While writing for this week's Waluigi-themed Nintendo Force, I reached out to the developers of Semblance, Wandersong, Slime-San, Pool Panic, and Knight Club to see if they'd be willing to make some custom Waluigi fan art in their respectiv...

Just before launching the campaign for The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls, Edmund McMillen hit me up on Twitter to ask me if I had any advice on how to help him promote his new game. He seemed a little unsure of how well it would do. This is ...

We're just one week away from Captain Toad's leap to the 3DS and the Switch, and I have high hopes that the intrepid explorer will do well in those new territories. Recent hits in the Character-Puzzle genre like Monument Valley 2 and Steph...

Ask someone why they chose something, anything - from what type of sandwich to eat, to who they voted for in the last election - and chances are their reasoning will boil down to one statement "It felt right." We may like to think that we'r...

While the hype for Fallout 76 has reinvigorated interest in Bethesda's post-apocalyptic franchise, the news has had the unfortunate side effect of eclipsing some of the best mods...

It can be pretty uncomfortable when you realize that your tastes don't align with the direction that your favorite fantasy franchises are headed in. As for me, I'm used to that feeling by now. At age 41, I've been through at least three ent...

[Art by Jayspring] Todays detailed reveal of Super Smash. Bros. Ultimate was unlike any other in series history. Almost from the start, series creator Masahiro Sakurai made it clear that we shouldn't expect too many new characters in the ga...

[Spoilers for this past season of The Walking Dead.] In terms of his moral development, Carl Grimes was pretty far along the day that his life ended. According to Kohlberg, the social contract stage is way above the punishment avoidance sta...

A few months ago, I unveiled a rumor that seemed too weird to be real. I was vindicated in the end, though I understand why some were skeptical. They haven't played Runner3 yet, so they don't know how silly the game can be. They also don't...

I was a huge fan of Battle Chasers when it was first released. A big reason for that is it was the first comic I ever read that seemed to love my favorite games as much as I did. Artist Joe Mad was just as in love with SNES RPG Chrono...

Pocket Rumble has been in the works for longer than some of our readers have been alive. Development on the game was just heating up when its team was on Sup Holmes back in 2014, a couple of years ahead of its Early Access releas...

I've been providing free advice to the developers of Streets of Red for a little while, so I have something of an idea of what it took for them to get the game a Nintendo console. It's been at least three years of work, starting with a fail...

If you're looking for a detailed preview of Super Meat Boy Forever, Peter has you covered. This post and video are more of a supplement to his post. I happened to stumble upon him playing the game at PAX, and before you knew it, we were ch...

Some poor shlubb recently went off on a well-known indie game publisher for putting out Minit, stating that -- among other things -- the game's retro graphics were evidence of its irrelevance. To me, that's sort of like saying that the aco...

It's easy to be pessimistic for an interesting video game. Too often, the games that sell are the ones that take few risks and don't attempt to provide the player with anything emotionally or intellectually complicated. Chances are, the ga...

People often assume that lighthearted comedies all lack depth, or that their creators don't work just as hard as those that specialize in other genres. This is part of why we so rarely see a comedy film win an Oscar. Knowing this makes me ...

In part 2 of our PAX East 2018 interview with Suda51, we get into stuff that only Suda super-fans will probably care about. Among other things, we talk about what Jessica Nigri has been up to lately, James Gunn name dropping Suda on the Gu...

We posted the exclusive news about No More Heroes: Travis Strikes Again's adventure mode last week, but we never got to post the video where that news originated from. So here is part one of it! Thanks to Gordan Freeman for getting it edit...

For the past three or four years I've been helping game studio Secret Base to connect with other people in the industry while offering general PR advice for Streets of Red: Devil's Deluxe, which just released on PS4 and Switch yesterday. I...

We may have already recapped our PAX East coverage for this year, but I plan to keep dribbling out time-insensitive posts for at least another week. Case in point, some small talk with Matt McMuscles from the Two Best Friends Play series. ...

These days, there are just two kinds of secrets in video games: the ones that you can uncover in a few minutes using Google, and the kind that remain totally anonymous. The internet has erased many of the world's mysteries, and the "unconf...

[Update: Rami just reached out to me for additional comment and correction regarding the nature of The Playground. I think that in the original post I made it sound too much like Rami and his partners are intending to somehow replace the P...

While checking out Runner3 at PAX East this year, I noticed that one of the new NPC's appears to be a named after Dan Adelman, a former Nintendo of America honcho who was instrumental in getting the original Bit.Trip games published on WiiW...

Up until today, the last time I spoke to anyone at Yacht Club Games face to face was in April 2017. They were just finalizing their plans for King Knight's campaign, the last of the game's single-player updates. There was still a lot up in ...

Grasshopper Manufacture just turned 20 years old, so this morning I gave Suda51 a copy of No More Gentleman and a birthday cake while I sang him a song. He seemed touched. Video of this once-in-a-lifetime event is coming soon, but in the me...