Simply Hard Platformer

The simple act of jumping can make or break a 2D platformer. In the first episode of Mechanically Speaking, Game…

Every year in gaming is full of shocks and surprises. This year had some really good ones.

Thomas Was Alone, Mike Bithell’s charming 2010 platformer about the inner lives of hopping geometric shapes, was an…

Pleasant. If I had to sum up Ori and the Blind Forest in one word, that would be it. The new Xbox One and PC…

Super Mario World, Sonic The Hedgehog, Crash Bandicoot, Banjo Kazooie — the number of platforming series and…

I was almost ten hours into Dying Light before I got my hands on a gun. It was an assault rifle, and I had to kill a…

Bowser has been around long enough that many gamers have found themselves wondering: is Mario's longtime nemesis…

"I started this game collecting trash," my character quipped late in Sunset Overdrive, "and now I'm collecting trash…

I dare say the Nintendo 64 is The Most Interesting Game System Nintendo Ever Made. It's interesting for a laundry…

You're going to want to keep track of six video games coming from New York University's Game Center. One of them…