Nintendo
The Nintendo Today! App is a Bizarre Manifestation of our Dystopian Lives
The Nintendo Today! app is an uncomfortable reminder of video game's consumerist heart
Todd Parker
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Has Reignited Toxic JRPG Talking Points
Clair Obscur is great but please stop saying it's redefining a genre that you don't play.
Hideo Kojima
The Kojima Files #3 - Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (1990)
Metal Gear 2 feels like the start of the stealth genre and its belated western release reframes it as a lens for post cold war warfare.
Nintendo
Video Games have a Crediting Problem
Nintendo's refusal to say who is making Donkey Kong: Bananza brings to the forefront the issue of game credits.
Hideo Kojima
The Kojima Files #2 - Snatcher (1988)
A cyberpunk narrative steeped in cold war and nuclear anxieties that feels oddly pertinent in 2025. Also the first major example of Hideo Kojima being bad at writing women.
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
Cristiano Ronaldo is in Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves - The latest step in the Saudi takeover of Esports
CR7 joining the roster of Fatal Fury is just the latest step in Saudi Arabia using esports for 'sportswashing'
Hideo Kojima
The Kojima Files #1 - Metal Gear (1987)
Metal Gear (1987) is not without flaws but presents the skeleton of what would become Kojima's style in a package that holds up surprisingly well
Indie Games
5 Things I Played This Winter
One Last Story I played One Last Story late at night, alone in a dark room absorbed into the game's world of simple white outlines on a black screen. For the roughly one hour I stared at the screen I was emotionally gut punched by the games exploration
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Yu-Gi-Oh! and Digital Card Game Design Challenges
Yu-Gi-Oh! has been a juggernaut of the card game space since the late 1990s, birthing a massively successful TCG out of it’s incredibly popular manga and anime series. Following in the footsteps of Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh! has been pumping out games since the late 90s in Japan and the early