Nintendo’s Amiibo figures drive people mad. You might not suspect that from a glance at the Amiibo displays in Target or Toys R Us, where pl...

Not so long ago, I thought about visiting Japan once more. That idea fizzled due to a lack of time and money, but in the aftermath I decided...

Sony’s Greatest Hits line is straightforward and mostly beneficial: publishers shamelessly reissue their games, and any interested holdouts ...

No grade school class is complete without one kid fascinated by the paranormal. I did my best to fill that role. I read books on UFOs, the...

I discussed the Demo Demo PlayStation series here before, partly because it has the only publicly released bit of Bounty Arms and partly bec...

As you know, I don’t update very often. I’d like to have new stuff at least once a week, but the uncomfortable truth is that this website is...

I liked watching football more than any other sport when I was a kid. Part of that came from the dynamism of play, how it was possible for e...

Did everyone have a good Christmas? I certainly did, and that was partly because of a wonderful present from a friend who prefers to be know...

I suspect that Tricky Kick wanted to be obscure even by the standards of TurboGrafx-16 games. It presented a deliberately confusing front b...

Fester’s Quest is a curious sight in the landscape of NES games based on movies and TV series. The Addams Family wasn’t particularly promin...

The Sega Saturn turns twenty years old today, November 22. That’s going by the launch date in Japan and not the sudden and problematic Ameri...

Animation mistakes are inevitable. They’re also amusing. Some fans laughed over a braid whiffing through Elsa’s arm during that big musical ...

No video game ever made me cry. Nope, not one. Many games get to me in some way, because I’m a big, sappy, hopeless mark when it comes to fu...

I wanted to do this for a good while. Over the past month, Dinosaur Dracula readers have posted Halloween Mood Tables of all sorts. I ...

I remember it with perfect and disquieting clarity: a line from an early 1990s issue of GamePro. A writeup about a new arcade game stated “t...

I'm afraid that Rygarfield has not yet emerged as this century’s hottest new comic strip. At first I didn’t know what the problem might...

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...