Scott Baird is a Contributor at DualShockers with over a decade of experience writing about video games, board games, and tabletop RPGs. He has been writing professionally since 2013 and covering ...

Sometimes you just need to blow things up. That’s what gets you in the door with Bomberman, the Hudson Soft video game series that dates back to 1983. What keeps you playing is the interplay between ...

The Seattle Mariners made it to MLB’s postseason in 2025, which, if you aren’t a baseball fan, is not a thing that regularly happens. They had last made it to the playoffs in 2022, which was the first ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

Forever ensnared in a love-fued between 1800s literature and modern gaming, Eman Fatima tries her best to appease both her hobbies by tapping away at her keyboard and writing about her favorite games ...

The SNES is a console that’s been well picked over at this point, even by us. But it seems like no matter where you dig, or how long you’ve been digging for, you’re always gonna unearth some new gems ...

The JRPG subgenre is one of the few, if not the only one, that includes its country of origin in its name. Although some Japanese developers dislike the label, like Yoshi-P from Final Fantasy XIV, the ...

When it comes to JRPGs, the only trope more classic than a brutal boss fight against God is chasing down the game's best equipment, spells, or stories tucked away in sidequests. Luckily for us, not ...

Available as part of the NSO Expansion Pack — and thus technically available to play on a Nintendo console outside of the Contra Anniversary Collection — Contra: Hard Corps represented the SEGA ...