One thing that the gaming community can never seem to agree on is genre definitions. What exactly is a visual novel, and what’s the real difference between psychological and survival horror? Genres ...

Editor's note: Wow. Did Super Metroid really come out 16 years ago? Jeremy celebrates the anniversary of its 1994 release by discussing how Super Metroid built the foundation for a new genre of game. ...

It wasn’t that long ago people didn’t really think much about classifying music. Genres were few and open-ended. A record store may have had only separate sections for rock, country, jazz and folk.

I completely understand the need for us to classify music and musicians by genre, yet at some point can we draw the line? I am still not too thrilled to see Dolly Parton or Run DMC in the ...

Flourish Klink and Elizabeth Minkel, co-hosts of the fandom podcast Fansplaining, recently conducted the loosest of academic studies, all about literature’s most controversial genre. Their survey — ...