I’d love to tell you that I’ve curated a complete library of games from celebrated shoot-’em-up developer Treasure, but I’d be lying. I’ve struggled through all five stages of IKARUGA, played a couple levels of GUNSTAR HEROES and rented GRADIUS V once, and that’s the long and short of it. The games are famously hard, and I’m a wimp. So I can’t really...

As Americans, we’re rightfully choosy about which mass-media entertainers we allow to use single names.Think Madonna. Beyonce. Chyna. Gallagher. Best of the best, right? But one diminutive Italian dude towers above them all. Since he arrived on the princess-rescuing scene in 1981, Mario has needed no introduction. You know this guy. He wears blue overalls and ...

(It goes without saying, or it should, but the video embedded above comes courtesy of the fabulous Giant Bomb. The text below comes from me.) As promised, my revealing and contrition-inducing first hour of MONSTER HUNTER TRI for the Nintendo Wii. 0:00 Never have I felt sillier about booting up a new purchase. The whole franchise conjures nothing but disgust in my...

After months of writing about painfully bad lineups on the “Virtual Console Round-Up,” the revamped monthly article “The Newest Oldies” has demonstrated that there are still plenty of good titles on the way for the Virtual Console. Meanwhile, PSOne Classics lags behind, and XBLA gives us the occasional gem. Let’s start with Virtual...

So, as you may have read if you’ve been following the posts on Gameosaurus, we took a break from our weekly podcast, and will soon be slowing down recordings. There were a number of reasons for it, but chief among them was this: I, the Gameodactyl, was awful at keeping up with our self-imposed schedule. We planned on discussing a book, Steven Johnson’s...

(This time with no images, because I think my clever writing trumps screen shots.) February had one classic-ish game on XBLA, three good ones on VC, and a ridiculous load of PSOne Classics (only one of which is worth talking about). Starting with the XBLA release, DARWINIA+ (released Feb. 11) is a repackaging of two games: DARWINIA and MULTIWINIA. We mentioned it on...