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We look back at the Mortal Kombat wannabes with two games industry veterans from the blood-soaked early 1990s.

It wasn't Donkey Kong's fault that everyone wanted a new Metroid, but it doomed this absurdly good platformer.

No one at D-Pad expected to spend the better part of a decade on a single game, but life, death, and delays got in the way.

Three sequels and several pieces of downloadable content later, perhaps <i>Dark Souls</i> has simply run out of steam.

Julien Jaffrès's hobby is beating 'Baten Kaitos,' a cult classic card-based JRPG for the GameCube, as fast as he can. His fastest time is just under two weeks.

The Waypoint crew continues to grow, as managing editor Danielle Riendeau joins Patrick Klepek and Austin Walker to kick off another week in video games.

A trip to the computer store in search of financial software with my dad became a surprising way to learn about how computers work.

Nintendo's much-speculated-about next console has had its official reveal – so we can all stop making shit up, now.

It was more messily slapstick than outright offensive, but Sega's fighter took a look at Mortal Kombat's fatalities and said: we can do better.

Waypoint Editor-in-Chief Austin Walker explains how 2012's 'Dragon's Dogma' helped to inspire the name of VICE's new gaming site.

For most of their lifespan, video games look like grey boxes and compromises.

And on the way I learned some lessons in respect, humility and brotherhood. Because for these players, this is more than just a game.