Including a six-page interview with artist legend Roger Dean

Surviving the death of a publisher is no mean feat, but in December 2005 Retro Gamer crawled from the wreckage of Live Publishing and set up shop at Imagine. Now, against all odds, the magazine is celebrating its 50th issue.

For this milestone, I’ve penned something special and a bit different from my usual videogame making-ofs—an interview with Roger Dean. Inventor of the sea-urchin chair and cover artist for Yes, Roger’s best known in gaming circles for his imaginative and stunning artwork for Psygnosis games. However, as the interview reveals, his gaming-oriented output is more wide-ranging than covers for classic 16-bit titles.

Find out more about Retro Gamer and buy the current issue at www.retrogamer.net.

It’s back… And it’s hungry

Hello! Revert to Saved is back! Although some of you might remember the name from a column that was attached to some online Mac magazine whose name now eludes me, or as a standalone website that largely made fun of Apple, the new Revert to Saved will be far more wide-ranging. My aim is to use it to support the various publications I write for, and more besides. Therefore, over the coming weeks and months, you can expect succinct articles on gaming (including retro gaming), technology, music, and anything else that takes my fancy. I’ll also likely delve into the RTS archives and reprint some old stuff, along with putting online some transcripts of interviews I’ve done with various famous people, parts of which have been used in articles I’ve written (parts of the interviews, that is, not chunks of the people).