Cloud for Sm4sh. Cloud Strife, hired hitman for a familiarly named eco-terrorist group and former SOLDIER Cloud Strife, in all of his glorious chocobo-haired goodness has been confirmed for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS. But if you’ve been on the Internet at all in the last 48 hours, you already knew that. […]
Opinion / Editorials
Still Think the Female Gamer Majority Only Plays Mobile Games?
Think again. 2015 has become a controversial year for the great debate of whether or not women are actually ‘gamers’, or just casual plebs who stick to Candy Crush on their phones. Despite several studies in recent years disproving that stereotype, ranging from the ESA’s annual report to more independent ones by people like Ashly […]
The Kimmel Controversy
Last week on August 26th, YouTube launched its new streaming platform, YouTube Gaming, with the hopes of competing with the likes of Twitch. Rumors flew around a year ago about Google possibly acquiring Twitch and, looking at YouTube’s ongoing controversies over copyright claims, many people got really, really scared of what that would mean for them. […]
Mother is on Virtual Console and Why That’s a Big Deal
At the start of yesterday’s Nintendo World Championships, we were all hit with a major surprise, introduced by Shigesato Itoi. EarthBound Beginnings, better known as Mother or EarthBound Zero in the west, was announced for immediate release on Virtual Console and introduced in a very personal statement by the game’s creator. The game itself was […]
Splatoon Gives Me 90s Kid Vibes And That’s OK
Remember the 90s? For a majority of people who might be reading this, you probably lived through the 90s as one of the internet’s fabled ’90s kids’ like I did. Remember slap bracelets, Tamagachi, and Nickelodeon Gak? Yeah, good times, good times. Remember GoldenEye? That game was the best, right? Screaming at the splitscreen with […]
Why Sonic is the Best Story in Gaming
When you think of Sonic the Hedgehog, you think of the Blue Blur whose just gotta go fast in order to stay way past cool, right? Maybe you think of chili dogs and rockin’ jams instead. But have you ever thought about why Sonic is running? What is he running from? Is it simply […]
Yearly Sequels: the Death of a Game Series and Games as Art
An earlier version of this article appeared at Gamnesia.com. Don’t let the title fool you, sequels to video games are not inherently bad. In fact, some of the best games ever made are sequels. For example, Skyrim is the fifth game in the Elder Scrolls series, and many would argue it’s the best thus far — […]
Super Mario 64: What Is, What Was, and What Could Be
This article was originally published on Gamnesia.com It was later published on my personal website, thelostmd.com Everyone knows of Super Mario 64. It’s a genuine classic that changed the way 3D games were made, popularized the idea of analog control in a 3D environment, and showed just how 3D could be used to make for […]
Top 5 Uses of Surround Sound on Super Nintendo
This article was originally published on Gamnesia.com It was later posted on my personal website, thelostmd.com This week’s Throwback Thursday is doing a little something different. How different? Well, did you know that the Super Nintendo was capable of surround sound? Strange concept, right? Believe it or not, that little SPC700-powered powerhouse was capable of […]
The Curse of the Triple Dip: Metroid Prime Trilogy
This article originally appeared on my personal website, thelostmd.com It was later posted on Gamnesia.com as a Journal Hello everyone. My name is Claire, and I’m a gameaholic. I’m one week sober. My backlog is over eight-hundred and fifty now, while the number of games I actually play is in the dozens. I play the […]