Much like blockbuster movies, triple-A games have gotten bigger in recent years. While this can still result in great pop-cultural products,...

Once upon a time, side-scrolling platformers moved only to the right. Then one day the Metroid and Castlevania franchises made their maps fr...

Top-down shooters are enjoying a renaissance as Helldivers joins the download-only ranks of Super Stardust Ultra, the '70s-set LA Cops and t...

The Wii U may be losing the now-gen console war (though seriously, you guys, it's a pretty good machine with really good games) but Nintendo...

The Order: 1866 is built almost entirely out of blocks that I love — alternate history, Nikola Tesla, Arthurian legend, class struggle...

It's easy to like the hot singles off an album, but hardcore fans live for the deep cuts. So consider Kirby a Nintendo deep cut, a character...

You know that old chestnut that drama is easy, comedy is hard? Well, shooters are even easier and funny games are nigh impossible.   At le...

The no-longer-late-and-lamented adventure game genre continues its revival thanks to the good folks who originally perfected it back at Luca...

Tomb-raiding heroine Lara Croft must often chose between two paths, but publisher Square-Enix faces no such restrictions. While the main Tom...

Much like the Khaleesi herself, TellTale has carved out its own kingdom in a fiercely competitive world.   With roots in the point-and...

Fan service gets a bad rap. So does Nintendo, at least lately. But two arguable wrongs make an undeniable right with the House of Mario's la...