The creator of the legendary 'Konami Code' cheat, Kazuhisa Hashimoto, has died. The Japanese video game developer, who passed away on Tuesday at the age of 61, created the legendary cheat code that is ...

A new version of the classic Konami code has been discovered in Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness 25 years after its release. A sort of director's cut of the infamously foggy Castlevania 64, Legacy of ...

Forty years ago, a single code wormed its way into a home console port and became a legendary staple of the video game ...

A variant of the iconic Konami code has been found lying dormant in Castlevania: Legacy Of Darkness for all these years. Back when difficulty levels were rare and dying meant restarting a level, or ...

The Konami Code that many gamers first discovered in the mid to late-1980s has found yet another application, in a toy for toddlers from Fisher-Price The Fisher-Price Game & Learn looks like a cartoon ...

Central banks are better known for managing inflation by controlling the money supply than for their sense of humor. That's apparently not the case with the Bank of Canada, though, which used a 1980s ...

Kazuhisa Hashimoto, creator of the ubiquitous Konami Code used in multiple video games, is dead at age 79. Hashimoto is best known for inventing the ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A hack found in multiple video ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

We don’t know exactly who the webmaster for Conde Naste is, but whoever they are they obviously have a soft spot for video game pop culture. Visitors to the websites of Vogue, GQ, Wired or Easy Living ...

The Konami code is one of the most famous video game cheats of all time, but how did it come about? According to a translated chat between Konami's Kazuhisa Hashimoto and Shigeharu Umezaki, it all ...

Kazuhisa Hashimoto, creator of the ubiquitous Konami Code used in multiple video games, is dead at age 79. Hashimoto is best known for inventing the ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A hack found in multiple video ...

The creator of gaming’s most famous cheat code has passed away, as the video game world remembers the iconic hack. Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start. If you’ve ever entered ...