Island Designer

Japan is known for its video arcades, from the tiniest little collections of claw games in basements to entire…

I love solving a good maze on paper, but it turns out real-life mazes can be trickier to solve. The biggest change…

There’s plenty of games about fighting and hunting monsters, but not enough games about being a monster and smashing…

If ever you need proof that there’s no justice in this cruel society of ours, witness the plight of one Mr. Sonny…

It’s been so long since Tom Nook last bled us dry and left us to die beneath a mountain of themed furniture inside…

There are hundreds of missions in Shakedown: Hawaii, each one of them a bite-sized mashup of arcade violence and…

From its early days of promise to its heartbreaking failure, the Sega Saturn was a fascinating game machine. If…

It’s been a few years since we heard much from Éric Chahi, the French designer most famous for his work on Another…

Nintendo’s first tentative steps into the world of original downloadable games came in 2008 with the launch of…

New Super Mario Bros. U is the second-best 2D Mario game. New Super Luigi U is an incredible showcase of inventive…