Up a Cave

Link’s Awakening is not a challenging game, but it can be a little abstruse. Originally released for the Game Boy in…

At E3 in June of 2015, the game designer David Crooks was hanging out across the street from the L.A. Convention…

Whether it’s Link in Link’s Awakening, or Mario in Super Mario Bros. 2, Nintendo characters have strange dreams.

Everything that anyone has ever liked about a Zelda game happens in its most perfect form in the first 30-minute…

It’s been years since the original 3DS launched. There’s an updated version with better 3D , improved controls, and…

A massive storm rages overhead. Spend too much time in it and you’ll die. Enemies stalk a handful of ancient ruins…

Genre is mostly bullshit. It’s useful for discussion and for imagining where a certain game exists on the continuum…

If you put me in a room with ten executives and asked me to pitch Outer Wilds, here is what I would say: “It’s got…

After Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, the titular character went into retirement—both in the series’ fiction and real…

Sometimes, life presents you with a choice that you just know is going to Change Everything. It’s in these moments…