News What A Load Of... | We can't believe we missed Green Day's Dookie being remastered for Nintendo Game Boy That's one way to do a re-release. Oct. 14, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke
Article PODCAST | What's the best game on the worst console? Console wars with a twist. Aug. 14, 2024 Tom Orry 2 comments
Guide CATCH ‘EM ALL | The best Pokemon games, ranked We’ve ranked the mainline Pokemon games, and their remakes, from best to worst. May 22, 2024 Kelsey Raynor 1 comment
News LOVIN' IT | McDonald's releases video game for 25-year-old Game Boy To mark the 52nd birthday of mascot, Grimace, McDoanld’s have released a new, free game for the Game Boy Color. June 15, 2023 Kelsey Raynor
Article MAMMA MIA | A short history of how Mario, gaming’s most famous Italian, almost wasn’t Italian What if Mario had been designed as a generic European guy? What then? April 6, 2023 Damiano Gerli
News MORE KIRBY! | Nintendo Switch Online adds Kirby's Dream Land 2, XEVIOUS, and more Are you feeling devious enough to beat XEVIOUS? March 16, 2023 Kelsey Raynor
Article GREEN WITH NOSTALGIA | Game Boy games are mostly awful, but GBA on Switch Online Expansion Pack is huge Game Boy Advance was a golden age of handheld gaming, if you could see the screen. Feb. 9, 2023 Tom Orry 6 comments
News RETRO MADNESS | Game Boy and Game Boy Advance games coming to Nintendo Switch Online A selection is out today. Feb. 9, 2023 Stephany Nunneley-Jackson
News POKEMON GALORE | There are now 1008 Pokemon in the wild Have you caught them all? Jan. 12, 2023 Stephany Nunneley-Jackson
Video PRATT FALL | We replaced Chris Pratt with Charles Martinet in The Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer Mario's original voice actor has quite the range. Oct. 10, 2022 Jim Trinca 4 comments
News Console Walls | Have a million bucks to spare? You could buy around 2400 different consoles on eBay right now The listing in question likely won't be snapped up any time soon. Sept. 4, 2022 Oisin Kuhnke
Article OPEN SESAME | With its latest update, the luxury Game Boy replica Analogue Pocket just got a lot more interesting Analogue Pocket’s new update fixes an annoying issue with this luxury gaming hardware, and launches the opinion-splitting openFPGA scheme to the public. July 29, 2022 Alex Donaldson
News be the best | Pokémon only received multiplayer battles as a last-minute addition A core piece of gameplay only made it into the original games late into development. June 12, 2022 Oisin Kuhnke
Article advance and subtract | The Sonic Advance trilogy deserves a rerelease as much as the classics do Complicated legal issues aside, Sonic Advance deserves a modern rerelease in some form June 7, 2022 Vince Pavey
News Pokemon for Pokemon | Game Freak's co-founder and managing director has left the studio for senior role at The Pokemon Company They're leaving one Pokemon company for another. June 1, 2022 Stephany Nunneley-Jackson
Article forcin' around | Best Star Wars games, ranked May the force be with these 10 outstanding Star Wars games, picked from a crop of many tie-in projects that have launched over the past five decades. May 4, 2022 Alex Donaldson 2 comments
News Elden Boy | Elden Ring Game Boy demake puts the Lands Between right in your pocket The hit game makes its way to a classic platform. April 25, 2022 Oisin Kuhnke 1 comment
News RETRO WORDLE | If you still have a Game Boy system lying around you can play Wordle on it Another reason to never throw your old consoles and handhelds away. Feb. 19, 2022 Stephany Nunneley-Jackson 1 comment
News You can play this amazing Disco Elysium Game Boy port on PC or mobile Oct. 18, 2020 Dom Peppiatt
News Retro handheld Analogue Pocket delayed to 2021 - but pre-orders open next week July 27, 2020 Alex Donaldson
Article The Top 25 RPGs of All Time #14: Pokemon Gold and Silver Pokemon Gold and Silver aren't just the best games in the series, they have an argument for being the best Game Boy games ever. June 13, 2020 Kat Bailey
Article PokeNecromancer: How An Artist Is Resurrecting "Lost" Pokemon With Amazing Illustrations A little paint and imagination can lift a cold Pokemon from the cutting room floor and into fans' hearts. April 8, 2020 Nadia Oxford
