What is the concept? In an era when Pac-Man fever had yet to infect stateside gamers, Commodore PET users might be found playing MINER!, an excavation simulation that was published in Cursor magazine. Echoing games ...

What is the concept? During the heyday of coin-ops, there was little need for narrative. Instead, arcade proprietors sought cabinets which would elicit adrenaline-emitting reactions, thereby earning a steady stream of revenue. The inclusion of ...

I’d like to think that there’s a bit of Takashi Natsume is every person. As the eponymous protagonist of Natsume’s Book of Friends, the high-schooler faced an unrelenting rivulet of adversity. Growing up, the youth ...

A few years ago, the most common price for a digitally downloaded game was ten dollars. Now, fifteen dollar games seem to be the new ten. But this week, Wii U title, Spin The Bottle: ...

Ironically, the same principles which stimulate adoration for Japanese role-playing games are also the reasons why the genre has a constituency of critics. Much like haiku, the beauty of the JRPG stems from the scope ...

What is the concept? While EuroRPGs such as Venetica, Risen, Arcania: Gothic 4, and Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga might lack a bit of polish, few can criticize these games for a deficiency of ...

This week, a number of classic gaming series return once more. Pikmin 3 repeals the franchise’s nine-year hiatus, while Tales of Xillia sees the long-running Namco franchise return for its thirteenth installment. Of course, once ...

During the heyday of the coin-op era, the brawler enjoyed an extended period of quarter-gorging success. The reason for the genre’s popularity was clear: titles like Double Dragon, Final Fight, and Bad Dudes articulated the ...

After weighing in on next-generation’s launch line-up, upcoming Fall titles, and the Phil Fish meltdown, the crew offers impressions of Dragon’s Crown, Invizimals: The Lost Tribes, Tokyo Jungle Mobile, as well as revisits a few ...

Look past Retro Game Challenge’s collection of faux-Famicom titles, and the title divulges an implicit takeaway: despite cultural and geographical differences, the medium of gaming created an undeniable similarity across Eastern and Western childhoods. Much ...