Shigeru Miyamoto Isn’t A Fan Of In-Game Purchases, Either

  In-game purchases. Nobody wants them, and yet it seems like more and more developers are stuffing their titles with them. In the age of DLC, pay-to-win, and other of in-game purchases schemes draining player’s wallets, it’s becoming more and…

Super Smash Bros Ultimate News: Masahiro Sakurai is a saint, internet please stop

This morning’s Nintendo Direct was all about following up on the reveal of Super Smash Bros Ultimate at this year’s E3 2018 in Los Angeles. Our first impressions of the gameplay and that initial announcement can be found here. These…

Interview: Iconoclasts Developer Joakim Sandberg On Managing Life And The Dangers Of Devotion

Earlier this year, The Young Folks reviewed Iconoclasts for PS4 and PC; and we loved it. To borrow from that review, it’s an expertly crafted platforming adventure – with a deep story underneath a charming design. It is the kind…

Octopath Traveler First Impressions on Twitch

The long awaited JRPG Octopath Traveler finally hits Nintendo Switch today on July 13th, and our staff writer Travis will be streaming some first impressions of the game that has been lauded for its layered and complex turn based combat,…

The Best Video Games of 2018 So Far

There are already so many potential game of the year contenders and we’ve only struck the midpoint of 2018. As we rapidly approach the season marked by the end of E3 in June, the fall releases will begin to quickly…

Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion DLC Review (Or, A Lesson in Futility)

[Editor’s note: Miles is a contributor whose humor I cherish dearly . That being said, he submitted a review of a game rated  E 10+  by the ESRB with more profanity in its first draft of any writing I ever edited…

E3 Impressions: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

For their outing at E3 2018, Nintendo decided to dedicate most of the run time of the Nintendo Direct to digging into the fine details of the Nintendo Switch iteration of the Super Smash Bros., subtitled Ultimate. There are a lot…