Crack-Up

I played a lot of very good video games in 2017.

Years of neglect are eroding gaming history. Cartridges rot in garages, companies hoard demos that they will never…

Dam is the first mission in GoldenEye. For fifteen years the fastest anyone was able to complete it as 53 seconds.…

The original Super Mario Bros., which was a pretty well-liked video game, didn’t tell players the button commands…

Inelegant and tedious, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is the anti-Nintendo game. In a year full of triumphs for the spunky…

Looking back at one of the greatest PC strategy games of all time

Jake “ChocoTaco” Throop was making a decent living as an educator in Chicago, but he’s decided to leave it all…

For the past week, I’ve been falling ever more deeply in love with Super Mario Odyssey. I like a lot of things about…

When the clock counted down the last 100 seconds, Injustice 2 Pro Series player Dominique “Sonic Fox” McLean knew…

Usually speedruns are about breaking the game to reveal hidden secrets that help players finish it as quickly as…