The Lost Island

The journey of StarTropics was as varied as it was challenging, taking players from the tropical islands of the…

According to Mychal “Trihex” Jefferson, there really isn’t much of a difference between speedrunning video games and…

Returning to his classic video game shop Neo Japan Games in the weeks after Hurricane Maria, Jerry Robles thought…

It was 2am in early September. Yuichiro Takahashi was in his room eating a Crunky chocolate bar, listening to the RWB…

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The feel is instantly recognizable. Whether the phrase “beat-em up” takes you back to Castle Crashers, The Death and…

Divinity: Original Sin 2 has a mode that lets players design their own Dungeons & Dragons-esque adventure inside the…

I’m fighting a losing battle. Again. One of the last steps between me and freedom from a magical prison island, a…

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

Pokémon games area all about players collecting small creatures and commanding them in battle, but in the end-game…