Chris Birsner is a writer and journalist who most recently worked as an editor at Anton Media Group on Long Island. He is a 2018 graduate of Hofstra University. He enjoys playing Nintendo Switch, ...

A freelance writer with over 10 years of experience. His favourite games are Kingdom Hearts, Beyond Good & Evil, and Celeste. The Nintendo Switch is a source of many great 3D platformers with standout ...

A freelance writer with over 10 years of experience. His favourite games are Kingdom Hearts, Beyond Good & Evil, and Celeste. The 3D platformer genre is arguably more synonymous with Nintendo and ...

For every era and generation of gaming that has come and gone, platformers have always been there at the forefront — shaping childhoods, genres, and entire consoles. 2D platformers offered tight ...

When 3D platformers hit the gaming scene in the mid-1990s, they represented a plethora of new possibilities. Suddenly, players could move all over the environment in any direction and see the world ...

So, I just got a Nintendo DS, and two of the games that I've gotten are Mario 64 (never played the original) and Yoshi's Island. I just beat Yoshi's Island, and haven't really gotten far in Mario 64.

The launch of Super Mario 64 ushered in what is now commonly referred to as the Golden Age of 3D platformers. In the years before the arrival of online gaming when first-person shooters came to ...