Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Rebooting the original Actraiser is not exactly a straightforward ...

Actraiser combines 2D platforming action (Realm Acts) with a city-building simulation (Realm Management) in the ultimate battle between good and evil! Featuring the soundtrack that sent shockwaves ...

Fast forward three decades and Square-Enix have decided to give Actraiser a rebirth of sorts on contemporary home and mobile platforms in the form of Actraiser Renaissance, a shiny remastered edition ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. One of the stealthier game releases in recent memory is that of ...

I’m not going to lie, I’m a mark for Actraiser. It’s one of my favorite games from the SNES library for just how different it was from everything else. Blending genres, this game mixed solid action ...

Chris started gaming in the 8-bit era so writing game reviews seemed like a natural choice of activity to protect his brain from further atrophy during his final year in a psychiatric penitentiary.

ActRaiser, the classic Super NES god game, returns in ActRaiser Renaissance, an HD remaster that launches today on Nintendo Switch. Announced during the September Nintendo Direct, ActRaiser ...

Actraiser 2 was one of the more highly anticipated sequels of the 16-bit era for me personally, as the first Actraiser was and remains a true classic. Enix made some changes to the formula established ...

I’m not going to lie, I’m a mark for Actraiser. It’s one of my favorite games from the SNES library for just how different it was from everything else. Blending genres, this game mixed solid action ...