Tweet The average age of today’s traditional Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 owner is 37. A couple of years ago that number was 35. Looking back near the start of the generation, that number was 30. Notice a trend? Every time the age of the current gaming demographic is surveyed by one organization or...

Tweet TNT Racers is basically a throwback to the top-down arcade racers of the 8-bit days. If you’ve ever played a kart racer, or an arcade racer from the early 90s, you’ll know what to expect. Think of RC Pro AM or Rock n’ Roll Racing for a comparison. The sad thing however is that TNT...

Tweet We take midnight launches for granted nowadays. Every time a major title rolls down the pipeline, players expect to line up at midnight at their local GameStop and prepare to hand over their $60, rain, shine, or hurricane. It’s not an exaggeration really. I’ve seen nearly 1,000 players...

Tweet Firstly, it must be admitted that we don’t live in as awesome an era as we did in the late 90s, in regards to “extreme content.” Entertainment today must be politically correct, so everything goes through the PR department now. Things were different in the late 90s. In 1998, the NFL was...

Tweet I’m sort of known as the local “horder” amongst my group of friends. I collect video games and video game memorabilia, and I rarely sell my games after completing them. Walking into my game room can often feel like walking into a video game museum in many ways, but unlike most collectors I...

Tweet I’m playing through Mario Kart 7 with a ferocity I haven’t had with the series in some time. Part of that was for this review, but the other is because I’m actually enjoying Mario Kart once again. I’ve made it no secret over the past few years that I hate Mario Kart Wii. There...

Tweet The internet shut down again yesterday over some mammoth news. It finally happened… Shigeru Miyamoto is retiring…. except he’s not. No, Miyamoto is not retiring to the rocking chair to sit in that legendary garden of his to smoke the Pikmin pipe into his old age, but rather is...

Tweet Since the 80s, Sega has been renowned for their musical legacy. The musical output of the publisher is nothing but classic, and they are by far among the top Japanese publishers when it comes to releasing their premiere works on soundtrack CD. However there has long been one glaring hole in their...

Tweet When Super Mario 64 was released in 1996 for the Nintendo 64, it took Mario out of his flat screen roots and placed him squarely in the third dimension. What is rarely spoken of is all the things that were lost in the transition. Many of these things were staples of Mario’s identity. Gone was the...

Tweet I’m going to be honest. I’ve been a big Sonic fan since 1991. The Genesis classics were platforming perfection. I also enjoyed the Dreamcast years with Sonic Adventure 1 & 2, as well as Sonic Heroes. While none were perfect, each tried to capture the essence of a Sonic game. When Sega...