Scanline Talks

Whether touching, hilarious, sick af or what have you, games have always been good at creating moments you just have to tell others about. Let's talk about those moments. The No...

Is this where I make a "ya like jazz" joke? That's Our Jam is our music category, and we want a song that isn't just good to listen to, it's also good in game, and just generally a...

Remasters. Remakes. Whatever you want to call them, they are here to stay. The PS3/360 generation poked its foot in the door with these, and now they live here. I have pretty mixed...

You could also call this Best Old Game, if you hated being pithy and also wanted to insult these games. But in any year, MOST of the games we play aren't from that year. They're fr...

The difference between Chinese and Japanese, aka "Riichi" mahjong, is the concept of the Yaku. Basically, it's a bunch of special forms your hand can take that allow you to call a ...

There are a lot of bad things about the way technology has allowed games to be changed. Gacha mechanics. Live service hellscapes. Free to play torture. Patching out things that are...

We're pretty heavily invested in good writing in games around here. This also leads to a love of a well-written and rendered character. But we're also kinda queer dopes, so sometim...

Even when a Gundam show is bad, you often get good model kits out of it. That's the blessing of this hobby: even when you lose, you can win. Plenty of good Gundam plastic model kit...

This is the longest list of nominees for any category, and there's a reason for that. Around here, we love action and fighting games. And out of all the playstyles created for them...

As much as we love surprises, it can swing very hard the other way. Sometimes you are all primed to love a game and it just whiffs, hard. It is therapeutic to vent your frustration...

Who doesn't love a good surprise? It's nice to look forward to games, and have them come out and be everything you want. But what about things you didn't know you wanted, or didn't...

When you start streaming, you quickly learn that there is a difference between a game that's good and a game that's good to stream. Certainly, lots of good games also stream well. ...