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Nintendo has long cultivated a corporate image of wholesomeness and ubiquitous franchises and mascots, beloved the world over. Like Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory, the walls of Nintendo are high, and...
As someone who grew up playing The Sims, I loved how this bizarre world had so many possibilities. It’s the ultimate storytelling tool, and there’s no denying it, I love horror — so why would...
As a kid, I watched my older brother play The Sands of Time with fascination. I heard familiar names and saw recognizable architecture. Its historic setting reminded me of oral stories about...
There were a lot of games released for Nintendo’s little monster, the Wii. At the time of its original run, I missed out on a lot of them because I was a broke college student. Havi...
Last week’s update to the Nintendo Switch Online service was pretty lackluster, adding Congo’s Caper and Rival Turf for the SNES alongside Pinball <...
When footage of Sonic Frontiers was shared this month, a common response was that it looked like a fan-made game. Some meant it as a positive, but for most it seemed to express disappointment...
When I was younger, I would play all these inventive, creative, revolutionary video games and then run up to my room, open a notebook full of graph paper that I was ostensibly to use for science class...
I picked up Dadish 2 on a whim when the game was on sale on the Nintendo Switch eShop last year, despite not having played the first. I was drawn in by the simple style — bold color...
Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted is more than just a bunch of spooky ghosts and one space rhino’s utter obsession with us. It’s a story about trauma and watching various characters come to te...
Warframe: The Duviri Paradox came in like a dream. The game’s update trailers tend to do that. Warframe somehow seems to always add something you never thought possible in...
When Charlie Rosen, the band leader and arranger of 8-Bit Big Band, submitted the group’s cover of Kirby Super Star’s “Meta Knight’s Revenge” as consideration for a Grammy, he didn’t expect any...
K, a Final Fantasy XIV player, is a Scholar main with a heart of gold. They regularly hang out in the novice network, offering advice on game mechanics and answering lore questions for newer pl...
The best games “like” Total War are tough to pin down. Total War encompasses so many ideas across so many different settings that even it doesn’t exactly know what games are “like” <...
During one May evening, I stood in front of a tank and admired a shark with a gigantic nose. Flipping through the visitor book, I found charming comments from past visitors also praising the shark for...
It took nearly 30 years, but Live A Live finally saw a western release last week. The Square JRPG is unusual amongst its contemporaries for its episodic structure, but it’s far from...
Nobody wanted the Destiny Content Vault, but now we all know how it works — destinations and activities move into the DCV each year, to be replaced with newer content. There are currently nine strikes...
Destiny 2 has a problem. On the one hand, it is a game about shooting stuff and making things go boom. On the other, it’s increasingly a story about humanizing its various enemy factions...
Season of the Haunted is here in Destiny 2, and it’s real spooky — ghosts, recriminations, and regrets abound. Zavala, Eris, Crow, and Caiatl are all facing the mistakes of their past and lea...
Iron Banner is back in Destiny 2, which means a whole lot of Guardians are trying to complete the Iron Lord title. Doing that involves more than just playing a whole lot of the competiti...
I am currently on vacation. It’s been nice, I get to sleep in a lot, no one asks for my opinion on video game news (besides No. 3 Games Journalist Jeff Grubb), and I get to just play games rather than...