Super Console Kid

Titles like Puyo Puyo Tetris and Street Fighter X Tekken prove that bringing two successful franchises together can…

Mario’s power as an icon is defined by his versatility. The plumber doesn’t just jump: he fights, he drives, he…

I tried out the SNES Classic, and found that Nintendo has made some small but meaningful improvements to it over the…

In December of 1999, at the tender age of eleven, I received Donkey Kong 64. It was a birthday gift from my parents…

Developers make games, and speedrunners break them. Those goals might seem to be at odds, but Owlboy studio D-Pad…

Nintendo fans have spent years frustrated that the Metroid series, once a pillar of the company’s console lineup,…

Got a pile of old NES carts? Want to play them on your HDMI television? Recently, a number of solutions for that…

There’s a certain strain of Nintendo fan that’s probably wondering, these days: What’s up with Wario platformers?…

Thundercat is a bassist who blends video games into everything he does, and whose latest album situates references…

Just because the Wii U was an afterthought for me, though, doesn’t mean it went ignored by the rest of my household.