While a large portion of gaming industry writers will be busy struggling to rank the games of this year in a fruitless attempt to determine which is the "best" one,…
Under Review seeks to review the indie games that fall somewhere between complete unknown and massive indie success, the games with only a few thousand reviews that many folks miss.…
In the Resources series we will create an ongoing, frequently updated list of curated selections on one game related topic. In Educational Resources we focus on books, tutorials, video series, apps, and…
In the Resources series we will create an ongoing, frequently updated list of curated selections on one game related topic. In Game History Websites, we will highlight a large list of places…
In the Resources series we will create an ongoing, frequently updated list of curated selections on one game related topic. In VGM we will be focusing on the soundtracks and…
Toru Hagihara and Koji Igarashi developed this entry in the Castlevania series while at Konami originally for the 32X, but part way through decided to refocus on the Playstation. Igarashi…
Shigeru Miyamoto led Nintendo R&D4 to develop one of the best games on the NES and an amazing entry into the mainline Mario series, together with the Koji Kondo soundtrack…
Designed by Mabel Addis and William McKay as part of a joint project between the Board of Cooperative Educational Services of Westchester County New York and IBM for study into…
Yasumi Matsuno and Hironobu Sakaguchi teamed up for Square's first Final Fantasy sub-series game Final Fantasy Tactics. Similar to Shining Force it is a tactics, grid based, RPG, but features…
Developed by Climax Entertainment and designed by Hiroyuki Takahashi and Yasuhiro Taguchi, Sega's Shining Force is acutally the second game in the Shning series with the first being a more…
With the first sequel to Zelda a founding member of the Bizzare Retro Sequels club, Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka's A Link to the Past brings back the top down…
Kazuto Kohno's cult classic Crystalis, developed by SNK, was an action RPG in the style of the Legend of Zelda, but with a focus on much more traditional RPG elements…
Developed by Black Isle Studios and designed by Chris Avellone in Black Isle's famous Infinity Engine, Planescape: Torment is one of the best written games of all time and a…
Created by Hironobu Sakaguchi and Yoshinori Kitase with art by Tetsuya Nomura and Yusuke Naora, the Square Developed Final Fantasy VII is, if not the best, certainly the most well…
Developed by Game Freak and created by Satoshi Tajiri for the Nintendo Game Boy, Pokemon Red and Blue are the original installments of the popular series (with an enhanced version…
Developed by Amccus and Published by Natsume, Yasuhiro Wada, Setsuko Miyakoshi, and Ken Takahashi created a non-combat focused RPG that would eventually spawn multiple sequels and, after a disagreement with…