I've been not-so-patiently waiting for Aquaria and Spelunky designer Derek Yu to come out with a new game, and I'm sure many of you can say the same. In recent weeks, he's been tweeting out images of untitled 8-bit games with the hashtag #U...

Mario's arms are pinned back like an airplane, anime-style, as he runs around the Ancient Gardens that surround Peach's castle. In front of him is a Roomba-like disc floating friction-less like a hockey puck. Occasionally it stops to read h...

Just the other day, I was telling Ray that I'm liable to spend real money on cosmetic items if they're for a game I'm super into and intend to play long-term. He concurred. That first purchase is dangerous, though -- it opens the floodgates...

Years back I attended my first Symphony of the Goddesses concert. It was perfect timing as the 25th anniversary was happening and I was in the process of replaying every Zelda game to date. It all sort of just came together during that...

Bungie opened up The Farm, Destiny 2's social space taking place of The Tower, for just one hour this afternoon. It was a good time to become familiar with the new environment, hang out with friends, and play some really janky soccer. Or if...

Arc System Works' Dragon Ball FighterZ kind of swooped in and stole the thunder from several upcoming fighting games (Marvel Unlimited especially), and part of that is due to Arc's beautiful engine, which was master-crafted for ye...

My fellow Hylians, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and wh...

Warframe has blown the heck up since I last played it years ago, back when it was only on PC and still finding its footing. Over the weekend, Digital Extremes showcased Plains of Eidolon, a substantial expansion launching this year that pus...

As officially announced on-stream at HCT Shanghai, Blizzard's next Hearthstone expansion is Knights of the Frozen Throne, complete with an ascent up Icecrown Citadel, 135 new cards, Death Knights (as you'd hope and expect), and Lifeste...

While at Anime Expo this weekend, I got some lovely iPhone shots of the upcoming Bloodborne Hunter Figma and the Portal 2 Atlas and P-Body Nendoroids. They weren't as cool as the Digimon Digivolving Agumon/WarGreymon prototyp...

Newcomers Marina and Pearl, which aren't fully replacing Callie and Marie (as they're still confirmed to be part of the game), will be hosting Splatoon 2's first Splatfest -- but there's a twist. It'll actually take place a week before...

I never thought I'd get remotely invested in the universe of Splatoon when I first previewed it over a year ago, but here we are, and I'm following along with official Squid Sisters fan fiction. Today's Nintendo Direct showcased some more o...

Blizzard promised that 2017 would be a good year for supports in Heroes of the Storm, and they're making good on that promise with Alexei Stukov. Yes the StarCraft Infested Terran is back, and although he doesn't seem like a dedicated heal...

Much has been said about Nidhogg 2's art direction. Much more will be said. I understand  the complaints, but for my part, I think the fleshy visuals have an odd charm to them -- sort of like those gross-out close-ups in Ren & Stim...

Blizzard has opened pre-orders for StarCraft Remastered and you know what that means: it's not far off! The iconic real-time strategy game (and its Brood War expansion) will be back in our lives on August 14, 2017 looking and sounding bette...

It's been long enough since I last bought a game compilation that I'm one-hundred percent on board with Namco Museum. It also helps that 1) it's coming to Nintendo Switch, which is where most of my local multiplayer currently happens, and 2...

Gorn is a good-ass name for a video game about clobbering buff gladiators until their meaty heads fall off. Honestly, I'm not sure it can be topped (that's your cue to do your thing in the comments, gang). This is another collaboration bet...

Nintendo is doing a line of GAMER BAGS with LeSportsac, which is actually an American company, despite the French affectation, though it is owned by a larger Japanese company. The sacs are coming to Japan on July 19 and will be released sta...

E3 is over, and now it's time for a relatively quiet July. I mean there's a few big games coming out like the Final Fantasy XII remake, and uh...wait. Splatoon 2! How could I forget. Nintendo is gearing up for one of their most massive...

The Game Boy Advance SP is a masterpiece of a system. While the Game Gear had the backlight years before it, this was the first time I was able to play a Game Boy without attaching a gross worm light accessory to it, and man, did the G...

One of my favorite parts about the Super Smash Bros. series is the build-up to the next game and all the wacky screenshots Nintendo cooks up along the way. Poring over every last image brings me to my youth, back when I'd do the exact same ...

Lots of people who I just know would dig The Talos Principle slept on it. Whenever puzzle games come up in conversation, I try to sell them on the idea of a philosophical first-person puzzler about AI and eternal life, and the words never s...

The "father of Final Fantasy" Hironobu Sakaguchi is still making Japanese RPGs, albeit no longer with Square Enix, but with the company he founded in 2004, Mistwalker (Lost Odyssey, The Last Story). As we reported last week, the company wi...

The thing I love most about E3 is the spectacle of it all. Videogame conventions surely started in awkward cavernous rooms lined with 8x10 tables, and now we have ten foot tall dragons front and center. Many booths this year had giant full-...

Konami's attempt, in its post-Hideo Kojima future, to squeeze a little more blood out of everything the Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain team built is frustrating. It's not necessarily bad, but it does feel uncanny, just a little bit wr...