Anthony Shelton

Tetris Effect: Connected continues the modern spin on the classic franchise. There’s still complicated concepts like T-spins, hard drops, and flipping Tetriminos forever just as it’s about to land, but the modernization hasn’t removed the simple core elements of Tetris’s design: easy on the eyes and

Back 4 Blood proves I’m not the smartest person in the room. I say that because if I were in charge of Turtle Rock Studios, the first game I would’ve created was a re-imagining of the zombie co-op game Valve has, basically, left for dead. Had Turtle Rock

Boot up Kirby Fighters 2 and boom! Title screen. Press start, boom! Menu. Choose a game mode, boom! Character selection screen. How quickly you move through everything to get to the fighting exemplifies how basic and uninteresting Kirby Fighters 2 is. Fighting in this Kirby brawler is so basic it

When Super Mario All-Stars debuted on the Super Nintendo, the box art illustrated Mario dressed in a tuxedo and a magic wand in hand. It showed how special and magical the collection was meant to be. That magic continued by updating Super Mario Bros., The Lost Levels, Super Mario Bros.

As I finished Shing! and thumped my controller on my desk in relief, I was bummed by how much potential developer Mass Creation forfeited because they ignored or didn’t consider the decades of beat ’em ups before it; or even recent successes like Streets of Rage 4. Most of