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I’m going to give my pick to Rockstar, with some caveats. They are my favorite studio (technically group of studios) not because they are known for the best of business practices or the most affable relationship with their consumers, the press, or each other. But the open worlds they create in their games are so […] More
Diddy Kong Racing. Nope, I’m not joking. That game was the very first N64 game I played (and later owned), and that music has burrowed itself to a very special place in my heart (which is probably unhealthy). A good third of my total playtime with that game was dedicated to sitting in the music […] More
Make no mistake, Nintendo is hell-bent on winning you back with a boombox held over its head playing a song that croons, “I’ll give you what you want. I’ll give you all the games you need.” It’s an overplayed move, but you’re a sucker for a grand gesture. Our staff was swept off our feet […] More
Gamers’ tastes change. Whether it’s for personal or social reasons, our preferences for gameplay style, aesthetic, and overall experience develops as we try new things. Sometimes this leads us to explore new kinds of experiences, and sometimes we find ourselves rarely playing games from a genre we loved. This week on TSG Asks we take […] More
This week on TSG we’re talking about games that should have given us just a bit more. Whether providing a small, slow stream of content or being unable to satisfactorily resolve a game’s narrative threads, these games left us unsatisfied. Our question for this week is: I really wish Titanfall 2 had been longer. That […] More
Welcome back to another edition of TSG Asks where we pose a weekly question to the Top Shelf Gaming team and share their responses. With the annual deluge of games hitting store shelves in the coming fall/winter months we decided to answer that most timely of questions: This seems like a pretty generic pick, but […] More
Nostalgia is a powerful thing, but only inasmuch as it is able to recapture the same emotions from which it was derived. It is now commonplace for media companies to exploit beloved franchises from the past to make a quick buck, oftentimes delivering an overall disappointing product. While consumers have become wary of anything associated […] More
Welcome to another edition of TSG Asks, where we ask a question to our staff and then to all of you. This weekend is extra special because we are giving away two tickets to the Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses performance on July 21 in San Diego during Comic-Con. Read on for your chance to enter. […] More
It’s that time of year again for Top Shelf Gaming’s Zelda Week(end)! We’re giving away two tickets to The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses on Friday, July 21 in San Diego. All you have to do is check out our Zelda coverage over the weekend and Monday to find the entry form! The […] More
Prey, Injustice 2, Star Trek: Bridge Crew, and Friday the 13th. The thing these games have in common is that they were all released in May and were the primary considerations for our Game of the Month. It proved more difficult to select a winner than we might have initially anticipated, not because of the […] More
The grab bag variety of game releases this April featured several high profile remasters with Mario Kart 8: Deluxe and Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition, as well as the Kickstarter-funded Yooka-Laylee from former Rare developers Playtonic. Without a doubt, however, Persona 5 takes the prize for our April Game of the Month. The Persona series has […] More
We haven’t missed a week and we (hopefully) never will. We’re just trying out the whole bi-weekly thing. We missed you, but now that we’re back together, we’re celebrating with this week’s topic: What makes a fun party game? Supplemental Reading Why Nintendo is King of the Couch The Loss of Local Multiplayer Part 1: […] More
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