As someone who takes pride in the video game library I’ve built over time, the current game industry presents more than one existential threat to the way I prefer to engage with it. Ballooning prices, game-key cards, GAAS, an overreliance…

This was an appointment I don’t know why I made at Summer Game Fest, as I very well could’ve done without it. Let me come clean. I was one of the backers of the original release of Yooka-Laylee having been…

As someone that had a lot of good moments with the PSP, I’ve always loved Patapon. Whether it was with its initial release or its remaster nearly a decade later, my memories of cute little critters yelling “pata-pata-pata-PON” are good…

Since I was a Genesis kid in my early formative years as a gamer, sidescrolling beat-em-ups–no matter how good or bad–were essential to me. Whether it was Streets of Rage or Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: The Movie, beat-em-ups were part…

With Virtua Fighter 5 REVO waiting in the wings with a yet-unannounced release date, and Soul Calibur II sitting there on the NSO GameCube app right from launch, Street Fighter 6 is the centerpiece of the best start a Nintendo console has ever had for fighting games.

Dosa Divas was one of the SGF Play Days appointments I was most looking forward to as I finalized SmashPad’s schedule. Developed by Outerloop Games, known for last year’s unique and stylish Thirsty Suitors, Dosa Divas looks like another winner…

I had the power of Tanjiro Kamado and anime on my side last week, thanks to SEGA bringing Demon Slayer: -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles 2 as a part of their Summer Game Fest lineup. Announced at the end…

It may not have as well known a name as Tetris, but if you mention Lumines around a crowd of gamers, you’ll probably get a head nod from all of them. It’s just one of those puzzle games that doesn’t…

As a ‘90’s gamer who chose the Genesis over the Super Nintendo in my childhood because black is cooler than gray and Sonic was cooler than Mario, you can bet I was over the moon when Shinobi: Art of Vengeance…

We learned how to play Magic: The Gathering and interviewed Wizards of the Coast Senior Game Designer, Daniel Holt, about the development process of this epic crossover!

Looking back at the Summer Game Fest Showcase, while there were all sorts of awesome-looking video games, only one of them really made me pop with excitement, and it was because we saw that Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds would really be…

Just as much as any genre in media, video games can be all about the vibes, and that’s exactly what I got when I first saw Mixtape during the Day of the Devs Showcase during SGF this year. That said,…