“Shades on! Mario’s debut on Cube is a historic blinder. Better than Mario 64? You betcha!” This was the opener to Michael Cooper’s effusive 10/10 review for Computer and Video Games of Super Mario Sunshine for the Nintendo GameCube, which launched July 19, 2002. Nintendo’s 3D follow-up to Super Mario…

It’s been five long years since The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall dazzled us with its incredibly realistic fantasy world, and hopes have been high that its sequel, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, can somehow top that. Taking place in the Dunmer land of Vvardenfell in the titular province, Morrowind promises…

GameStop went public on the New York Stock Exchange today, February 13, 2002, for a whopping $325 million. It closed at roughly $20.10 a share, a roughly 12-percent premium on what analysts had expected ahead of the spin-out. The market for video games and consoles hit $9.4 billion last year…

Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones arrives three years after Star Wars fans crowded theaters to watch The Phantom Menace, the first new Star Wars movie in over a decade. And while most folks would agree that Darth Maul was cool and the podracing scene was amazing, a…

It’s been less than a year since Camelot’s excellent RPG Golden Sun rose onto our Game Boy Advances, and we’re already being blessed with news of a direct sequel. Even better news: It looks incredible. Those who have played and finished Golden Sun will know that it’s only half of…

Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls came out last week and while the PS5 version of Arc System Works’ fighting game is going down well enough, PC players have reported performance issues so bad that prominent fighting game community streamer Maximilian Dood uninstalled the game live on air. Now, after some maintenance,…