Action Games Through dark magic, one dev looks to have captured the magic of Sekiro in a gorgeous 2D game – I've followed it for a year, it finally has a Steam page, and I hammered the Wishlist button ...

Super Mario Bros. 2 is seen as the black sheep of Mario games series. Released in 1988 for the NES and in 1992 for Japan, some players were sure they had played it before. They’d be correct, as the ...

Revenge is a dish best served old. And by that I’m talking about old-school ninja master Joe Musashi, who dusts off his tabi shoes for one more revenge-packed tour in “Shinobi: Art of Vengeance.” ...

What are the best 2D Mario games? We rank every side-scrolling platformer in the Nintendo mascot's history.Super Mario’s 40-year history is a testament to all the different ways you can make a little ...

Square Enix’s H2-2D line of games can sometimes feel like something of a conveyor belt. Since 2018, we’ve had seven games, both remakes and new titles, in the official series. We are now at the point ...

Believe it or not, there was a time when most video games were blind purchases. Well before Twitch streamers were doing full live playthroughs of unreleased titles — hell, before trial demos were even ...

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, ...

When I first booted up the free Nintendo Switch 2 demo of The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales shortly after its reveal in the Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase, I wasn't expecting to love it ...

As video game visual fidelity increases, so too does the file size. Although it’s great that games like Call of Duty or Death Stranding 2: On the Beach continue to push the graphical boundaries of ...

When it comes to 2D action platformers, I don’t necessarily need them to be revolutionary. But I do expect a superb execution of the fundamentals – speed, control, and challenge – all of which the ...

Fallout, Wasteland, and Stalker are three of the most influential game series to come out in the medium's history. Each of them has spawned a number of successful sequels, from Fallout 76 to Wasteland ...