Cowboys and 8-bit looks. A pair of mobile Mario games continue to expand their rosters in new and surprising ways. Acknowledging the 30th anniversary of the original Dr Mario game,…

Let’s go Oilers. The NHL will officially kick off the post-season in just a few days but they’ll test their systems tonight as the Edmonton Oilers and the Calgary Flames…

Fireworks! Dream islands! Sparklers! Island backups! Nintendo announced today that a second major update will be hitting on July 30th — this Thursday. With it comes a veritable bevy of…

Big game hunting. Dramatic upheavals in the behavior of the Elder Dragons–fierce creatures perhaps best described as forces of nature–have resulted in you being sent to investigate what’s happening in…

Relive gaming history. Analogue’s hotly anticipated Pocket–a modern portable gaming device primed to play Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance Games out of the box–will slide its…

Gee, ain’t that swell. Trending on Twitter recently is the phrase “PSP battery“. Why is a topic about a 15 year old handheld suddenly trending? Well, alarmingly, many users are…

The best in games writing. Good Games Writing Weekly is a round-up of the best writing on games and related fields from around the web. Some themes may be for…

Big changes coming but more are already here. Notice: The games discussed in this article include an M-rated game and one with microtransactions exceeding $10. They are discussed conceptually only.…

Press F to pay respects. Don’t press X. The most recent DLC for Civilization VI promises vampires but delivers bugs instead. Since launching, the social media channels for the game…

A different samurai game. In a month where seemingly everyone is playing Ghost of Tsushima, Adult Swim are banking on there being demand for a different kind of samurai game,…