Gravity Rush is getting a movie, if you remember. It was announced four months ago, so that’s plenty of time for us to forget all about i...

There’s a lot to enjoy in Super Mario Bros. 2. It took all things Mario from a revolutionary but straightforward action game to an endearing...

It recently came to light that Rieko “Phoenix Rie” Kodama passed away in May of this year. Kodama was a pioneer among women in the game indu...

I am always intrigued by deleted scenes, especially when they’re presumed lost to time. It ties into my fascination with unreleased media in...

There I was the other night, playing Eco Fighters on the new Capcom Arcade 2 nd Stadium collection. Eco Fighters is a creative and unfair...

I usually can tell right away when I’ll like a game. It may take a little while to fully seep into place, but even then there's somethin...

I discussed my fascination with rental stickers a while ago, and I haven’t let go of it. As physical media grows scarcer and the last remain...

Cotton Fantasy arrived this month. It’s a cute, colorful, charming little shooter in all respects, and I said as much in my full review . I...

A woman knocked on our door one summer evening in 1992. She was circulating a petition against the planned construction of a huge arcade and...

Gosh, I really wish someone would make another Valkyrie Profile game. It's been over a year since Valkyrie Anatomia shut down, and tha...

So what's new with Bounty Arms ? Nothing major, as you might expect when it comes to a PlayStation action game canceled back in 1995. Ho...

Lately I've grown interested in football games of the NES era, specifically those developed in Japan. At that point football (that'd...

Clockwork Aquario is finally out. It's been a long wait, and I'm not just talking about the 28 years since the game went through so...

Fuga: Melodies of Steel belongs to the endangered species of middleweight video games. Neither a lumbering blockbuster nor a small-scale in...

Regular visitors to this site might have noticed certain subtle hints that I like the Gravity Rush games. How much do I like them? Well, I ...

My previous entry sunk deep into the history of Dino Land , a middleweight pinball-video game from Telenet Japan and Wolf Team. While it h...

Telenet Japan has a good reputation if you know where to look. Aided by developer Wolf Team and its American publishing arm Renovation, Tele...

The second half of Unsung Game Creators’ Takeru feature is now up! While the first part was modestly hopeful in chronicling the developer’s ...

Metal Warriors walked a difficult path. Fresh off the cult favorite Zombies Ate My Neighbors , developers Dean Sharpe and Mike Ebert conceiv...

The history of Sega mascots is rather short for a company with such a voluminous catalog. Sega’s first attempts at company spokes-things app...