The Gems

The word “microtransaction” evokes a vivid picture: A board room full of suited executives, salivating over profit…

Of all the free-to-play mobile games I’ve”donated” to, none received more of my hard-earned cash than Big Blue…

Believe it or not, Super Mario Maker has a ton of great courses floating around. Here is the system I used to find…

Granblue Fantasy is huge in Japan. Enormous. The game is a smash hit. It’s been downloaded over five million times,…

By and large, love is better with other people. And when saving all the love in the universe means shooting a bunch…

With various mature-themed series and the growing number of over-their-heads kids shows, it has never been a better…

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

Praising Mario is Missing is no way to impress someone with your gaming acumen. But it’s true; I thoroughly enjoyed M…

Have you ever done something so colossally stupid in a video game that you almost wish you had been drunk and/or…

It took me a couple of hours to burn through 80 levels in the first Angry Birds. In Angry Birds 2, getting to level…