Nathan Birch
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Nintendo’s original frenemies have been on fairly good terms in recent years, teaming up for sporting action and even taking down Bowser together in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, but their rivalry will never truly die. The two debuted together in 1981’s Donkey Kong and Nintendo has delivered a number...
It’s difficult to think of a game that’s stumbled as badly as Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League when it comes to pre-release PR. The latest from Batman Arkham developers Rocksteady Studios, Kill the Justice League spent upwards of seven years in development, and when it was finally revealed as...
Nintendo and sophisticated storytelling don’t always go hand-in-hand, but they did for a brief period in the late 2000s when the company teamed up with developer Cing to publish games like Another Code: Two Memories (released as Trace Memory in North America), Another Code: R – A Journey into Lost...
James Cameron’s Avatar franchise has been crying out for a good video game adaptation since Day One. The IP has always been more about immersion and worldbuilding than storytelling, two things games do better than any other medium. Despite this, the interactive potential of the franchise has largely lay dormant...
The WarioWare franchise may be weird, but it actually serves a rather utilitarian role for Nintendo, as they often use the games as showcases for whatever new hardware features and gimmicks they’ve cooked up. Despite this, Wario has never quite found his footing on the unique Switch hardware. 2021’s WarioWare:...
With over a decade since the last core 2D entry in the fabled franchise, fans have been left to wonder what might be next for traditional side-scrolling Mario games for some time. The New Super Mario Bros. games never quite measured up to the creativity of the plumber’s 3D outings,...
How big is too big for an open-world game? It’s a question Assassin’s Creed fans have been asking themselves for years, as it seems each new entry in the series tries to deliver more than in the past – wider worlds, deeper RPG systems, more expansive campaigns. More bang for...
NBA 2K24
Last year’s NBA 2K23 was a true championship-worthy basketball game, offering up rewarding on-court action, a refined career mode, and a variety of nostalgia-tweaking content (like the returning Jordan Challenge) that wasn’t necessarily focused on nickel-and-diming players. In other words, this year’s NBA 2K24 was provided with a very solid...
Goodbye Volcano High has been the subject of a lot more attention, and the accompanying online slings and arrows, than your typical indie visual novel. The game’s quirky “dinosaur teenagers on the eve of the apocalypse” premise garnered a lot of attention when it was announced as a PlayStation console...
Venba
A great meal, particularly one prepared by somebody you love, is one of the great joys a person can experience -- literally the stuff of life -- and so it’s unsurprising that multiple video games have attempted to tackle the subject of cooking over the years. Series like Overcooked and...
Danganronpa has been one of the most unexpected success stories of the past few years. They’re weird, they’re morbid, they’re the kind of thing that has traditionally been very niche outside of Japan, and yet, the Danganronpa games have sold over 5 million copies worldwide. You’d think Danganronpa creator Kazutaka...
The Age of Wonders franchise has never quite achieved the same level of success and notoriety as turn-based strategy contemporaries like Civilization or Stellaris, but Paradox Interactive and developer Triumph Studios seem intent on changing that. The sci-fi spinoff Age of Wonders: Planetfall left a solid impression back in 2019,...
