There’s a bit of a CRT television craze going on right now in the retro gaming market. There are quasi-viral videos comparing how Peach looks in Super Mario RPG on LCD vs. CRT; prices of even the most budget CRT sets have risen from “just take it off my hands” to “100 dollars”, and membership … Read more
Why are forgotten civilizations so ubiquitous in our stories? Humanity has, for all of written history, always lived in the ruins of the past. The Pyramids of Giza were more ancient to Cleopatra than she is to us, and the Egyptians who built those pyramids were far from the first people in the area. It’s … Read more
Western RPG video games have always stayed closer to their tabletop roots than Japanese RPGs. Not only is there a huge lineage of many of the most popular and most influential Western RPGs like Baldur’s Gate being literal adaptations of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), but even the games that exist outside of the license remain obviously … Read more
At Summer Game Fest this past June, it was announced that the much-anticipated Atlus roleplaying game Persona 6 is finally in active development. With that exciting new entry looming on the horizon, now seems like the perfect time to revisit the place where the Persona franchise got its roots. You might be thinking “well that … Read more
With the current state of video game patches and updates, most games are changing increasingly fast. From minor balance changes to fully reworked designs on characters or mechanics, there’s rarely a multiplayer game that stays true to its original form. This is no different for League of Legends. Released in 2009, this multiplayer online battle … Read more
