Revisiting One of Mario’s Greatest Adventures Everyone is enjoying Mario’s latest excursion (you can read David Silbert’s excellent Super Mario Odyssey review here), and they should be! Super Mario Odyssey is a marvel in open-world game design, presenting players with…

Around the World in 80 Power Moons To say that Super Mario Odyssey had big shoes to fill is an understatement. In 2007, Super Mario Galaxy essentially took the franchise someplace it had never gone before: outer space. As crazy of an…

Spider-Man, The Last of Us, and So Much More Well, that was thrilling. Sony just finishing giving their 2017 Paris Games Week conference. While the showcase was light in terms of new announcements, Sony still came to bat with plenty…

Tiny, But Deadly Difficulty in games has had a long and storied history. During the eighties and nineties, a hard difficulty was an integral part of the experience. The Legend of Zelda unleashed players out into its sprawling world with nary…

A Cartoon Golf RPG Stands Out From The Pack Over the years, I’ve become largely disillusioned by big budget “AAA” video games, despite their rapid and impressive advancements in recent years. Every time I see a shining example of how…

All About Them Bells A credible twitter account recently posted that we’re due for another Animal Crossing themed Direct 10/24 at 8 PST. This Isabelle-themed account (New Leaf’s dutiful secretary) had previously been inactive for all of 2017, only to…