GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. As part of the September Nintendo Direct, Nintendo made an announcement basically no one was expecting. Square Enix's 1991 SNES game ...

The mobile arena is subject to a high volume of retro ports. Sometimes, when a console or arcade favorite of yesteryear goes wireless, the result can be quite satisfying, such as in recent cases of ...

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 ...

Some good news for RPG fans, Actraiser is one of this week’s Virtual Console games. Back in 1991 Enix released Actraiser for the Super Nintendo, but the religious undercurrent was cut out for the ...

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 ...

Back when flannel-wearing grunge rockers were lighting up the music scene, I remember browsing through the video game section at Video Maniacs — a local Blockbuster competitor in Reno — and seeing ...

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 ...

The newly announced SNES Classic Edition looks awesome, no doubt about it. Almost every one of its 21 games is a great choice. I won't hear otherwise. That said, there are some notable omissions.

The SNES helped drive the rise of JRPGs, but many games in its catalog are still stuck on the system.

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.