Ring Fit Adventure and the New Standard for Fitness Games

I remember when Nintendo first revealed Ring Fit Adventure in a bizarre teaser trailer in 2019. It didn't show a single second of gameplay footage. Rather, the trailer depicted groups of people gathered around each other, dripping in sweat, yelling and screaming as they wielded a strange-looking ring-shaped controller. Little did I know that this …

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Toxic as Muk

At E3 2019, Pokémon producer Junichi Masuda made a startling admission. With over 800 pocket monsters across 7 Pokémon generations, it was time to make some cuts. "We knew at some point we weren't going to be able to indefinitely keep supporting all of the Pokémon," Masuda stated in an interview with USgamer. And indeed, …

Games of the Decade: GOTY 2010-2019

Inspired by a tweet by @RinoTheBouncer, I wanted to reflect upon some of the games that have defined my past decade as a gamer. For those unaware, I had stopped playing video games during the GCN/PS2/Xbox era and only seriously started getting back into it with the launch of the Nintendo 3DS in 2012. Thus, …

The Great Digital Video Game Storefront War of 2019

It is a cold winter day in Cary, North Carolina. The date is December 6, 2018. Epic Games—best known for such blockbuster video game franchises like Gears of War, Infinity Blade, and, more recently, Fortnite—is preparing to launch something totally new. But this “something” is not a new game. No, Epic has plans for something …

Preservation, Privacy, and Posterity

Last year, the debate regarding video game ROMs once again returned to the forefront of industry conversation—a topic rife with legal ambiguity, controversial takedowns, and moral gray areas—when Nintendo filed suit against two popular video game ROM sites, LoveROMs and LoveRETRO, for copyright infringement. Nintendo states that these sites “reproduce, distribute, publicly perform and display …