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When John Madden Football was released for the Sega Genesis in 1990, few could have predicted it would become the prototypical sports game franchise. Purportedly, the Pro Hall of Famer and former Oakland Raider coach ...

From Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Mad Max, to the third iteration in the Disney Infinity franchise, this week’s schedule of new game releases brings some heavy hitters.  For otaku, there’s a few ...

In Japan, the visual novel has a rich, thirty-year history, with the medium’s success stimulating an assortment of sub-genres. But beyond the possible exception of the 1994 Sega CD release of Hideo Kojima’s Snatcher, VNs ...

Nostalgia is a tragically fragile sentiment. Relentlessly, publishers attempt to reinvigorate salient gaming memories, with a cavalcade of remakes, reboots, and remasters vying for our disposable income. For indie developers, there’s a similar effort to ...

Game reviewers (present company included) often obsess over taxonomy. I’d like to think that expressing and conceptualizing new genres isn’t lazy description, but rather a way to honor a game’s lineage. After all, every time ...

After the first recording was sacrificed to the Podcasting Gods (OK, transformed into a zero-byte file) Robert and Say are back to deliver another episode of IndieOutlook. This week we cover Ronin, Not a Hero, ...

The annual arrival of Madden NFL signals two things. Unmistakably, it indicates that the commencement of the professional football season is just weeks away, with the Steelers facing off against the Patriots on September tenth. ...

As a habitual rail commuter, I’ve grown accustomed to setbacks. Regularly, the morning train is at least ten minutes behind schedule. Other times, the locomotive careens past its designated stopping point, forcing the train to ...

Polarized pundits will tell you why you shouldn’t buy Dungeon Travelers 2: The Royal Library & the Monster Seal. Self-appointed virtue cadets and page-view pursuers have complained about the game’s content, finding the Aquaplus-developed title ...

Roguelikes along with platformers, have become a genre of choice for your average indie developer. This focus on categories abandoned by the AAA industry allows smaller developers to carve a niche for themselves without having ...