We’re finally here – the top twenty absolute best PlayStation games of all time. Whittling down PlayStation’s greatest ever video games to a top twenty wasn’t easy, but the monkeys…
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Putting together a list of the 100 best Playstation games of all time is no easy task but the crew here at Goomba Stomp have been working around the clock…
The 60 Best Playstation Games Ever since Sony entered the market as a dark horse during the console wars of the 90s, the PlayStation has always played by its own…
It’s hard to dispute that Sony’s PlayStation 4 is the current winner of the console wars. 86 million units have shipped since the console was launched back in November 2013.…
Few companies outside of Nintendo can claim to have even a sliver of the effect on the gaming industry as electronics giant Sony has. Ever since the PlayStation emerged in…
This isn’t how the Nintendo Wii U’s tale was supposed to end. By finishing as the fourth-worst-selling console (13.56 million units sold) from the four major console developers (e.g. Microsoft,…
Silent Hill 2 is something else. First released in 2002 by Konami (developed by Team Silent) for PlayStation 2 as a follow-up, not sequel, to the original Silent Hill (released…
“War has changed.” There is not a single video game that opens as profoundly, or as appropriately, as Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots does with Solid Snake’s “War…
“Go forth, and find your own calling.” What exactly is Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops in relation to the rest of the series? It isn’t written or directed by Hideo…
Around the mid to late 2000s, I began to notice that video games at large were becoming increasingly passive experiences. Maybe part of this was a result of video games…
It has been officially announced that online servers for Demon’s Souls will die off come February 28th, 2018, the month of the game’s (and Souls/Bloodborne series’s) 9th birthday. Demon’s Souls…
Hard as it is for me to believe, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune celebrates its 10th birthday this month. Ah, it seems like only yesterday I was marveling at the game’s brilliant characters,…
Top 10 Games is a new, semi-regular series that hopes to offer a bit of insight into the twisted minds of Goomba Stomp’s writers, editors, and podcasters by allowing them to…
Persona 5 is a great game that sets a high bar with its amazing visuals, audio, gameplay, and story. It is a definitive purchase for anyone who finds themselves to be a fan of role-playing games, Japanese or otherwise.
Releasing early in the lifespan of the original PlayStation, Final Fantasy VII was a cross-demographic smash hit that elevated Japanese role playing games out of the shadows and into the…
A few months ago, I authored an optimistic post regarding the then-newly announced Xbox Scorpio. I wrote then about how it seemed as if the Scorpio was going to usher in…
The plight of the film-to-video-game adaptation has been a difficult one. Historically, movie-licensed games have failed to live up to their source material due to a cavalcade of different reasons:…
With the Mass Effect series blasting off to a new galaxy this week in the much-anticipated Mass Effect: Andromeda, it’s perhaps a good time to look back at what made…
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‘Tales of Berseria’ Review – A Pirate, a Witch, and a Demon walk into a Bar…
by Taylor Smithby Taylor SmithThe Tales series has been on shaky ground for the last several years. Tales of Xillia 2 presented confusing and complex combat along with a choice system that ultimately felt useless and unneeded.
This month Goomba Stomp is going to be doing a bunch of features on one of our favorite developers, Capcom. Capcom has a pretty decent track record of releasing most of…