The Super Nintendo hosted some of the greatest video games of all time, the kind that spawned genres or refined existing ones to a perfect point. As a result, the system's library is packed with ...

Blaze Entertainment's Rare-focused retro handheld offers a shiny new Banjo-Kazooie port, with a bunch of other classic titles ...

When JRPGs first began to emerge, it was common for most of them to follow a strict high-fantasy template. Heroes saving princesses and slaying dragons while boarding a canoe or a sailing boat to ...

Mario Kart 8, Bayonetta, and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild are all among the best Nintendo Wii U games ever made.

The Super Nintendo might be the most literal console name ever. Nintendo made it, and it was pretty super at doing games. It ...

This video game has the perfect basis for the next Alien franchise installment on television, featuring a strong heroine and terrifying xenomorphs.

It's been a tough run for the industry, but there's plenty of strong contenders for game of the year, from old franchises to all-new IP And look, there have been some ace blockbusters this year, too.

Like UFOs, ball lightning and bigfoot, one of the great mysteries of our time is that Superman is apparently Kryptonite to good videogames. There's yet to be a truly great Kal-El game in the vein of ...

Welcome back to Forgotten Gems, my regular column about games that have faded from public discourse and may not be easy to track down and play anymore. To see other installments in this article series ...