Hop Mania

Looking at the times video games tried to spark one up and failed, from Far Cry 3 to GTA V

The speedrunning festival Awesome Games Done Quick is not yet over but the greatest run of the event has already…

I experienced legit childlike glee upon first laying eyes on Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit during Nintendo’s recent …

Yesterday, Frog Fractions, the notorious 2012 browser game that is much more than it appears, came to Steam with a…

When Streets of Rage 4 was first announced, I was wildly skeptical. The little I saw didn’t immediately live up to…

The sixth annual Pikachu Outbreak is taking place this week in Yokohama, Japan, and 2,000 dancing Pikachus have…

Here’s a failed game concept that I really wish had managed to survive the gauntlet of development: Headcannon’s…

Moto Bug is the first enemy you ever encounter in Sonic. Is the series’ Goomba, in other words, and there’s one in So…

For decades, Sonic the Hedgehog has inspired an obsessive fandom that’s been difficult to separate from the uneven…

Batman: Arkham Knight spins one of the most ambitious video game stories ever told, and watching it thunder to its…