The survival-horror genre has faced a revival in recent years, with popular releases in franchises such as Resident Evil. Dead by Daylight has transformed asymmetrical multiplayer, and many refer to…
March 14, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
Compared to the likes of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC, the announcement of Klonoa: Phantasy Reverie Series at the recent Nintendo Direct was probably little more than a blip…
February 28, 2022 | 12:00 EST
Jak and Daxter celebrates its 20th anniversary on Dec. 3. Compared to many of the previous era’s platformers, the series has aged with real grace. In fact, when most people think of PlayStation 2-era…
December 3, 2021 | 12:00 EST
Love it or loathe it (and there are plenty who do), Dark Souls is undeniably one of the most influential games of the last decade. Whether it's the "git gud" meme, the "X is the Dark Souls of Y"…
September 22, 2021 | 12:00 EDT
Death is one of the great motivators in this grand existence we have. Some of the greatest stories of all time involve death or dealing with it in some way. Whether it’s plotting someone’s demise or…
July 12, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
Ten years ago, on April 18, 2011, Portal 2 came onto the scene. The game developed by Valve was an innovative first-person puzzle platformer that continued the story of the main character Chell and…
April 16, 2021 | 12:00 EDT
The Elder Scrolls series, like it or not, is a franchise that has become a cornerstone of gaming culture. Bethesda’s rich fantasy world, gorgeous sandbox vistas, and charmingly buggy game design…
March 22, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
In 1996, Squaresoft and Nintendo decided to embark on a collaboration. Together, they would create an RPG blending Final Fantasy's turn-based combat with the Mario franchise. Super Mario RPG: Legend…
March 9, 2021 | 12:30 EST
In an ever more chaotic world, Stardew Valley has become a place of escape. Amidst everything from pandemics to political instability, more and more gamers have turned to titles which allow them to…
February 26, 2021 | 11:00 EST
The year 2000 was certainly a time to live through. We were on the cusp of a new video game generation, and many developers were putting out some of their most memorable titles. After two decades,…
December 31, 2020 | 01:00 EST
When was the last time you revisited the first generation of Pokémon? And I mean really played it—dusted off the Game Boy and everything, not play the remake or any other iteration of it. Sure…
December 14, 2020 | 12:00 EST
On Dec. 7, 2000, Mario Party 3 released in Japan for the Nintendo 64. 2000 was an odd year for the Super Mario series. It was a full three years past the last main series title, Super Mario 64, and…
December 8, 2020 | 01:00 EST
I remember the moment I discovered Meat Boy. I was on Kongregate, one of the largest Flash gaming sites on the web. Immediately, I was grasped by the name and the image. The image, now a super low-…
November 30, 2020 | 11:30 EST
Spike Chunsoft didn't become synonymous with "bizarre mysteries and gruesome deaths" until the mid-2010s when the Danganronpa series exploded in popularity in both Japan and the West. Unfortunately,…
November 17, 2020 | 01:00 EST
When Todd Howard stepped onto the stage at Bethesda's E3 Press Conference in 2015, the crowd went wild. Everyone knew what was coming. The most open secret in video games, the legendary Fallout 4,…
November 13, 2020 | 11:00 EST
I can’t imagine that even the most ardent Fable fans among you have this date on your calendar, or want to celebrate it. Oct. 26, 2020, marks the 10th birthday of Fable III, and as is pretty much…
October 26, 2020 | 01:00 EDT
“Hi! My name is Guybrush Threepwood and I want to be a pirate!” With that, 30 years ago, history was made, and adventure games as a genre went off on what was one of their weirdest adventures yet.…
October 16, 2020 | 01:00 EDT
Since the release of Pokemon Red & Blue in 1996, Game Freak have followed the philosophy that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. They found a winning formula of catching, evolving, and battling a…
September 22, 2020 | 01:00 EDT
Kingdom Hearts is known to be a confusing series, not for the faint of heart. With three main numbered entries, four (soon-to-be five) unnumbered main entries on console and three mobile games, two…
September 7, 2020 | 01:00 EDT
Love, betrayal, and insectoid alien thingies that infest you until you beg for death—StarCraft has everything that gives lasting power to any space opera. Since Blizzard's seminal real-time strategy…
July 27, 2020 | 12:00 EDT
I learned tennis from Mario Tennis. Don’t think I picked up a rack and hit the local courts, mind you. I was too obsessed with playing the game to go outside and play actual tennis. I was never…
July 21, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
Diablo 4 is coming. We don't know exactly when to expect it, and many of its details remain mysterious. However, we've seen a few elements, from skill trees to runes to the return of the druid and…
June 29, 2020 | 12:00 EDT
I was about 75% of the way through EarthBound when I realized I’d equipped my protagonist with a joke weapon. The Casey Bat is a reference to a slightly obscure Ernest Thayer poem from 1888. In…
June 5, 2020 | 12:00 EDT
For many gamers, the Souls series needs no introduction. Since the release of Dark Souls for Xbox 360 and PS3 in 2011 (a PC release would follow in 2012), the series has garnered an intense cult…
February 5, 2019 | 02:00 EST
Say you’re hired by a gang boss to assassinate an important man. You’ve done something like this before in many games. Most of these scenarios take place in a level where you’ll have to bypass…
September 30, 2018 | 02:00 EDT
There was a whole lot going on in the world of computers and games in the years leading up to the founding of Origin Systems in 1983. It was the golden age of the arcades, and Dungeons & Dragons…
April 19, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
On January 31st 1997, Final Fantasy VII, the Japanese role-playing game (JRPG) from Square Enix, was released for the PlayStation. Thanks to a major pre-release marketing campaign, Final Fantasy…
January 31, 2017 | 09:00 EST