Final Fantasy VIII is an excellent entry in the long-running franchise, if not the most polarizing. One of the most compelling aspects of the game is its main lead, Squall Leonhart.…
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Final Fantasy X has perhaps one of the densest stories in the entire franchise, and perhaps the most interesting fantasy setting since J.R.R. Tolkien literally wrote the book on modern…
On August 25, 2009, a little-known developer called Rocksteady Games created what was considered at the time the greatest superhero-based video game, Batman: Arkham Asylum, based on the Grant Morrison graphic…
Of all of the generations of video gaming, particularly on the console side, there hasn’t been one that has garnered more apathy than the eight generation; the current generation with…
Video games are weird, and none come any weirder than the hip-hop-influenced fighter, Def Jam: Fight for NY. The background of this often forgotten gem stems from its predecessor, Vendetta,…
In the discussion about video games as art, one subject that almost never comes up is how games handle their narratives. That’s not without reason; given the interactive nature of…
People tend to forget this largely because now it’s considered the greatest game console of all time, but there was a time where the Super Nintendo was nowhere near as…
In late September of 1987, Tokyo-based game development company Konami released Castlevania for the Nintendo Family Computer (or Famicom) in Japan. One of the first action-platformers to be released, it…