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Holiday spirit is in the air, as the guys discuss their Spencer Gifts findings, everyone’s favorite light-gunslinger, and of course- games. Don’t forget you can send questions for our next mailbag, and subscribe to the ...

         We apologize to our Thai, Persian, and Bengali readers for Sonic’s crass gesture. I often hear retro aficionados refer to the 16-bit era as the ‘golden era’ of console gaming. The designation is well-founded, ...

TideGear’s Take: To call a game “retro” can imply a lacking in innovation. The PixelJunk games continue to prove that a game can bring new concepts to the table and still make us feel like ...

Having played a multitude of ‘match-three’ puzzlers over the years, I decided to skip Puzzlegeddon’s tutorial and jump right into the action. I was sure that the title’s diminutive six-by-six grid held a minimum of ...

About a year ago, my environmental conscious beckoned. Feeling guilty about the steady flow of batteries my Wiimote was devouring, and the effect those depleted AA-cells had on nature, I was determined to make a ...

SeanNOLA’s Take: 30 years ago, vector-based arcade games were all the rage.  For the readers who can’t remember that far back (and I’ll admit to not being among you) these games, such as Asteroids and ...

Few franchises are as keenly focused as the Bit.Trip series. Each entry has presented players with an elemental control scheme, delightfully retro-inspired visuals and gameplay, along with a pleasingly effervescent chiptune score. Playing a Bit.Trip ...

With no formal training, a deficient sense of rhythm, and an acute case of tone-deafness, I began my music career in the summer of 1989. A peripheral called the Replay Professional transformed my modest Atari ...

The first half hour with snowboarding sim, Stoked: Big Air Edition, recalled my preliminary moments on an actual board. The episode was filled with pure, unadulterated frustration. After the tutorial explained the basics of ollies, ...

I’ve often tried to understand the irresistible allure of the Tower Defense genre. Apparently, protecting a territory from a succession of malicious marauders evokes some kind of primordial instinct. Why else would games as diverse ...