The best platformer games are those that manage to challenge the player while still telling a compelling story. Platformers of this quality can be found in all sorts of interesting niches and ...

Dark Souls. Bloodborne. Sekiro. What do all of these ridiculously difficult throw-your-controller-at-the TV-screen games have in common? They’ve got NOTHING on old-school platformers. Were they video ...

The "Super Mario" series has become a flagship franchise for Nintendo for a good reason, epitomizing the joys and accessibility of platform gaming. Helping Nintendo become a household name in the '80s ...

Many modern action-platformers aspire to blend old-school ideas with new-school sensibilities, but few achieve the balance of Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound. It retains the pick-up-and-play accessibility and ...

Hollow Knight: Silksong is quite the beautiful game, its music is equally gorgeous, and it tells a riveting story of a tragic kingdom corrupted by power. However, none of that would make it one of the ...

When it comes to video games, the Mario franchise is the undisputed king of... well, pretty much everything. It wouldn't be wrong to say that Mario himself is the most recognizable video game ...

Ever since Super Mario Bros. arrived on the scene and defined what a platform game should be in the mid-80s, the genre has turned up countless mascot characters that have put their own unique spin on ...

Joshua Speer is a Staff Writer at DualShockers who has been covering games professionally since 2013, with a focus on indie games, retro games, platformers, deckbuilders, roguelikes, and Nintendo ...

Jake Valentine is a Contributor at DualShockers with more than two decades of experience covering the video game industry. Since 2004, he has written about games across news, reviews, guides, lists, ...