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Injustice 2 just came out and it looks like NetherRealm Studios really pulled it together. For single player superhero smashing,...
Netflix and Konami announced a new Castlevania show. Well that’s surprising! Netflix’s track record with anime isn’t stellar (I didn’t care for Knights of Sidon...
One of these days I’ll get around to really composing myself on how I feel about The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. But right now I’ll just rant a bit on a s...
Virtual Reality has been one of those dreams which, like time travel or the lightsaber, was never born of necessity or ingenuity. We wanted it before we thought...
The generic AAA design killed the horror genre: the best we get today are horror-themed action games. Against those, Alien: Isolation slithers onto the market a...
In the early 2000s, Capcom’s in-house risk taker was a little offspring of its more deviant designers called Clover Studios. They’ve since become famous for blo...
Could any video game character survive the abuse Sonic the Hedgehog has taken from his own games? Maybe the better question would be: would we accept that abuse...
When was the last time you picked up a new game, and had absolutely no idea how to play? For me the sensation is getting less and less frequent. If left trigger...
My puzzlement with the Super Mario aesthetic is something I’ve been brewing for a while. I know this discussion sounds confrontational, but I think the Super Ma...
Star Wars games always have this timid aspect to them, almost an instinct to preserve their history against the meddling of video games. You don’t get to schmoo...
For the record, I didn’t grow up in Nintendo’s stable – I grew up grazing in the pasture next door, in the wild fields of early 90s computer adventures. Cyan Wo...
Try to imagine playing a game and believing that you are actually, physically and emotionally, present in the game’s world. Imagine an NPC death affecting you l...
When the first vector scrawl skulked across an experimental supercomputer in the early 50s in the form of the most roundabout way to play a tabletop game like T...
Out of the uncertain age of the arcades, video games in the mid-eighties aspired to become franchises. But the prevailing idea was that you were paying for a ne...
A theory called “dominant strategy” tells us that given an ultimate means of victory (like a chainsaw) a player will never use anything else (like a fork). This...
A good licensed game like Star Wars Battlefront is not so much the holy grail of unrequited geekdom it used to be, the Arkham series, Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mo...
Despite shooters and celeb-schlepping sports titles currently making the most noise in the games industry, in the scheme of gaming history, they are notes only ...
