Tag Archives: Game Boy

War. War never changes. Well, that’s not quite true. We might be familiar with the concept of mass artillery and enemy warfare thanks to Call of Duty, Battlefield, Resistance (and way more games that we couldn’t possibly list in full here), yet each one tweaks the nature of war to …

For over 30 years, Mario has been entertaining people the world over in some of the best games of all time. With such a long history, theres a mountain of trivia and seemingly useless facts to learn about the franchise. We’ve wasted our lives collecting much of this info, bringing …

Shoot to (do anything other than) kill We’ve pretty much come to accept that video games have no problem giving players a firearm and letting them shoot anything that moves. Our gaming heroes have probably sent more bullets downrange than there are drops of rain during a thunderstorm. So when …

Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow. Whether grinding Magikarp levels on a bruised ’89 Game Boy or still furiously typing commands into a Twitch chat trying to take down a gym leader, we’re still playing the original pocket monster adventure 20 years after it first came out. With the OG Pokemon …

The years have been equally kind and cruel to The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. On the one hand, the artistry of its somber Hyrule has only become more beautiful over the past decade. On the other, irritating quests like having to gather a bunch of bug souls for no …

Castlevania 3: Dracula’s Curse is one of the best NES games ever made, a master class in action and style that continues to inform killer games today. No Castlevania 3? No Rogue Legacy, no Odallus, and many, many other killer games. But how do you make a game like Castlevania …

Street Fighter 5 is here, right in time for Street Fighter 2’s 25th anniversary! We’re celebrating by giving away a heaping pile of Street Fighter goodies. First up, is the Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition for Xbox 360, including Street Fighter 2 HD Remix, Super Street Fighter 4, Street …

Street Fighter 5 is so close, you can almost taste it. Bearded Ryu! Old Man Dhalsim! It’s going to be brutal, brilliant, and invigorating for the Street Fighter faithful. Here’s the problem: it’s hard to break into Street Fighter if you’re not one of those faithful. Street Fighter 4 did …

Yharnam never lets go. The Old Hunters, Bloodborne’s first DLC expansion is out, and it’s every bit as mysterious, difficult, and excellent as the original release. What about those hunters that failed to conquer the game the first time around, though? Is this expansion enough to lure them back into …

Believe it or not Rise of the Tomb Raider is about to make its grand and panic-ridden entrance, and we’ll finally get to see where Lara’s obsession with the world’s most ancient and murderous legends came from. Oh, the myths Ms. Croft has uncovered in her days. Skeptics might say …