Review: Super Mario Party a Return to Form with a Few Fresh Features
Mario Party has been serving as a non-gamer point of entry into casual, party video game playing since its first release on the Nintendo 64. Its board game setup hasn’t […]
Review: Classic, Colorful De Blob is on Nintendo Switch
Way back when the Wii was at the height of popularity, third party games were fighting for shelf space. Many of those games have since fallen to obscurity, but there […]
Review: Splatoon 2’s Octo Expansion is Deliciously Difficult and Deep
This year’s E3 had a ton of surprises. The one I was personally most psyched for was the immediate release of Splatoon 2’s Octo Expansion. Originally slated for a July […]
Review: Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido Serves Up a Deliciously Deep Puzzle Platter
Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido is one of those games that you could easily pass over for more familiar territory. E3 didn’t do it any favors, either, as it was released just […]
E3 has Officially Begun! Check Out Our Favorites From the Major E3 Presentations
The huge Electronics and Entertainment Expo’s floors open today after a weekend of exciting conferences full of announcements. Some of them, we predicted in our pre-E3 round-up, but even so, […]
Review: Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze Swings onto Switch
I’m starting to feel like an unabashed Nintendo fanboy. That might not be a great starting line to establish credibility for a review, but I can’t help but love most […]
Review: Nintendo Labo is Way More than Just Cardboard
Few people know that Nintendo actually has a history before video games—notably, the first product they produced were Hanafuda playing cards. With Labo, they’ve gone back a bit to their […]
Game Review: Mario Party: The Top 100– Minigame Madness
I always felt like the minigames in Mario Party were like Lucky Charms marshmallows – the delicious prize floating amongst the mostly bland board-game-like gameplay. If you love Mario […]
Game Review: Pokkén Tournament DX – Exciting Pokémon Action Made Portable
Developed by Bandai Namco, Pokkén Tournament started its life as a Japanese arcade game. Released in 2015, it was followed by a successful Wii U version released early last year. […]
Game Review: Is Metroid: Samus Returns a Return to Game Greatness?
For a while there, Nintendo seemed to abandon the Metroid franchise. When the 30th anniversary of Metroid came and went last year without a word from Nintendo, most thought the […]
Game Review: Splatoon 2 Stays Fresh
Nintendo has a way of taking a genre of game that could be intimidating to some players, and making it not only accessible, but fun and fresh. Splatoon 2 harnesses […]
Game Review: ARMS is a Punch Above
Nintendo hasn’t established a new genre with ARMS, but like Super Smash Bros. before it, they have taken the fighting genre and made it accessible while flipping it on its […]