Patrick Hope
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These days, it’s hard to imagine the “Mario” universe without Mario’s fat, cackling, Snidely Whiplash mustachio-ed evil, or at least amoral, counterpart, Wario. He’s managed to insert himself into pretty...
So I’m in the process of moving. And moving means that I’m packing up my games. It also means that I come into contact with games I legitimately forgot existed...
You may remember, back in February, I wrote about romance in video games. If you want a quick recap, here it is — it’s really hard to do right. Even...
Death is one of the most basic plot devices in fiction. It can be effective, desensitize you to the whole thing, or feel like a way to get some cheap...
No discussion of series that have inspired more than their fair share of clones, homages or whatever would be complete without the army of “Zelda” clones out there. From copies...
It’s not really news that we’re in the midst of a kind of adventure game renaissance, thanks in no small part to the telltale episodic series’ which make use of...
Lately I’ve been playing “Batman: Arkham Knight.” It’s a big game. A really big game. In fact, it might be too big. In amongst trying to stop Scarecrow, tracking down...
Lately I’ve been playing “Batman: Arkham Knight.” It’s a big game. A really big game. In fact, it might be too big. In amongst trying to stop Scarecrow, tracking down...
You may have noticed that over, oh, the past 20 or so years, Nintendo has had a problem with getting third-party developers to work on their systems. Ever since the...
Over the almost two years that Welcome to Bonus Stage has been around, I’ve covered quite a few of the games, characters and moments that really shaped the hobby for...
