Princess Parent

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

Super Mario Run, Nintendo’s first mobile game, follows the standard Mario formula: Princess Peach gets kidnapped…

It’s the first of April, but the games listed here aren’t jokes. On the contrary! They’re actually quite good, in…

Anime fandom is a fortress of obscure slang, iconography, and inside jokes. After 16 years of fandom, I'm quite…

At one point, Mario & Luigi: Dream Team was going to have a volcano. It'd have been quite the spectacle: hundreds of…

I always found Metal Gear Solid 4 to be not a brilliant game, but a fascinating one. A mad ideologue glutted with…

The PSP role-playing game Heroes Phantasia takes nine popular fantasy and sci-fi anime—Blood+, Read or Die, My-HiME,…

Many ruder-than-scientific words exist for "homosexual"; the faceless internet crams my inbox with them every day.

I found Tevis Thomson's lengthy critique chronicling the decline and fall of the Legend of Zelda franchise to be…

I'm here in Vegas, not just for the DICE summit, but for Duke Nukem Forever. I get to play that now — and write…