Category : Games
Ranking Nintendo’s Consoles #10: DS
Nintendo DS (2004) The Nintendo DS came at the perfect time, long before mobile games such as Angry Birds and Candy Crush sold millions to...
‘Adventures of Pip’ a Serious Contender for Best Indie Game of 2015
At first glance, The Adventures of Pip seems like another 2D, side-scrolling, adventure game; however, this delightfully postmodern fairy tale, is a deft, intelligent action...
With ‘Splatoon’ Nintendo Proves Good Shooters Don’t Need To Be Violent
by Aaron Santos
I am no stranger to competitive shooters. I have played them all and I know only one thing…kill or be killed. Games like CS:GO, Call...
The Objectification and Sexualization of Female Characters
by Tim Maison
E3 was earlier this month and one of the things I enjoyed most about the expo was getting a better look at Nintendo’s upcoming Hyrule...
‘Conduit 2’ finale does something amazing–it makes mediocre memorable
It’s not how you start, but how you finish. In the case of High Voltage Software’s cheesy sci-fi shooter sequel for the Wii, Conduit 2, you...
E3 2015 Nintendo’s Digital Event almost ensures that the WiiU will soon be left to gather dust on a shelf
Nintendo’s E3 Digital Event started strong packing in clever gags, catchy songs, and Nintendo executives Satoru Iwata, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Reggie Fils-Aime in puppet form....
Nintendo World Championship Splats, Races, Smashes, and Jumps to an Exciting Finish
Wow, what a way for Nintendo to kick off their E3 week. From a morning Nintendo Direct focusing on new additions to Smash Bros., to the...
‘ActRaiser’ lets you play a gleeful warrior god
You know what happens when you don’t check in on your Animal Crossing town for a while? Replace a little village with the whole world,...
Looking back at the 1990 Nintendo World Championships
25 years later, and the Nintendo World Championships are coming back with the qualifying rounds to be held at Best Buy locations across the U.S....
‘BOXBOY!’ manages all the right angles for a clever puzzler
Now Nintendo’s just getting cocky. Their new 3DS eShop downloadable puzzle game, BOXBOY!, goes beyond the simple design of an iconic plumber or pink puffball to introduce a...
‘Affordable Space Adventures’: No money, mo’ problems
Anyone wanting to decrease NASA’s budget in favor of a more fiscally conservative approach to interplanetary exploration should probably take a look at Danish developer...
10 Wild Nintendo E3 predictions
Every year E3, brings us the biggest gaming news of the year, as Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo drops their biggest announcements about upcoming games, release...
‘The Swapper’ is puzzle-solving existentialism at its finest
If my clone is the same as me, could it actually be me? And if through negligence or necessity I happen to, say, murder or...
‘Bloodborne’: A new moon rises with From Software’s latest
From Verdite to Boletaria and from Lordran to Drangleic, death and curses have been prevailing themes of the universes created by Japanese developer From Software. From returns to...
‘Kirby and the Rainbow Curse’ is a fun, misshapen adventure
For a series usually representing the lighter side of platforming, Kirby and the Rainbow Curse elicited a strangely high amount of profanity, and by the end I...
‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’: Quite Possibly the Scariest Game You’ll Ever Play
Five Nights at Freddy’s is an indie point-and-click survival horror video game developed by Scott Cawthon using the Multimedia Fusion engine. The game was released...
‘Super Smash Bros Wii U’ – A Brilliant Game, and Quite Possibly the Best Game to Come Out this Year
by Tim Maison
Nintendo’s smash hit (too easy?) Super Smash Bros is back after a long break of almost two months. Yes, I am playfully referring to the recent...