Casual Classics

The newly unearthed history behind one of the most offensive video games ever made

On the wall in Mike Lawton’s classroom rests a cardboard cut-out of a Black man. It’s not Martin Luther King Jr. or…

May 22, 2020 marks the 40th anniversary of a moment that shook the video game industry and profoundly changed the…

After years of wishing and hoping, Nintendo finally added a selection of Super Nintendo games to its Switch online…

A couple of months ago, I found myself in a drunken argument about Neon Genesis Evangelion.

In one of Syrmor Sherazee’s best videos, he asks a long-legged bird about what it was like to be homeless.

Neo Geo, as a brand, has always seemed to be about extravagant, weird ideas. First it was an arcade machine that…

Lock a crowd of Super Smash Bros. fans in a room and make them agree on what they want in the series’ next game and…

In the first years of my career as a games writer, I got used to a certain reaction from my parents’ friends when…

Rudy stands in front of his regal mahogany bookcase stocked full with classics like the Iliad, the Odyssey, and Arabi…