Dungeon-Mapping Adventure Awaits the Bold - Sometimes you long for a game that provides a challenge, a challenge greater than most RPGs these days provide. Sometimes, you want to go questing while haunted by the dread of a brutal end awaiting... [more+]

Pay Attention As You Read This - E-mail. Text messaging. Social networks. The Internet. Every day in our modern world, distractions such as these constantly divide up our attention and pull us away from things we ought to be doing.... [more+]

Not Just Final Fantasy with a Weird Name - Luxendarc, the world of Square Enix's latest portable RPG, Bravely Default: Flying Fairy, has become a pretty grim place. The elements are off kilter, with the ocean raging and the wind ceasing to... [more+]

You Shall Not Pass - LEGO games all have one thing in common, a series of movie-inspired scenarios and characters reproduced as LEGO creations, moving around solving puzzles and defeating whatever gets in their way.... [more+]

The Professor Enters a New Dimension - Fans of Professor Layton here in North America have grown used to lengthy waits. Ever since the series' inception in 2007, people on this side of the globe have had to wait roughly 1-2 years before... [more+]

Karat or Stick - Nintendo has been pretty smart about the pacing and spacing out of releases for their most famous games so that audiences do not experience Mario overload. Even though several games featuring the pudgy... [more+]

Harvesting in 3D (E3 2012) - Before E3, I didn't know much about Harvest Moon: A New Beginning, so I was looking forward to finding out more on the showfloor. In Japanese, the series Harvest Moon is called Bokujou Monogatari,... [more+]

RPG Action Squared - When I think of Square-Enix and RPGs, I usually think of Final Fantasy. That's why I was surprised by the presence of Heroes of Ruin for the 3DS, an action-adventure, real-time strategy, role-playing... [more+]

Dreaming of 3D Kingdom Hearts (E3 2012) - At the Square-Enix booth at E3 2012, I got to play Kingdom Hearts 3DS: Dream Drop Distance. The game was a blast, with free-flowing combat that was fast-paced and some of the best action I've... [more+]

The Gaming Titans Come Together - Capcom, SEGA, and Namco Bandai are collaborating to release a brand new strategy RPG crossover for the 3DS. The game is called Project X Zone and will feature characters from all three companies. The... [more+]

Mario Returns to Serve the World - Of all the sports that Mario has taken on, his takes on the game of tennis have been met with more praise than any other, arguably speaking. Despite this, it has been the better part of a decade since... [more+]

Awaken to your Destiny - Perhaps the most interesting feature of Fire Emblem: Awakening (aka Fire Emblem: Kakusei) is that there are two protagonists. The first is Prince Crom, falchion-wielding heir to the throne of the... [more+]

Tekken Primes Up for Glasses-Free 3D! - With a plethora of fighting games making their appearance on Nintendo's handheld in its first year (Dead or Alive, Street Fighter, and Blaz Blue), it was only fair that Tekken would join the... [more+]

A Dungeon-Crawler that Will Fit in your Pocket - In our world, we have but one truth, "Everything shrinks". Thousands of years ago, people thought the Earth to be vast world. Nowadays, people can travel around the globe in far less than 180... [more+]

Mario enters the third dimension... for real this time - It's easy to say that Mario single-handedly invented the platforming genre, and while that's not completely true, what cannot be said is that he hasn't left his mark. For close to thirty... [more+]