TYF’s Top 10 Nintendo 64 games

This week marks the 20th anniversary of Nintendo’s final cartridge based home console, the Nintendo 64, and the release of Super Mario 64 along with it. Since Nintendo’s venture into creating their traditional games into a 3D polygonal perspective, the…

E3 2016 Nintendo: Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild

Oh, Nintendo. Every time you show a new Zelda game, it’s like you’re owning another little piece of my soul. This Wii U game was previously demoed by lead developer Eiji Aonuma and series creator Shigeru Miyamoto at The Game…

TYF Column: What We’ve Been Playing May ’16

Happy Summer, fellow gamers! Where decades before we gamers had very little to work with and were forced to kind of actually go outside, there’s just a nonstop floodgate of games in 2016, and in our new binge culture its…

TYF’s Picks for The Game Awards 2015

Geoff Keighley of the long dead G4 gaming network had spearheaded a new moment in video game history with his first The Game Awards show last December, which exclusively aired on streaming networks from Twitch.TV to Xbox Live. Critics and developers in the…

Mr. Iwata & Nintendo’s Legacy

“On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.” – Iwata GDC 2005 Nintendo’s president, Satoru Iwata, passed away on July 11th due to…

The Legend of Zelda: NES Retrospective

This article was written in 2015 before the release of Breath of the Wild. To see how the Nintendo Switch game harkens back to this game, check our review here: There’s really no other experience like The Legend of Zelda…

An Inside Look at “POWERS” – PlayStation Exclusive Series

Sony’s PlayStation Network for subscribed fans of the platform is taking it’s placement on the “streaming-only series” train. Game consoles have been on a long stretch of legitimizing themselves as multimedia machines, and in our era of Netflix, online streaming…