Somehow, we’re well into the second half of January 2026 already, which means another batch of new titles joining the Game ...

The onslaught of indie Metroidvanias has seemingly left the more traditional old-school action-platformer behind in favor of ...

The latest batch of Nintendo Switch Online games is here, and it's a murderers' row of 8-bit era greats. The new additions include the infamously difficult Battletoads from Rare and the oft-overlooked ...

Oscar Gonzalez is a Texas native who covered video games, conspiracy theories, misinformation and cryptocurrency. A professor once told me that one of the defining moments of becoming your own person ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The Epic Games Store has been refreshed with a new free PC game. And this week, EGS users on PC ...

Super Mario Bros. 2 is seen as the black sheep of Mario games series. Released in 1988 for the NES and in 1992 for Japan, some players were sure they had played it before. They’d be correct, as the ...

Super Mario’s 40 year history is a testament to all the different ways you can make a little guy run from left to right across a screen. Nintendo’s line of 2D Mario platformers has gone through three ...

Oscar Gonzalez is a Texas native who covered video games, conspiracy theories, misinformation and cryptocurrency. Dormant for more than a decade, Shinobi: Art of Vengeance ($30) does everything right ...

Before developer Tomonobu Itagaki brought the “Ninja Gaiden” franchise into the polygonal realm, the series had been an arcade mainstay and a classic Nintendo Entertainment System trilogy. The ...

In this snippet from Podcast Beyond Ep 908, Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound continues the tradition of Tecmo Koei’s brutal and beloved 8-bit platformer, and we had a chance to ask game director and producer ...