Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was officially unveiled during E3 this morning at EA Play. While there are bound to be plenty of observations taken away from the game based on its 15-minute, unedited gameplay segment, I have a few burning thoughts… and they’re not great.
Today, we set the stage for our two-part celebration of the 25th anniversary of EarthBound. Part one? Playing through the game for the very first time!
Size Doesn’t Mean Everything The reason that Super Smash Bros. works is because Nintendo has a vast catalog of intellectual properties to pull from. As I stated when I started this challenge, I haven’t played…
An OoT Speedrun Like No Other For the speedrunning community, no game is as popular to run and watch as Ocarina of Time–save for (maybe) Super Mario 64. With seemingly as many glitches as there…
What Happens When You Play a Game Decades After Its Height? Here’s something that everyone on this planet has experienced: Somebody is telling you a story with great enthusiasm hoping to elicit a certain response…
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…
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…
Hi. You probably don’t know me. Without getting too into it, I’m a friend of the Punished Backlog team. The other day, as we were discussing our beloved Patriots heading to another Super Bowl, halftime got brought up. Rumors are that Maroon 5 may be putting on a tribute to SpongeBob creator Stephen Hillenburg, which lead to a controversial opinion within our ranks on the matter. One thing led to another, and I started telling everyone which halftime show was best, but it got too complicated and turned into a full-length article and now we’re here. Fun times.
Looking Back on an Impressive Year for Games 2018 has come and gone, and boy, what a year it was, for better but also most certainly for worse. Like the years before it, what you…
