All this week we’re taking a look back at Nintendo and Camelot’s Mario Tennis series in honour of the release of Mario Tennis Open on the 3DS.

Today, myself and my brother Andrew revisit Mazza’s unseeded debut on the Nintendo 64, 2000′s Mario Tennis.

I can’t think of a genre more deceptively fun than the management sim. Okay, maybe ‘fun’ isn’t the right word. As dull as they might sound on paper, the likes of Theme Park and Championship Manager can be as addictive as the best RPGs. Based around strategy and grounded in real business practices, the genre continues [...]

This marks the first time that we induct a whole soundtrack into the Musical Showcase vault. This score is so good that it would be impossible to elevate just one of its track above all others. Let’s remember the music of Sega’s side-scrolling Mega Drive brawler, Streets of Rage 2. Series composer Yuzo Koshiro may not [...]

Warning: major spoilers within. Your choices have consequences in the Mass Effect trilogy. Ignore what the haters of Mass Effect 3′s ending are saying; it’s during the game itself where all your decisions pay off, be they through positive or negative outcomes. And boy, are there some intense negative ones. Unless you were playing a renegade [...]

It’s no understatement to say that there’s a lot going on in Mass Effect 3. Story-wise the galaxy is on the brink of destruction. The fabled machine race known as the Reapers are laying waste to all organic life in the Milky Way. Commander Shepard is tasked with the oh-so-simple goal of uniting every major race [...]

Does the soul still burn for the long-running fighting series? When a developer makes drastic changes to a competitive game series it will often cause controversy and prove alienating for long time fans. That’s been the reaction among the Soul Calibur community in regards to Soul Calibur V. Though developer Project Soul has kept the core [...]

With much of the U.K. currently covered in a thick blanket of snow let’s look back at another classic wintery track from the world of video games. Ladies and gents, I give you the Ice Cap Zone theme from Sonic the Hedgehog 3. The stage itself opens with our titular spiny hero (having been fired out [...]

The Mother/Earthbound series features dozens of outstanding compositions that I could easily induct into to the Musical Showcase vault. But given the current time of year let’s zero in on an enduring winter themed classic. Though the Mother series sports a long, winding yet unique history (that I thoroughly recommend reading up on) here’s the cliff [...]