Fortress Era

If you’ve followed video games for more than five minutes, you’ve seen players and creators clash.

Anime fandom is a fortress of obscure slang, iconography, and inside jokes. After 16 years of fandom, I'm quite…

Super Smash Bros. finally came to the Wii U last month. Creative types that they are, avid fans have been having a…

Assassin's Creed Unity is my least favorite major Assassin's Creed since the 2007 original. It's also the first Ass…

Ever since the 16-bit era, there have been side-story games that help flesh out the world of the original Gundam.…

Eight years. Eight long years of video games, from the Xbox 360's 2005 release to today, the dawn of the next…

Inspired mostly by Medieval architecture and the Middle Ages, fortified stone castles in video games are always…

It used to be so simple.

Up for consideration as the saddest noise in the world: the sound Mickey Mouse makes when he dies/gets knocked…

The world of video games is full of mighty people—people whose mere whims control what video games we play, what we…