Fire Emblem. One of the most puzzling Nintendo franchises for sure. Most people's first experience with the series was Super Smash Bros. Melee on the GameCube, which included Marth and Roy. Neither of their games released out...

In two months time, Animal Crossing: New Leaf will celebrate its 5th anniversary as arguably the most successful title in the franchise. It's moved more than 11 million copies, spawned its own spin-off in Happy Home Designer --&nb...

Kickstarter may have lost a little of its luster since the campaigns of Double Fine Adventure and the Ouya, but one of the most successful game crowdfunding campaigns to date resulted in Pillars of Eternity, a modern throwback to isometric ...

Maybe the strongest praise for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor necessitates pointing out its most glaring flaw. The game was a darling, managing to please fans and earn critical acclaim. All of that in spite of the fact that the final b...

They're killing gods with peach pits. An ill bull was the motivator for my PAX West demo with Assassin's Creed: Origins, as he was a worshiped deity in ancient Egypt. Peach pits are apparently toxic when ingested. This livestock was on the...

Accel World vs. Sword Art Online: Millennium Twilight released in the west on July 7, 2017 for PlayStation 4 and PS Vita, but now it's headed to PC as well as Accel World Vs. Sword Art Online Deluxe Edition When? In four days, on ...

If your regular Pikachu isn't good enough for your Ash role-play in Pokémon Sun & Moon, you'll soon have the chance to get a unique Pikachu wearing Ash's signature hat--one of them anyway. Codes will be available to download one ...

One of Destiny's strengths is its ability to highlight and modify certain activities so playing the same content for the umpteenth time isn't quite as stale as one might expect. Destiny 2 is looking no different in that regard, and Bungie h...

[Update: It slipped through my ever vigilant eyes, but you'll be able to enjoy adventuring in Skyrim on Steam as well as Xbox One this weekend.] If you've just learned what video games are this morning there's a chance you don't own a copy ...

Just the other day, I caught Nioh out of the corner of my eye and wished I had a clone to level up my character during the day, as I worked, so I could finally dig into the Defiant Honor DLC. I'm way behind, to say nothing of the heightened...

Last year, CD Projekt Red went on record to say that it wouldn't put out a PlayStation 4 Pro update for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, noting that it was prioritizing Cyberpunk 2077 and Gwent. The studio has since changed its tune. The game will...

My history with the Monster Hunter series is painfully, regretfully abrupt. I attempted to get into it years ago, on PlayStation Portable, but bounced off so hard that I can't even confidently say which installment I tried. That experience ...

Over the weekend, Square Enix hosted a Liveletter presentation for Final Fantasy XIV, which showcased a number of upcoming changes for the game as well as a preview of the massive 4.1 patch, "The Legend Returns." In a surprise visit the CEO...

The Final Fantasy XV team has been busy. Gone are the days where you ship a AAA game and be done with it -- now you have to optimize patches, free/paid content, and spinoffs. Final Fantasy XV is busting out nearly every facet of t...

Allow me a moment to tell you about a quaint little town known as Rainy Woods. Nestled in nature and surrounded by forests in England, Rainy Woods is a happy village with happy people living amidst charming architecture from the Middle Age...

Gearbox's PAX West 2017 panel just finished, and while most of it was about the efforts of the company's publishing arm, it had hints about the development side. We didn't get to actually see anything on Borderlands 3, but president and Int...

Back when we heard Grimoire cards wouldn't be making a comeback in Destiny 2, most people breathed a sigh of relief (or kicked some dirt in frustration that one of their talking points about why Destiny is bad is going away). But there was ...

Sunless Sea and its predecessor Fallen London were very niche games that fit right into all my little nooks and crannies so nicely. The world was creepy, the writing dark but humorous, and most of all for me it was immensely original. So wh...

Failbetter Games' sequel to Sunless Sea launches today on Steam Early Access and GOG Games in Development. Sunless Skies is a top-down RPG with a literary twist -- think FTL with more story. It takes place ten years after Sunless Sea, ...

As we've already seen, Square Enix is going all in on Final Fantasy XV. They spent enough time and money making it, so why not release multiple spinoff games, support the core release through oodles of DLC, and create more ports? Yet a...

During 2015, I managed to start my relationship with the English Ys PC games. From there, I fell in love with Falcom's other works. With XSEED bringing Ys Seven to Steam, GOG, and the Humble Store, it felt like I would witness another ...

It's really easy to skip story cutscenes and dialog in an MMO. Whether your friends are ahead of you or you're racing for world first in a new expansion, the pressure is on, and the extreme length of the genre doesn't help if you only have ...

With the recent release of Fire Emblem Heroes on mobile devices, Lucina from Fire Emblem: Awakening will be included in the game and was updated with a new design and new artwork. But it turns out a potential teaser was included within her ...

Anime streaming service Crunchyroll held its annual Crunchyroll Expo this year, and there was a fair bit of news released for otaku to chew on, particularly ones that are fans of Type-MOON and the Fate franchise. One such announcement ...

The live-action Japanese drama about a father bonding with his son in Final Fantasy XIV is making it to Netflix worldwide soon. The streaming service has Final Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light scheduled for September 1 (along with a bunch of movie...