Daaaaaaaaamn, Nintendo, Back At It Again With the Sexist Design I love Fire Emblem. I really do. For all the plans I have for articles that will seem to contradict that, Fire Emblem is the…
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Examining the Best and Worst of Romance in Games Happy February! Valentines’ Day recently came and went, and Anna and I decided to celebrate in the traditional fashion—arguing! We have pretty different opinions on romance…
Super Smash Bros. Melee and Ultimate Can, and Should, Sustain Each Other Going Forward Genesis 6, the latest in the long-running Super Smash Bros. super-major series, came to a close at 3 a.m. Eastern on…
Big Predictions for the Biggest Night in Games Correction: Don’t expect to see The Last of Us Part II Thursday night, as Naughty Dog recently tweeted that they don’t be showing anything from the title at…
Disclaimer: This game is super long and I have so many thoughts about it, and there’s just no way one article can encompass all of those thoughts. Red Dead Redemption 2 might very well be…
Meet the Newest Generation of Platform Fighters The “platform fighter” genre has existed for decades, even if the specific phrase to describe them didn’t reach mass relevance until years later. For the longest time, it…
Cuphead Animation—the Good, the Great, and the Amazing Before we begin, I need to give a huge thank you to Cuphead animator Jake Clark for posting some of his wonderful pencil tests of the game’s animation…
Getting it Right, Day One Update: An excellent new story trailer for One Piece: World Seeker was released at Tokyo Game Show 2018, detailing two new, game-original characters. The first is Isaac, the warden of the…
Strap In for 35 Minutes of Pure Nintendo Bliss Update: The Direct has been delayed following the recent earthquake in Hokkaido, with Nintendo stating that it will provide an updated date and time “in the near…
The Player Doesn’t Always Need to be the Center of the Universe Most games try to make the player feel significant and essential to the world presented. No Man’s Sky does the opposite, and that…