Years ago I once played a demo for Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver. Likely on PC as it would be a few more years before owning a PlayStation console. Whil...[Read More]
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III stumbled so Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 could soar. Triumphantly so. Black Ops 6 possesses a kind of opulence I haven...[Read More]
Oh, boy. This is a blast from the past. It was the summer of 1998 (maybe 1999, tough to say – I’m old), and I remember working at Waldensoftware in Fa...[Read More]
There’s grace in not wearing out your welcome. And I know few platformers that grow more enjoyable the longer they stretch on. Variety is the sp...[Read More]
38 years ago when Metroid released on the Famicom in August 1986, the revelation that Samus Aran is a woman was anything but novel. The assumption tha...[Read More]
Were you ever good at Desktop Tower Defense? I certainly wasn’t. But that didn’t stop me from soaking up hours of it on Kongregate or what...[Read More]
Fifteen years feels like a long time to be trapped in this endless cycle of life and death. Yet that’s how long FromSoftware’s abyss of gr...[Read More]
Hauntii is one of those wonderful games that isn’t overshadowed by its intoxicating aesthetic. Undoubtedly, Moonloop Games’ debut title is...[Read More]
Reflecting on Braid‘s significance, one has to play with time. The landscape of 2008 was vastly different for gaming, for most media. In this mo...[Read More]
It would be difficult to conceptualize SaGa Emerald Frontier to those, like me, who have no experience with the SaGa franchise. After the long, windin...[Read More]
Grandia, unfortunately, has not had the staying power of numerous other long-running JRPG series players likely recognize. Unlike Final Fantasy, Ys, D...[Read More]