Americana's breadth is as deep as it is wide. The genre embraces artists playing everything from gospel to pop, R&B to country, folk to soul; it's not so much about a particular sound as it is about a ...

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 ...

(16) These propositions work to undermine formal efforts at genre definition by stripping away their premises (1-3), before moving to a positive identification of sf as something continually produced ...

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. ...

Nowadays, genre definitions seem to matter little. With so many games blending the lines between what an RPG is and what constitutes an MMO, it’s already hard enough to define most games. Yet, it ...