It's surprising how relevant Nintendo's groundbreaking Super Mario 64 has remained in the six years since its release. Sure, other 3D platformers have refined the formula, such as Rare's Banjo-Kazooie ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. It may seem like platform games have been all the rage with developers recently, and based upon the number of games in the genre that have been ...

In 2002, the so-called year of the platformer, people's heads are certainly turning, but not entirely because of the quality of the games. Instead it's because it appears gamers are sick of simplistic ...

The platform genre is dying. At least, that's what everyone believes. The truth is, the genre simply has grown stale over the past few years with cookie-cutter revisions of the same ol' junk. But 2002 ...