Guacamelee! is a gorgeous brawler that proudly shows its roots (preview)

What happens when you combine super-powered luchadores, Dia de los Muertos, and platforming mazes reminiscent of Super Metroid? Well, you get something like Guacamelee!

Classic NES and SNES games for 30 cents on Wii U eShop

Nintendo celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Nintendo Entertainment System with a special 30 cent sale on classic games.

If Metroid’s Samus Aran had a dating site profile

Everyone's favorite bounty hunter is looking for love on our made-up dating site for gaming characters, Extra Hearts.

Incredible Nintendo-themed Risk and why you’ll probably never play it

This fan-made Nintendo Risk includes conquerable worlds from Mario, Zelda, and Pokémon.

These gorgeous gaming posters would look great on any player’s wall

Marinko Milosevski's beautiful posters pay homage to gaming classics like Ico, The Legend of Zelda series, and more.

Dust: An Elysian Tail is beautiful but drowns in repetition (review)

The last game in Microsoft's 2012 Xbox Live Summer of Arcade is gorgeous to look at, but is it anything more than that?

Gaming art for your Facebook Timeline (Part 4: The 8/16-bit Era)

Relive the 8- and 16-bit eras of gaming with retro Timeline covers of titles like Mega Man II, Super Metroid, and Streets of Rage for your Facebook profile.

Beating Ocarina of Time in under 25 minutes and other crazy speed runs

You shouldn't be able to beat The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in 23 minutes and 29 seconds, but thanks to some truly bizarre glitches, you actually can accomplish this incredible feat.

Speed runs are nothing new. Players bored with merely plowing through their favorite titles until they hit a "game over" screen have made their own fun by trying to complete the experience in record time. While the best speed runners rely on fast reflexes and skills (a single mistake can ruin an entire attempt), many also take advantage of glitches to secure the top spot on the leaderboards.

The 6 best game endings of all-time (and how BioWare would ruin them)

Video game endings tend to feel a lot like an afterthought. Whereas a bad movie only ever consumes two hours of your life, games can have you playing upwards of 100+ hours before reaching the finale, and quite often that …