaming and pop culture, has died. To use the code, players would press up, up, down, down, left, right, ...

The Konami Code—up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Start—does wonderful things to games like Gradius and Contra. But it also does unexpected ...

Malcolm loves games. Be they trading card games like Magic: the Gathering or Yu-Gi-Oh, or tabletop wargames like Heroscape and Warhammer 40K, Malcolm's got a firm passion for all things interactive.

Stardew Valley's enormous 1.6.9 update launched on all platforms earlier this week, including console and mobile. While developer Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone gave players the lowdown on the contents of ...

Think Hollow Knight: Silksong is a little too easy? Want an alternate game mode that will really put you to the test? Well, there’s a secret way to crank up the difficulty. By entering a special ...