TYF Column: What We’ve Been Playing

The “What We’ve Been Playing” column is a new feature for TYF that will go out monthly, with various TYF writers talking about what game they’re currently playing. This could include old games, new games or, in my case, board…

Tribeca ’15: “That Dragon, Cancer” Q&A with Ryan Green

This is the second part of my coverage of the documentary feature “Thank You For Playing”, which premiered at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. The film is centered around Ryan Green, his wife Amy, and his family, as they endure the…

Tribeca ’15: “Thank You For Playing” Interview David Osit and Malika Zouhali-Worrall

Thank You For Playing is the unifying of the film and video game mediums as expressive art forms, but it’s something much more than that. This is a documentary about humanity; it’s about love, death and grief and all of the…

The Legend of Zelda: NES Retrospective

This article was written in 2015 before the release of Breath of the Wild. To see how the Nintendo Switch game harkens back to this game, check our review here: There’s really no other experience like The Legend of Zelda…

Gaming for Good: Extra Life

Gamergate has dominated the conversation around the gaming world. I don’t want to get into the topic again other than to say how disappointing the entire thing has been for myriad reasons. Alex here at the site wrote a solid…

What We’ve Been Playing: 3/22/14

Welcome to the newest column here at The Young Folks: What We’ve Been Playing. Here we will spotlight any fun games that our writers have been sinking their teeth into. Any and all video games are fair game so you…

Nintendo News – New HD Zelda, Famicom Anniversary

A lot of news broke out from the air tight vault that is Nintendo this morning. Company President, Saturo Iwata (the mind behind the Nintendo DS and the Wii) revealed a plethora of news for owners of Nintendo products, beginning…