Stan Hogeweg

When Monster Hunter Rise was first announced, it was both surprising and unsurprising that the game was going to be a Switch exclusive. Monster Hunter has a history of being Nintendo console exclusive -- but only...

Apple has worked long and hard to become one of the most recognizable names in the tech industry. It's gotten extremely famous for the production of the iPhone, the Mac, and so on, but it's a big part of the video game...

Traditionally, May 4th is always a big day for the Star Wars franchise. For many years, May the Fourth has been celebrated as Star Wars Day, both by the franchise fans and its creators. Anyone who has access to the IP...

Nintendo fans rejoiced when the company finally broke its long silence and came out with a Nintendo Direct earlier this year. It was a pretty successful Direct at that, delighting fans with new titles like Splatoon 3...

Dungeons and Dragons has a long and successful history of video game adaptations, and in a lot of genres too. There's old arcade beat-em-ups from many decades ago, as well as modern MMOs and singleplayer RPGs. Wizards...

Redemption narratives are a rare but interesting phenomenon in the video game industry. Sometimes a new game isn't everything fans hoped it would be, but a company manages to salvage the game and make it live up to...

The more anticipated a game is, the more leakers make it a priority to stir up conversation around it. It's pretty easy to get a community excited or up in arms by claiming to have some insider knowledge, no matter how...

The fated day of March 31 has come to pass. Mario hasn't exactly 'died', as all the memes said he would, but it was certainly a sad and important day for the Mario franchise. Nintendo has taken Super Mario Bros...

For a couple years now, the dominant multiplayer pirate game on the market has been Sea of Thieves. It's one of Rare's biggest hits in a while, and it's only doing better by the month. Sea of Thieves keeps getting...

It's hard to find a franchise more ubiquitous than the LEGO franchise. For a long time, not a year went by without Traveller's Tales releasing a new LEGO game, whether it was for a licensed property like Lord of...

Video games are a fantastic way to live out incredible and unbelievable experiences. They're an interactive way to experience having super powers, exploring alien worlds, and living in elaborate fantasy settings in an...

2021 seems like the year that Atlus finally announces Persona 6. A new game in the franchise has been a long time coming, since Persona 5 has been out for almost five years now. As much of a success as Persona 5 has...

Pokemon loves its spin-offs. Nintendo has found all kinds of clever concepts for side games that expand the Pokemon world and give fans different ways to play with their favorite Pokemon. There's been Pokemon...

PS Plus comes with plenty of benefits. While the cloud storage and PlayStation store discounts are nice, it's the monthly free games that really get the attention of PlayStation fans. It's always exciting to see what...

One of the best things about a new year for the gaming community is filling in the new calendar with game release dates. It's always nice to know when there's a new game on the way, but it's even better to know exactly...

Video games studios undergo huge transformations of business models and plans all the time. Sometimes it's a creative decision, sometimes it's just the practical thing for the studio to do. For instance, Rare moved on...

Anyone who was on Twitch in 2020 probably remembers the part of the year where just about everyone was playing Among Us. It was one of the defining games of the year, dominating Twitch viewership, kicking off an...

Persona fans have a lot of questions for Atlus about Persona 6. The form of Persona 6 is largely in question, considering how many people fell in love with Persona 5. Some fans would rather see Atlus come up with...