I haven't really been paying attention to coverage on New Super Mario Bros. Wii.  This isn't because I'm uninterested in the game, quite the opposite really.  Nintendo had me the moment they said "four-player Mario co-op," so really there was nothing more previews could offer me.  At best they would simply reaffirm that I had to get this game, and ( Read more... )

One of the most heart-wrenching moments of retro gaming is when you find an obscure title that's completely awesome, and then discover that its been more or less forgotten by its creators.  Such is the case with Rocket Knight Adventures, a platformer for Genesis by Konami.


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Often times you will find things on the Internet that almost seem too good to be true.  Most of the time they really aren't.

Still there are times you will see something that seems too good to be true, but really hope it is anyway.  Such is the case of a video from an alpha build of Marvel: Ulitmate Alliance that featured Samus Aran and Link as ( Read more... )

Love, hate it, or think it's overrated, there's no denying that Final Fantasy is one of the biggest video game franchises in the world.  Equally undeniably is that with every installment the series the name becomes increasingly ironic.

Why did Square pick such a title that would make the sequels seem a little silly?  Hard to say really.  Getting ( Read more... )

There should be a law that people who don't actually play video games are not allowed to talk about them in public.  This is because when said people do, they manage to make idiots out of themselves and cause the people who do play video games to face palm in disgust ( Read more... )

Video game piracy has been a bit of a hot news item, what with all copy protection software that seems to be designed to cause honest gamers to pirate their own games.  People forget that piracy has nibbled at the heels of the video game industry throughout most of it's existence.  Even cartridges, whose very design is practically a form of copy ( Read more... )

When the economic recession first hit, famous writers swore up and down that video game industry was recession proof.  Several months and a couple highly publicized studio closings later, writers seem to have taken the opposite stance and now think that the industry is headed for a meltdown that would make the Great Crash of '83 look like a slow ( Read more... )

As much as I like indie games, I cannot claim to love all indie games equally.  One large section of the genre which almost never registers on my radar are flash games.  I'm not entirely sure why this is.  It's possible there's a part of my brain that still equates flash games with "variations on killing the Duck Hunt Dog ( Read more... )

Sometimes if might seem like I have a finger on the pulse of the indie gaming scene, well okay that's a lie.  I certainly talk about it a lot, but I don't quite follow it on a day to day basis.  Otherwise I would have found out that there is new news about Fez a hell of a lot sooner.


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Long, long ago, when gaming was in its adolescence and the NES reigned supreme (outside of Europe and Brazil, anyway), the idea of any game being done in 3D was totally awesome.  Had messages boards been around then, you could have posted on any one of them something like, "Hey, what would Castlevania be like in 3D?" and people would reply, "It ( Read more... )