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Mega Man remains iconic a quarter century after the blue robot bombed the NES in part because his games were made of…

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In a bit of backwards evolution, here are technologically complex video games that have been translated from digital…

This week’s question, which we’re visiting amid all the talk around the new Silent Hill and its bizarre teaser,…

Inevitably, everything goes wrong in spy fiction. That’s the sweetest part, the moment you’re waiting for from page…

Sometimes the hype music is more impressive than the main event. Here are seven video game boss themes that are…

A Major League video game on NES should greet players with a character select screen. Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen,…

Despite not being much more than a face, Kirby has never been the face of Nintendo. He’s never as striking as Samus…

Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a…

Like everyone else who ever watched The Walking Dead or read Y: The Last Man, I too used to daydream about my…

Old-fashioned trappings do not automatically denote quality or merit. J.J. Abrams is shooting Star Wars Episode VII on 35mm film

When you can’t use the real thing, just fake it. Here are eight character ripoffs in ’80s Japanese games.

The player is the main character in Tomodachi Life. It’s you, not any of the bulbous digital people populating the…

Welcome back to AVQ&A (Gameological edition), where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and…

“Sabishii” is how Hironobu Sakaguchi described the type of game he wanted to make when creating Final Fantasy. It’s…

Sex is not something Wolfenstein: The New Order should be expected to depict with any degree of grace. That isn’t a…

This week’s question comes from Gameological’s own assistant editor, Matt Gerardi: Speedrunners dedicate themselves…

NBA Elite 11 is an unusual game to have in your PlayStation 3 library. Copies don’t surface often, not even in the…

The moral vacuum of dreams is discomfiting. I’m wandering backcountry Pennsylvania roads, somehow back in college,…

Today’s question is something of a follow-up to our last Q&A about in-game pop culture, and it comes from our…