You’re not a video game villain until you’ve made your last stand in a glorious lair that a hero has fought through, and over the years that anarchi architecture has reached glorious new heights. So while I prepare to train a militia of influencers to help me take over the metropolitan area, here’s a look back at some of the more elaborate headquarters for evil.

Whether it’s an indie project such as Celeste or a large experience such as God of War, video games in the last decade alone have reached a new benchmark in delivering mature and emotional writing to you the player. It’s just a pity that the Writer’s Guild of America doesn’t see it that way.

May the gods have mercy on your bank balance, because October's video game release schedule certainly won’t.

We’re winding down on not only another year, but a decade. A decade of highs and lows, of stunning new entries in long-running franchises and the birth of several new contenders in video games who have already made an indelible mark on the scene. The more things change though, the more they remain the same and you only have to …

The Contra Anniversary Collection is on the way, and now we know exactly which games will be included in the package. There are several unique games, as well as a handful of regional variations, which change the games somewhat.

Mortal Kombat was inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame at The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York yesterday. Released in 1992, Mortal Kombat and its hyper violent, realistic content caused controversy. It led to court cases, conversations around the impact of violent video games on children and led to the creation of the Entertainment Software Rating Board to assign age-ratings to games.

This is the gaming industry’s future. We’re powerless to stop it. All we can do is watch.

The analysts over at the EEDAR decided to see just which game genres performed the best across various gaming systems, which saw the NPD group send out a survey to various players. The results? Well yeah, first-person shooters are still the most popular games around, and water is still wet.