What’s in a genre? Quite a lot, in fact. But the most important aspect of a genre is that it gives you some ...

Genre is very much like advertising. We each like to believe that it doesn’t work on us, personally; that it’s not influential in ...

Last week I again complained about what a mess the term “RPG” is. I can’t think of another genre label that is as ...

Game journalists love their shorthand when it comes to describing games. Take the classic example of “X game meets Y game.” Fallout meets ...

Genre, as a tool for cinematic analysis, didn’t really come into its own until the 1960s. Drawing on their literary predecessors, critics during ...

This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the Nintendo Entertainment System. In 1985, the legendary gaming console was released, irrevocably altering the gaming ...