Remember when I used to write about awful box art? Well, I actually updated the old gallery with an entry on Wing of Alnam . Lots of people ...

Sometimes I have to ask myself why I have a set of Darkstalkers novelty head-wings. The answer is complicated. It’s exactly what it l...

Drakengard 3 arrived last month. It’s a very strange game, abusive and self-mocking and technically graceless. It’s a monster that won me o...

[The following article discusses rape and other forms of sexual assault as they are depicted in video games. Please avoid reading further if...

You know what’s wrong with webcomics? They just don't have broad appeal. Name any webcomic, and you can find a great mass of people who ...

I’d like to talk about Killer Instinct and B. Orchid. Really. I admire Killer Instinct in a strange historical capacity. It’s not the re...

Some mysteries are compelling not because they’re important, but because they’re so weirdly insignificant. For one example, consider the kin...

Treasure’s Bangai-O games are wondrous menageries of destruction. They drop tiny robots into zoomed-out stages and let them wreak havoc with...

Gravity Rush  is my favorite game from last year. It was the reason I bought a Vita, and it's the reason I still own a Vita. It gives a ...

Falcom’s enduring Ys series was quite busy this week. The Vita received Ys: Memories of Celceta , a pretty extensive and extensively pretty ...

I never owned a TurboGrafx-16 during the system wars of the early 1990s. I doubt I was alone in this. The console was a constant third-place...

[Might Have Been tracks the failures of promising games, characters, and companies. This installment looks at Golden Axe: The Duel , release...

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...