Remember the days when a game like Final Fantasy 7 was held up as a great example of storytelling? Such a thought seems baffling now. As a young teenager, I have no shame in admitting I thought of it as [...]

When it was first announced that StarCraft ll was going to be split into three parts, fans were somewhat upset. To be fair, It did kind of sound like Blizzard was trying to extract every last penny from its fan [...]

Josh on Nintendo’s classic SNES action-adventure game, Super Metroid This isn’t going to be a review, at least not really. Super Metroid has already etched its mark on video game history. It’s a classic, a golden cow, a game used to measure [...]

If I were to describe the Devil May Cry series in one word, it would be, ‘inconsistent’. There are the highs, like the first game. Which while difficult to go back to now, was hugely influential and effectively gave birth [...]

In 2010 Platinum Games won the hearts and minds of many gamers with the double punch of Bayonetta and Vanquish. Sure, MadWorld and Infinite Space had previously been received fairly positively, but it was this brace of games, Bayonetta especially, [...]

2012: A phenomenal year for smaller development teams working in the downloadable space I can’t remember another year where these games have been in such high quantity and quality. Ironically it has also been the worst year for the Summer [...]

Josh takes a look at Fez, where 2D creatures are unaware they live in a 3D world.

Josh takes a look at the highlight of 2012′s Xbox Summer of Arcade promotion, Dust: An Elysian Tail. Josh and Cane & Rinse would like to thank developer Humble Hearts for providing a free copy.

Josh takes a butcher’s hook at MercurySteam’s 2010 gem, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.

“Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.” The original Darksiders didn’t really have any new ideas it could call its own. But by drawing inspiration from disparate sources, and combining these ideas [...]