Even now, I can still remember the first time I played Super Mario Bros. I have vivid recollections of my first time playing Sonic the Hedgehog. I will never forget my first experience with Prince of Persia. Earthworm Jim, Aladdin, and, for nostalgic reasons specific to my own life, Yo! Noid all made indelible impressions on me that will be with me until time starts erasing all of my memories. I have a particular love for platformers as one of the absolute classic gameplay elements of my life. Four days ago, I played Rayman Origins for the first time, and a new memory was born. Read the full story

About a week ago, I received a Steam announcements for a new puzzle-platformer, CreaVures, from Muse Games (you might know them for Guns of Icarus).  As soon as I saw the first moments of the trailer, I knew I was going to buy this game!  Imagine my surprise, when I received an email the next day, offering me a chance to review it! Sweeeeeeet! Read the full story

I was searching through our post archive and our tag database before starting this article looking for anything I could backlink to.  Specifically, I was looking for anything that mentioned Ikaruga.  Surprisingly, I found no previous mention of Ikaruga on our site whatsoever, which is a damn shame, as Ikaruga is a truly wonderful game.  Ikaruga!  I did manage to find a small mention for the XBLA Summer of Arcade game, Limbo, however, so at least there’s that.  Now, you may be asking me out loud, even though I can’t hear you (which would mean you’re pretty much talking to yourself, you crazy, crazy person), “Chris, dude, what the hell is your point?”.  Well, the point is Outland. Read the full story