Jack Zustiak

The length and variety of the name “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” can only be matched by their history. Some new incarnation of the TMNT emerges from the sewers every few years, which makes for an interesting evolutionary path to follow. “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Visual History: Revised and

Jack: Sonic is healing. Sonic Frontiers shifted the series away from a relatively stagnant decade of games concerned more with recapturing glory days than creating new ones. While it still kept one foot stuck in the past, the other took a solid step towards the future The next step comes

Do you believe in the power of fiction? That stories can change not just hearts and minds, but the world itself? Everyone has dreams, but are these, too, destined to be mere fantasy? These are the questions Metaphor: ReFantazio asks, the latest title from ATLUS, creators of the Shin Megami

Khaos reigns in the new Mortal Kombat 1 expansion, or so the title tells me. Everything seems to be in order to me! The Khaos Reigns expansion adds a new story mode and six new kombatants to the game. Despite being a reboot, MK1 did surprisingly little to shake the

While Tekken has a lot of great characters, Heihachi takes the crown in my book. No one embodies this series better than him. He is over the top, he is powerful, he is adaptable, he is Tekken. Despite his climactic, seemingly very real death in Tekken 7, it would never

Ninjas need plans. I know this not due to personal experience (as far as you know), but the NES classic, Shadow of the Ninja. Your survival in that ninja platformer required having the right plan: good routes through obstacles and optimal power ups will win the day. If Shadow of

While Dragon Ball endures in large part thanks to the genius of the late Akira Toriyama, the passion of its fans play a vital role as well. Something about Dragon Ball taps into people’s imaginations, creating a desire to see its universe(s) from every possible angle and perspective.

Technology changes how we see the world. While it most often affects our view of the future, it can also change the past. Information aggregation, digital restoration, remakes, and various other methods of preservation keep the past alive with the caveat that whatever technology touches will cease to be exactly