It’s too easy to pick on old issues of Electronic Gaming Monthly. By the early 1990s it might have been North America’s biggest multi-format...

My parents warned me when I asked for a Super NES back in 1991. It was a scam, they told me. Nintendo would quit making games for the Super ...

It’s a good time to be a fan of Trouble Shooter . Or Battle Mania . Or whatever you might call the two comedic Sega Genesis shooters that pu...

Well, the Gravity Rush 2 Contest turned out much better than I expected. I had seven whole entries from four different people! And they were...

I recently grew fascinated with those rental stickers often seen on old VHS tapes, DVDs, and video games. For many they're an annoyance,...

In my last Little Things, I forgot to mention other small details that I like about Legacy of the Wizard . For example, I like the portrait ...

Video games diverge when it comes to falling. A harsh, semi-realistic adventure like Dark Souls shows no mercy to anyone who drops too far ...

Gravity Rush 2 is little under a month away, and I prefer to pretend it’s already here. I’m running a Gravity Rush contest for a few more ...

America’s anime fans were pretty busy in the late 1990s. We weren't satisfied just watching Robotech reruns on Toonami; we fervently dev...

Gravity Rush 2 was delayed, and I needed to compensate somehow. Sony wasn’t diplomatic about their reasons, either. Both Final Fantasy XV ...

What was the first thing you bought on eBay? It’s an inane question, but I expect it’ll come up more and more often as the decades lurch o...

Many canceled NES games exist only on paper, whether it’s a sheaf of old design documents, a press release, a magazine’s rumors section, or ...

If your life and its myriad tiny embarrassments are anything like mine, you went through a time when you weren’t just too old for toys—you w...

Picking a favorite game from The King of Fighters is a daunting task, considering how damn much there is of the series. It saw yearly iterat...

Buying video games isn’t much fun these days. It’s not the games themselves; despite the modern industry’s gaudiness and the near-extinction...

CyGames announced several titles at their recent showing, and Lost Order is the most intriguing. That’s Lost Order , not to be confused wit...

My mother often complained about the video games I played as a kid. Sometimes she engaged in the usual parental griping about my dodging hom...

I’d say that Adventures of Dino-Riki hates us all, but that's a harsh accusation to level at a goofy NES shooter where a smiling cavema...

A short time ago I said to myself, “I don’t have enough Panzer Dragoon junk,” and that bugged me more than it should have. Panzer Dragoon, S...

Valkyrie Anatomia: The Origin makes me doubt myself. I enjoy it, but I wonder if that’s because I’m hardwired to enjoy any Valkyrie Profile ...