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Yo-Kai Watch is a series you've probably heard of but maybe never played. You might know it as “that Pokemon-type game that Level-5 makes,” or maybe even “Shin Megami Tensei's charming kid brother,” as Polygon's Allegra Frank once called it. You've probably at least seen Whisper, the ghost, or Jibanyan, the cat spirit, in ads […]

Once upon a time*, I proclaimed I was going to beat all the mainline games in the Dragon Quest series within a single year. It ended up only taking me nine and a half months. I've enjoyed (almost**) every moment of it. I think I flew through the games simply because of how fun they […]

Video games, more than any other medium of entertainment, revolve around continuing franchises -- long chains of sequels -- to the degree that when major developers unveil a new IP it's often huge news.

Video game worlds can usually be divided up into three fairly clean categories: overworlds, dungeons and towns. Dungeons get a lot of love, it’s true. But nothing quite makes me fall in love with a game or setting like a really well made town, city or village. I love towns because they’re a place where […]

The 13th Story will mostly focus on any number of random ideas and thoughts, but I really want to make it my goal to be insightful. I really want to express concepts and ideas that will help you appreciate games on a deeper level.

Looking at the current online social landscape is kind of looking at a Mad Max-style hellscape of ones and zeroes. But there's hope that we may have some great things ahead of us.