This last weekend I took a trip around my local used video game stores. I had recently come into possession of a $5 spare GameCube from a garage sale. I keep spare consoles around in case my originals fail, but I also like to have extras (when I can) in case 4-players aren’t enough. There’s a...

I’m an old school Sonic fan. I’m not ashamed to admit it. Sonic the Hedgehog – in his original Naoto Oshima Genesis-era design – is one of the greatest designed characters of all time, who also happened to be the star player of some brilliantly constructed 2D sidescrollers. As a character,...

Nintendo has always suffered from a severe lack of self-worth. For all intents, they are still fundamentally a larger scale version of that company from the 1970s that produced quirky, off-beat gadgets and toys like the master hand and the love tester. They are home to some of the most treasured brands in...

The slow descent of Star Fox has been a tragic occurrence in the world of Nintendo. For a series that was once worthy of standing prominently alongside the other AAA faces of the company brand, the series has fallen into the third tier filler software category. Such a fate is unfitting of the golden...

Welcome to Game are Evil Retro Reviews. Our retro reviews are a little different. We’re going to be reviewing retro games as though they were just released yesterday. After all, a true classic should be timeless. Let’s see how yesterday’s classics stack up amongst today’s favorites. The original...

The Nintendo 64 was the very first certifiable party game console. In the west, Nintendo’s little black box started out with that familiar cute yet cool vibe that Nintendo consoles traditionally touted, but within a year on the market, the N64 took on a hard edge of badass marketing and college...

I’m a gamer of simple tastes. I enjoy a 40+ hour mega quest as much as the next person, but I have to pick and choose which ones I undertake due to limited play time. It isn’t easy sometimes to say no to Assassin’s Creed or Enslaved, but sometimes I have to do it. And of the 40+ hour quests I...

Has the music stopped for the rhythm genre? With the latest installments in the Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchises selling far below expectations, and every game room cluttered with at least one set of dusty plastic instruments, it’s easy to think so. But Guitar Hero and Rock Band weren’t the...

Sad as it is to say, the Nintendo DS (now in its sixth year) is pretty much over. We’ve reached that point where although token software will continue to steadily flow to market, the stuff core gamers really care about is done. Chuck E. Cheese mini-game compilations, Nicktoon licenses, and Disney...

There’s something that drives me crazy about the way society sees men who play video games. If we’re not grouped into the proverbial man-child bracket, we’re shoehorned into the “Spike TV Demographic.” You know, the bar hopping, beer swilling, 4-wheeler riding, women’s ass...