SNES classic Actraiser gets a surprise remake that is closer to a full reboot, but does the weird mix of god game and platformer still work? Whenever anyone talks about 16-bit games they’d like to see ...

Quintet and Enix Software's ActRaiser certainly takes the "god game" genre literally. Blending strategy and platforming action, ActRaiser puts players in the shoes of God itself to expand cities and ...

I’m not going to lie, I’m a mark for Actraiser. It’s one of my favorite games from the SNES library for just how different it was from everything else. Blending genres, this game mixed solid action ...

Back when flannel-wearing grunge rockers were lighting up the music scene, I remember browsing through the video game section at Video Maniacs — a local Blockbuster competitor in Reno — and seeing ...

"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." – Matthew 10:34, New International Version. Jesus' words in that passage have been ...

One of the surprise September 2021 Nintendo Direct launches is ActRaiser Renaissance. It is a remaster of 1990’s ActRaiser, a unique hybrid of side-scrolling platform action game and city-building ...

Chris started gaming in the 8-bit era so writing game reviews seemed like a natural choice of activity to protect his brain from further atrophy during his final year in a psychiatric penitentiary.