3D collectathon platformers occupy the same lane for me as comfort food or an AC/DC album. They’re reliable, and no matter how much time passes, I can always return to them and feel familiarity. Of course, the best 3D platformers that leave their mark on history end up feeling more…
Hamster Corporation has announced that the classic Namco arcade game Air Combat 22 will be heading to its Arcade Archives series for modern platforms. As the sequel to the industry defining Air Combat, Air Combat 22 expanded the gameplay by allowing players to select different aircraft to carry out their…
Limited Run Games is back with a brand-new lineup of merchandise based on a classic Sega title. To honor the 25th anniversary of Jet Set Radio, you can now get a whole slew of shirts, plushes, trading cards, and keychains to show your love for Beat and the crew. While…
When I wrapped up Kirby Star Allies I felt like I’d gotten plenty of joy, yet not without some concerns and quibbles — you can read all about those in my review. One thing that really stood out about the game’s identity was how celebratory and evocative of its history…
When you start playing a Japanese RPG you don’t usually expect something calming – typically there are burning villages, amnesiac heroes and world-ending prophecies within the first hour. Gust’s Atelier series has long worked against those assumptions, delivering an experience quite unlike any other JRPG out there. The aim? Building…
It’s a special day for a member of Nintendo royalty, as everybody’s favorite Purple Pikmin, Bowser impersonator, and all around meme machine Reginald Fils-Aimé celebrates his 57th birthday today. Reggie joined Nintendo in late 2003, but broke into the gaming consciousness — and all our hearts — with his E3…
Nintendo has truly been banking on (and making bank with) exploiting nostalgia the past few years, releasing both the NES Classic Edition and SNES Classic Edition to enormous amounts of demand — and artificial supply shortages. The two miniature consoles took gamers through some of the greatest games of the…
Back in March 2015, the late Nintendo President Satoru Iwata revealed a new “dedicated game platform” during a Q&A presentation for investors, code-named NX. Back then it was just a way to show them, and fans, that Nintendo wouldn’t be leaving the traditional gaming space any time soon, but little…
I rarely jump into sweeping generalizations, but it’s safe to say pretty much everyone knows PAC-MAN. Mazes, dots, ghosts, and one mouth-flapping yellow disc mix together to make one of the most iconic video games ever, to the point you can play it on most things with a screen one…
Time as a game mechanic has always been my jam: travel, manipulation, stopping, you name it. The Longest 5 Minutes manages to meet me on two fronts here, with jumping back into your character’s past being the core of the gameplay and beating a clock. Thankfully, there’s no need for…
I could never get into Metroid as a kid. As cool as I thought Samus Aran was, and try as I might, it was just a tough series to get into. It might have had something to do with the sprawling map that I felt the need to memorize mixed…
When games involve time travel it’s not hard to get me on board, yet I somehow managed to miss Radiant Historia the first time around. Funnily enough, that’s making me appreciate its story all the more, what with how it deals with the importance of decisions made and writing wrongs…
After months of speculation surrounding Nintendo’s next system, at the time codenamed NX, the company finally broke the news in October 2016 that its next console would officially be called the Nintendo Switch. Following an enticingly intriguing three minute trailer, fans were asked to wait an excruciating few months to…
It takes a lot of brass to shake up the strategy game formula, so who better to take on the task than Image & Form? Originally released on the 3DS, SteamWorld Heist has made its way to plenty of platforms between then and its present Switch release. Throwing out overhead…
Thirty years ago today, a scrappy young company called Squaresoft released “Final Fantasy” for the Famicom. Clearly inspired by tabletop titles like Dungeons & Dragons, it was one of the first video game RPGs to take the world by storm, letting players adventure through unfamiliar lands, meet friendly faces and…
