Super Mario’s 40 year history is a testament to all the different ways you can make a little guy run from left to right across a screen. Nintendo’s line of 2D Mario platformers has gone through three ...

Super Mario Galaxy 2 came out in 2010, but it feels like it was just released, given how sharp, colorful, and well-designed ...

"Noita" is one of the most creative — and fiendishly difficult — action platforming games in recent memory. “Noita” is a video game about death. You’ll die in the usual ways — swarmed by monsters, ...

Elias Rodriguez graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in English and got his Master's Degree in Secondary English while in Teach for America--a program to help children in low-income communities get ...

Bonk's Adventure is a short and easy platformer, and while it still holds up pretty well, it's difficult to recommend in earnest. History has been unkind to the TurboGrafx-16. As the third system in a ...

Jason Wojnar started his gaming life with the original PlayStation and the Commodore 64, despite being way too young to know what the was. He started writing about video games in 2018 and hasn't ...

Anthony is a writer who's worked in the games industry for four years. He's a competitive gamer with a soft spot for retro titles. Anthony enjoys speedrunning a few titles, but Simpson's Hit & Run is ...

Super Mario Bros. Wonder was dumped at the end of the Nintendo Switch’s life cycle. In 2023, when it first came out, everyone knew the Switch was on its way out. Even though it took almost two years, ...