What exactly is the game known as Earthbound? It’s a question I still find quite difficult to answer. Children can get dolls, no longer needed tableware, leftover bolts and nuts found in toolboxes, ...

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I've been really, really bored of games lately and everything I try to play seems to lose my interest after 15 minutes so I'm thinking about trying some classic "old-school" games, more specifically, ...

A few weeks ago, Marcus Lindblom logged onto TwitchTV. He found someone playing Earthbound, and he watched them stream for a while. Every time they smiled in the right place or laughed at the right ...

For most of the genre’s lifespan, “role-playing” was synonymous with fantasy—warriors swinging swords, wizards casting spells, dungeons full of monsters and treasure, et cetera. But one deeply unusual ...

How ecstatic would Nintendo fans be if an Earthbound or, knock on wood, Mother 3 remaster or port on Nintendo Switch came to be? One can surely dream, but if dreaming isn’t enough, we can also play ...