You know what’s a good website? The Cutting Room Floor. It’s all about stuff hidden in video games: unused characters, deleted scenes, alter...

We have an absurd amount of anime at our disposal online. Even beyond the numerous shows that companies stream for free, there are those dev...

It won’t be long before academia and pop culture expand and entwine so much that courses are taught in video-game history. When the lecture ...

[What follows spoils pretty much every ending in Pandora’s Tower. If you want a more even look at the game, you’ll find my review here . I a...

Flash Hiders and Battle Tycoon rarely draw notice in the history of fighting games. The two titles were the now-defunct Right Stuff’s ...

Well, that’s kind of rude. Sure, the title heroine of Sylphia , a 1993 Compile shooter for the PC Engine, may not seem all that social...

There’s a good deal of talk these days about how video games depict women, from the latest Game Developers Conference scandal to that Femin...

Toren Smith passed away on March 4. Many remember him as a pioneer in the manga-translating world, and there’s a lot to his story: how he sc...

You most likely know that 1up is closing. The site endured numerous layoffs and cutbacks in recent years, and it was just sold to Ziff-Davis...

Alisia Dragoon was overlooked quite often in its day. The game's North American cover, with its bikini-armored amazon and gawking orcs, ...

It’s hard to dig up any details on Anchor . I can’t find any production sketches or promotional art from the film, and I’ve never seen so mu...

Real shame about Quintet, you know? It started so well. Masaya Hashimoto and Tomoyoshi Miyazaki played big parts in making Nihon Falcom game...

It’s time to confess something: I liked BloodStorm . Yes, that BloodStorm . Strata’s 1994 arcade fighter that tried to outdo Mortal Komb...

Our story begins with Athena , perhaps the most detested game that SNK released on the Nintendo Entertainment System. While most of SNK’s ea...

It’s unfairly hard to dislike Lupin III. He’s one of the most appealing staples of the anime industry, and perhaps that’s due to his inspira...

Westone’s Monster World IV is full of adorable details. There’s the smile that heroine Asha wears after filling a bucket with water. There’...

A wise observer once described Gainax as two diametrically opposed anime studios in one. Good Gainax takes chances and creates interesting ...

Much can be written about Diehard GameFan. Originally a catalog for Dave Halverson’s Diehard Gamers’ Club, the magazine launched in 1993 and...

Let's discuss Undercover Cops , Irem’s gem of an arcade brawler from 1992. It follows the rules of a Final Fight clone, but it adds all...

Nintendo conquered the second half of the 1980s with video games, but the publishing industry certainly helped. While Nintendo Power stands ...