Too Much Awesome

Mario on his own usually never misses a beat. Place Mario in a sports setting and things start to become hit-or-miss at an alarming rate. Hand the property to Square-Enix and you’re nearly promised things won’t end well. Nintendo has done just that with Mario Sports Mix, the newest Mario-themed sports game for the Wii. [...]

Why haven’t I Thought Deep for a while? I’m not really sure. I might as well fix that by diving into a topic I’ve mentioned before: Fanboyism (or Fangirlism, but it’s easier to write “fanboy,” so just replace the gender pronouns to enjoy the article more if that’d otherwise be a deal-breaker). What makes someone [...]

Can I just go ahead and be a bit of a Nintendo fanboy for a minute and say that Nintendo kicked so many butts during 2010? I have so much good to mention that I’m not sure how to contain myself. However, as with anything, they hit a few major stalls, just like the other [...]

We’ve only just got our feet wet with the holiday season but already we have to start looking at the next few weeks as too little time yet to plan for Christmas. Video games, naturally, are going to be high on your list of purchasable items, especially when you’re talking about kids. There’s one game [...]

The Donkey Kong Country Trilogy stands as one of the best grouping of video games you can possibly find, and certainly one of the best platforming experiences next to the holiness that is Mario and early Sonic. Nintendo set out to recreate the glory of DK’s finest hour, tasking Retro Studios with the job. Did [...]

Microsoft’s big new motion controller apparatus was officially released last week, showing the world what a non-controller could look like. A handful of games have come out for it (notice that I’ve reviewed none of them) and huge changes occurred to the Xbox as a whole. But what does Kinect really mean for us? What [...]

Last week, I got some sort of weird game music-related virus and made a list of my favorite video game tracks, then a list of my favorite battle themes. As is the nature of the beast when talking about music, I barely scratched the surface of my favorites. Therefore, I still have one more music [...]

I got to go to PAX this year. It is absolutely vital that I rub that fact in as much as possible. One of the biggest aspects of PAX is the showroom floor stuffed with game demos as far as the eye can see. Being the Nintendo fan that I am, I made a beeline [...]

So Metroid: Other M is now out. I haven’t played it yet. Notice that “yet” there. Don’t worry, I intend to play through this one as soon as possible, I just haven’t yet. Still, it’s my duty to inform our many, er, several readers about the big Wii game that’s got everyone talking. What I [...]

Game nerds my age all remember the game “GoldenEye 007” with fond memories. For me personally, “GoldenEye” was the reason I bought a Nintendo 64, and that was how I became a gamer at all (my early days of button-mashing on the NES don’t really count).