• Inside the Guide: Rejection

    ...saturation point.” How many guides must there be, until you have “too many?” Try to put a number on it. Fifty? Twenty? Ten? Nine? Here’s the painful scenario that inevitably...

  • 64th Street (ARC)

    ...end, and we’ll be none the wiser. Cooked Meats on Demand I was pleasantly surprised by the combo systems and special moves. For a two-button game, the number of techniques...

  • Avenging Spirit (ARC)

    ...popular. It only appeared in a small number of arcades in the U.S., and then vanished in a puff of smoke. Like a ghost often will. Jaleco published Avenging Spirit,...

  • Gaming Outside the Mainstream

    ...the website. Buckle in for administration! For years, we’ve been referring to ourselves as a “videogame humor” website, for a couple of reasons: 1) We’re a team of funny writers...

  • Games That Secretly Suck: Demon’s Souls

    ...kids would argue for hours over the merits of Mario or the superiority of Sonic. Nowadays, with the number of console exclusives dwindling, children and dirty, lonely, sad men are...

  • Treasure Mathstorm and Treasure Cove

    Number Munchers isn’t the only educational computer game I played in the 1990s. I played many other games, most of them made by The Learning Company. TLC was truly one...

  • [NSFW] Don’t Throw Away Your Vita Just Yet

    ...add up), there are a number of games coming out on both the PS3 and Vita platforms, in tandem. Games such as Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time and the infamous...

  • CodeMasters Giving Hamilton the Mario Kart Treatment

    ...inspired F1 racing game with cartoon visuals and the likenesses of a number of real-life race-car drivers. I don’t care about F1 racing; I never have. But this is how...

  • Machi-ing Maker 4 (PS3)

    ...buildings to unlock. And if you reach the number of citizens required, you’ll unlock a new part of the island, and with it a new means of transporting citizens into...

  • Gravity Rush (Vita)

    ...game is as follows: You’ll find a mission, you’ll start the mission, and you’ll complete the mission. To complete the mission, you will have to kill a certain number of...