New Super Mario Bros. Wii DS

This year was a pretty damn good one for new video games. It was also great for old ones!

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

Hail, ye Nintendo faithful! Loyal folk that you are, a Wii U rests beneath your TV. The console never quite hit its…

Over the decades, Japanese developers have churned out a mind-boggling number of video games. Some are good, and…

The fact that Nintendo’s next video game machine, the Switch, is built for single-screen gaming is a dark lining on…

Japanese game magazine Famitsu is celebrating its 30th anniversary. To mark the occasion, the publication polled…

A couple of weeks ago, while buying Final Fantasy IX and Breath of Fire III, I had the dreary thought that I’ve…

For the 10th year in a row (!), I’ve tallied the games I played in the past 12 months and have counted the ones I’ve…

If games are a truly interactive medium, then it stands to reason that the people who play them have an unusual…

In video game years, Mario Kart 8 is already middle-aged yet remains virile. It maintains a healthy population of…