Oh So Hero!

In the late 90’s, amongst a wave of all-new “Games for Girls”, Barbie appeared on CD-ROM for the first time. I was…

The best thing about the Paper Mario franchise is its willingness to take a peek into the internal lives of…

Gamer chairs have always struck me as an incredibly funny concept. In 2006, a desperate luxury car seat company…

If you played games in the early 2000s, you probably did so on a Game Boy Advance. First introduced in 2001 as a…

Chimera Squad is a fitting subtitle for the new XCOM game, because it’s a chimera of a game. Sure, it’s got XCOM’s…

Several decades ago, at the beginning of March 2020, when Bernie Sanders was still in the race for president, a…

The initial technological threat in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty is Metal Gear RAY. It is an “anti-Metal…

A remake is, by nature, an egotistical exercise. Choosing to revise and re-release an old work of art is looking…

It is important, in these trying times, to take it easy on yourself. That self-critical voice constantly berating…

Mere minutes into Half-Life: Alyx, I encountered a Strider. These behemoths cast ominous shadows on all who dare…