Category: Editorial

Salt is Porn For People Who Loved Sailing in Wind Waker

Why Do Games Journalists Feel the Need to Say How Long They’ve Been Gaming in Their Author Bios?

How Your Video Games Are Manipulating You

IGN Has Called Every Mainline, 3D Zelda Title the Best Zelda Game Ever Made

Why Minecraft Is an Undeniably Important Video Game

Spot Goes to Hollywood Was a Dark, Bizarre Piece of Advertainment

Swery65 Helped Fill a Kirby-Sized Hole in My Heart

Visually, Metal Gear Solid Has Aged Really Well

Mighty No. 9 Seems Like the Exact Game Keiji Inafune Wanted to Make

Gamers Have Never Been an Oppressed Minority

Happy Retro Holidays

What Weezer and Resident Evil Have in Common

I’d Rather Swim in Mashed Potatoes than Win This Ocean Software Contest

Mario Hits Bricks with His Fist, Not His Head

PlayStation Magazine Discussed Women in Gaming Way Back in 1997

Eidos Mocked Depression in This 1998 Ad

GameFan’s College Football USA ’96 Review Might Be the Worst Thing Ever Written

The N64 Era Was a Great Time to Buy Video Games

The Scuba Virtual Immersion Visor May Be the Worst Gaming Peripheral of All Time

This Heat.net Ad Is Terrifyingly Violent

Hey, the Sega Master System Looked like a Star Wars Computer Panel

From the Court to the Console: A Basketball Retrospective

Junji Ito Cast a Dark Shadow over the Pokémon Universe

Bad Games Are Good

Every Gamer Needs a Security Blanket

Seven Secret Retro Game Tunes You’ve Probably Never Heard

What Is Nonlinear Content?

Pathologic: Video Games Don’t Have to Be Fun

Hip Tanaka Made Some of the Greatest Game Tunes in Existence

The Plight of Edith Jeter: What Dragon Quest VI Taught Me About Mortality