Max has loved video games ever since he booted up his friend's N64 and played Mario Kart. He quickly spent all his allowance on any game he could get his hands on, and spent hours playing a dusty PS2.

A decade ago, I wrote a story for the USgamer calling Pikmin 3 "the greatest war game I've ever played." While USgamer is sadly no longer with us, that particular piece was moved over to VG247, if you ...

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a true masterpiece, and Super Mario Bros. Wonder is the first reinvention of 2D Mario in well over a decade. Both of these games deserve to be recognized ...

Pikmin 4 is the latest entry in the Pikmin franchise, a real-time strategy game that has less to do with commanding tanks or spaceships and instead uses more colorful plantlike creatures, aptly called ...

The Pikmin games are typically hit-or-miss for me. I enjoy them and admire how they work, but the anxiety and stress tied to their guidelines often left me coming away from each play session rather ...

Max has loved video games ever since he booted up his friend's N64 and played Mario Kart. He quickly spent all his allowance on any game he could get his hands on, and spent hours playing a dusty PS2.

Historically, Pikmin has not been one of Nintendo’s better selling franchises. There are a number of possible reasons for this, and series creator Shigeru Miyamoto recently speculated about it in an ...

The franchise may seem cute and cuddly, but something darker lurks underneath — and the latest Pikmin game takes things a step further. The franchise may seem cute and cuddly, but something darker ...

While its features are scaled back substantially compared to later entries, Pikmin is held together by its incredibly fun gameplay that made the franchise a hit back in 2001. After crash-landing on an ...

After a long wait, Pikmin 4 arrived with a noticeably calmer tone than earlier entries in the series. The game leaned into ...

The review embargo has finally lifted for Xbox’s brilliant, gleaming September sci-fi comet that is Starfield and I’ve barely even scratched the surface of my review copy. Why? Because I’ve been ...