Of Jumps and Platforms

It’s been a little over two decades since Super Metroid debuted on the Super Nintendo, and it’s lost none of its…

Disney is at its best when it abandons pretense. Every great Disney animated film has that moment when the wheels…

If waiting seven years for the third game from Ico and Shadow of the Colossus creator Fumito Ueda has taught us…

Most NES games have not aged very well. The Nintendo Entertainment System relied too much on antiquated principles…

It was E3 2000 when I nearly lost my shit. The sequel to one of the best games I’d played on the PS1, Metal Gear…

Lovely Planet Arcade’s bright world and cheery soundtrack are a trick. They’re simply delightful bells and whistles…

Between interviews, video shoots and encounters with mascots, I played a bunch of games at and around E3 last week.…

SMB3’s entire development team consisted of just eleven people: Miyamoto and Tezuka as directors and designers, four…

F-Zero GX was a critical hit that, 13 years later, stands as a racing game classic for Sega and Nintendo. It was the…

In 2015, you liked reading about Fallout 4 and The Witcher 3. You liked lists of top games. You mourned the passing…