Article Meet Jason Paige: Singer, Cryptocurrency Enthusiast, and the Voice of the Pokemon Theme Song After 20 years, the voice behind the classic theme is learning to embrace his unique fame. March 24, 2020 Luke Winkie
Article Tetris 99's Biggest Fan Is The Father of Tetris Himself, Alexey Pajitnov Tetris' creator is excited to see his game flourish as a competitive experience. Jan. 10, 2020 Nadia Oxford
Article What's The Scariest Video Game Setting? COMMUNITY QUESTION | To continue with Halloween tradition, let's talk about the creepiest environments in games. Oct. 12, 2019 USgamer Team
Video The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening - take a look at new changes in this gameplay video Sept. 19, 2019 Seb Steward
Article Downhill Jam: The Game Industry Reflects on 20 Years of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater Tony Hawk's Pro Skater turns 20 in September, so we spoke to people across the industry who remember the series fondly. Aug. 29, 2019 Blake Hester
Article What's the First Game You Ever Finished? COMMUNITY QUESTION | What is the first video game Mt. Everest you have successfully climbed? May 24, 2019 USgamer Team
Article "The Nightmare Is Far From Over:" How the Artist Behind Garfield Gameboy'd Dreamed up His Four-Color Horror Show LumpyTouch's mock-playthrough of an unreleased Garfield horror game is a terrifying, pus-filled labor of love. May 23, 2019 Nadia Oxford
Article The Top 25 Pokemon in Series History: The Best Monsters From Pokemon Red and Blue to Sun and Moon On the 20th anniversary of Pokemon's release in North America, we rank the 25 best Pokemon to date. April 30, 2019 USgamer Team
News Pokemon Red and Green Beta Images Show Us a Nightmare Alternative Gyarados Beta Gyarados, I most certainly do not choose you. What do you mean I "don't have a choice?" Dec. 19, 2018 Nadia Oxford
Article USG Celebrates Pokemon's 20th Anniversary It's Pokemon Red and Blue's 20th anniversary and we've been celebrating all week at USG. Check out all of our articles here. Sept. 28, 2018 USgamer Team
Article When Tauros Was the King of Pokemon A look back at the earliest days of competitive play in Pokemon Red, Blue, and Yellow. Sept. 28, 2018 Kat Bailey
Article A Bathtub Full of Acid: The Story of How Dylan Cuthbert Went From Making 3D Engines for Game Boy to Star Fox The Super NES's most impressive tech trick would never have happened without a bit of unauthorized Game Boy hacking. Sept. 18, 2018 Jeremy Parish
Article 10 Pokemon That Never Were - A Tribute to the Pokemon That Died Inside the Pokemon Gold Beta These off-the-wall Pokemon beta children never got their chance to shine, but they deserve to be remembered. June 1, 2018 Nadia Oxford
News Pokemon's global lifetime sales reach 300 million, not counting Pokemon GO Nov. 25, 2017 Marshall Lemon
Review Metroid Game By Game Reviews: Metroid II: Return of Samus The constraints of portable design helped Nintendo develop smarter expressions of the Metroid concept. Aug. 9, 2017 Jeremy Parish
News Hyperkin's Smart Boy lets you play Game Boy cartridges on your smartphone June 29, 2017 Marshall Lemon
News Pokemon Gold and Silver to release on 3DS Virtual Console in September June 6, 2017 Stephany Nunneley-Jackson
Article All of the Kirby Games, Ranked From Worst to Best In honor of Kirby's 25th anniversary, we ranked them all. Yes, even Kirby Air Ride. May 1, 2017 USgamer Team
News Horizon: Zero Dawn looks rather cool on the original GameBoy March 21, 2017 Stephany Nunneley-Jackson
Article A Game Design Near-Miss: Double Dragon for Game Boy Why the classic brawler's handheld version was almost (but not quite) its best home port. June 29, 2016 Jeremy Parish
Article Retronauts Catches Up with 20 Years of Pokemon This week, USgamer's classic gaming podcast examines the portable RPG that became an outright phenomenon. April 4, 2016 Bob Mackey
Article Inside the Greatest Game Gadget That Never Was Alex Bahr's homemade SD Card Drive perfected the iconic Game Boy Camera — but it never evolved beyond the prototype stage. Dec. 21, 2015 Jeremy Parish
Article The Greatest Game Gadget That Never Was Gets Even Better How do you improve on a unproduced masterpiece? Make it even more refined... and a reality. Aug. 11, 2015 Jeremy Parish