Originally conceived as a ninja-themed project by a then new employee, John Tobias, the initial pitch was shot down by his boss, Ed Boon. Approached to make a game for the upcoming film Universal Soldier, Tobias imagined a fighting game featuring a digitized version of Jean-Claude Van Damme. Intending to make a game that was more "a lot more hard edge, a little bit more serious, and a little bit more like Enter the Dragon and Bloodsport" than the more cartoonish fighting game

The Challenge: Complete the game using a group of Pokémon that represent the classes in the original Final Fantasy. Having played the game not only at launch, but numerous times since doing a variety of different challenge runs, I felt as though I needed something new, something fresh for this go around. As the final forms of the starters are directly based on various RPG archetypes, and as I have a love of the Final Fantasy franchise, I decided that a marriage of the two wo

Released in April, Adorable Adventures is a laid-back, cozy game in which we play as a young boar named Boris. Separated from his family due to a wildfire in the park in which they live, young Boris must use the best tool he has, his prodigious porcine snout, to find his siblings in order to reunite with their mother. Doing so will involve a delightful romp around the park in which they live, which is modeled closely after the gorgeous Cévennes National Park in southern Franc