[Image by Fred Wood] Compared to the Wii U, the Switch is doing fantastic, with the fastest selling Smash game of all time, plenty of broad-appeal 1st party hits, and 3rd party support the likes of which Nintendo hasn't seen since the SNES ...

[Art by Jorge M Velez] Not a lot is known about the now-scrapped game that was once called Metroid Prime 4. Some rumors say it was being worked on by multiple teams across the globe, with Nintendo directing them towards a unified vision as ...

With Super Mario Odyssey, Nintendo came close to maxing out on the concept of being anyone you want to be. While that made for a one-of-a-kind experience within the Mario universe, there were actually a few other games that used the same ho...

Writing "Best of the Year" lists makes me feel pretentious and self-aggrandizing. That's probably because these lists operate under the pretense that the writer is able to both assess an entire year's worth of games and make some sort of ab...

Nic Rowen's review of Rain World seemed sympathetic but sad, which makes sense given that the game does a lot to invoke those two feelings. The bad news is, he was also feeling pretty disappointed when he said "I feel so badly for...

Shovel Knight turned five this year, and it shows no signs of slowing down. He's sold over three million copies and counting. There are not one, not two, but six different books that tell his story in one way or another. His ...

I love Smash Bros. I love it when it's fair and I love it when it's tragic. I love the way it sounds and I love the way it feels. I love the way it transforms non-stop carnage into a silly, joyous romp. I love how it invites my imagination ...

Screencheat has fared very well on non-Nintendo systems since it was first released in 2014, but now that it's on the Switch, it feels truly at home. Four-player competitive gaming really came into its own on consoles with the N64, th...

We live in a time when most people forty years old and younger were brought up adoring media that was designed to function as toy commercials, childhood companions, and near-religious texts at the same time. When I saw Michael Bay's Transfo...

I don't know what's going on with the Neo Geo Mini. Shortly after I got my hands on one, SNK announced that an upgraded Holiday version of the hardware would be going up for pre-order in the coming days. That's not a good sign. I have to gu...

When I first saw that the Kickstarter for Cheap Golf ended with 666 backers, I figured it was just a wacky coincidence. Now that I've played the game, I'm not so sure. On the surface, it looks like a smart and silly take on an Atari 2600 s...

In the past, she was in a band with Superman. In the present, she's Captain Marvel, one the most powerful space-fairing super heroes in modern film. How the heck do you top all that? If you're Brie Larson, the answer is simple - become one ...

The developers at Secret Base have just launched a free patch for Streets of Red: Devil's Dare Deluxe that includes four new bosses as well as online leaderboards and new language options. They aren't charging more for this extra content t...

According to Irish folklore, Samhain is the day on the calendar when doorways between the land of the living and the land of the dead and other regions of the supernatural open at their widest. Over time, the day morphed into what we now ca...

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is just two month away, which means that prior games in the series that aren't named Melee are about to fade into the sunset. Though Brawl will probably always remains the black sheep of the competitive scene, Sma...

Dang, John "Jax" Parrish is a very strong man. Sure, he's always been jacked, but compared to his original appearance in Mortal Kombat II in 1993, I'm guessing the dude has put on at least another 20 pounds of muscle.  That's jus...

There were so many ways that it could go wrong. First of all, would it even find its audience? On the surface, The American Dream looks like just another first-person shooter. Would that be enough to kill it right there? Would the people wi...

[Header art by Goomrrat, Katsutank, Street Fighter Legend Akiman, Torini Tea and Hyousen] About four days ago, Twitter user Haniwa posted a short comic about Bowser using the new crown power-up from New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe ...

I've been clamoring for a Rhythm Heaven fighter for Smash for a long time now and nothing would make me happier than to hear that opinions have flipped and that series is mounting for a comeback. If Isabelle was revealed for Smash rig...

Team battle Smash with items turned on can be just as competitive and skill-reliant as the standard 1-on-1 no random variables matches that are common in the tournament scene. Just imagine a fight between two pairs of evenly matched f...

According to legends, the original Mortal Kombat was made by just four people, not counting the actors who served as the game's playable characters. That's more people than you see on the development team of your average modern indie game....

The only thing more diverse than Grasshopper Manufacture's library of games is their fan base. In the time since Suda51 left Human Entertainment, the game studio responsible for the first Fire Pro Wrestling and Clock Tower games, he's creat...

As a huge fan of all iterations of Street Fighter III, I've spent many hours contemplating the game's glorious, expertly crafted animation. I knew that some of it had to be rotoscoped (an animation technique that involves drawing over live-...