EarthBound, the endearing Japanese role-playing game from the Super Nintendo era, delivers a very particular brand of surreal humor and sentimentality. It’s part of a series known as Mother in Japan, ...

It’s not as easy to ignore the impact of the 1995 SNES RPG EarthBound as it used to be. Released in America to low sales and a somewhat confused fanfare, including a Monty Pythonesque ad campaign ...

Nintendo might never announce a new Earthbound. It certainly seems intent on never releasing the sequel, Mother 3, in the West. But at least a fan remake of the first game in the trilogy might finally ...

Earlier this month a Mother fan pounced on a Japanese auction listing that was selling a Nintendo corporate CD-ROM from 1998, solely because that disc included footage of the cancelled EarthBound 64 ...

Classic role-playing games EarthBound Beginnings and EarthBound will be available on Nintendo Switch Online starting today. Safe travels, Ness and friends. Nintendo Switch Online is a subscription ...

Drew Swanson is a Features Article Editor from the Pacific Northwest of the United States. He is a lifelong gamer with a passion for a variety of genres. A connoisseur of everything from JRPGs and ...

Blaise Santi is a recent graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts majoring in Dramatic Writing. He's had experience writing not only for screen and stage, but also for sketch and late-night. His ...

The golden-age rebirth of console gaming, largely spurred by the NES's mega-success, has remained a lucrative era for conservationists. There's a whole community out there rushing to find documents, ...

A video game introduced Reid Young to everything he cherishes. His friends. His wife. His job.Young stands a foot above the crowd at PAX East, manning the Fangamer store. His long arms come in handy ...

Announced during the latest Nintendo Direct, the fan-favorite role-playing game Earthbound was revealed as the newest title coming to the Switch's Nintendo Online service -- and it's out right now.