Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s annals. He dabbles in every genre, but he’s particularly fond of RPGs and portables. Secretly he enjoys the Just Dance series a little too much. Aside from writing, Tristan also hosts a plethora of shows on his YouTube Channel, ReActionExaminer.
It’s hard to believe, but it has been another successful decade of gaming. So many new franchises blossomed over the past ten years. Unfortunately, many others, while receiving critical acclaim, did not get greenlit for further sequels.
As of right now there aren't that many 3DS ports on the Nintendo Switch. In fact there is only one The Alliance Alive, which just released this year. The World Ends With You is the other closest example right now and that was a DS remake.
Microsoft had a real up and down decade in regard to their Xbox line of consoles. The Xbox 360 dominated the PS3 in direct competition, but by the latter console’s end during this decade, it eventuall...
The indie game scene began to truly catch stream after the launch of Steam and the Xbox 360. Thanks to the creation of online stores for consoles like Xbox Live, this created a new platform for smalle...
Despite some setbacks this past decade what with the poor launch of the 3DS and the entire mess that was the Wii U, Nintendo is steadily recovering. This is in thanks to them fixing said 3DS problem a...
The highest-ranked Nintendo 3DS game on Metacritic is The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, which got a 94. That's great and all, but we want this list to consist of original games, aka no remakes ...
In this past decade, Sony continued and created support for almost all of its PlayStation consoles. This includes the PS2, PS3, PS4, PSP, and PS Vita. That’s right, even the PS2 got a release as late ...
Square Enix, as a company, has had a lot of ups and downs over the past decade. This list is split between games Square Enix made either internally, through companies they published exclusively for, o...
Arcades are seeing resurgence, and not just in niche Gaming Bars. Similar to the miniature versions of the original NES companies are re-releasing, there has been a steady stream of small arcade cabin...
Video games, in terms of who developed what and who published, are a tricky thing to unravel. When we refer to Bethesda games in this article this includes a few companies including id Software, Bethe...
Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2 are both phenomenal games. In this scenario though, there can only be one winner. What Rockstar game has proven itself to be the better experience? What gi...
Motion Controls became a fad after the Wii launched in 2006. Due to the console's monstrous success, this prompted Sony and Microsoft to copy Nintendo. The PS3 got the Move controllers, which still wo...
Ubisoft has been in business since 1986. That’s over thirty years of developing games! While that may be the case, we could argue that they really didn’t come into play until the PS3 era of HD console...
It seems like forever ago since we last saw a console game based on Star Wars released, but Star Wars: Battlefront II launched in 2017. That is still relatively recent in the grand scheme of things no...
For the purposes of this Nintendo article we set up some rules to keep everything more cohesive. For example, we are sticking to products released in the West. We are also only going to highlight offi...
Leading up to the release of Death Stranding, Hideo Kojima wanted to stress that it was a new genre. He called it a “Strand” game to signify the idea of players working globally together for a common ...
The arcade scene that once thrived in the 80s and 90s is now delegated to certain niche shops along with an increasing trend in bars that have arcade games lining the walls. Well, then there are resta...
Since the dawn of video games companies have been trying to create mascots for their brands. For many years Pac-Man was not just a star for Namco, but he was like the icon for arcade gaming as well. W...
The idea of playing one giant fetch quest to bring America back together again may not appeal to everyone. No one is really dreaming about being a package delivery person, or at least, not in video ga...
If there is one thing Hideo Kojima does right in his games, it is making compelling and/or weird characters. The Metal Gear games have some of the most memorable in the whole industry. Death Stranding is no different, but was the best one?