Jordan Biordi

Jordan Biordi covers games with a strong focus on how they actually play in the hands of a player, especially on Nintendo platforms and modern PC and console releases. A long-time editor and Nintendo specialist at CGMagazine, he moves between hands-on previews, full reviews, and features that look at how series evolve over time and across hardware. His work often weighs accessibility, performance, and design choices, whether he is reviewing a new release, dissecting a remaster, or examining how platform policies and content updates affect the experience.

Going Hands-On With Rayman Legends Retold - Old Stories, New Pages

Biordi’s recent previews for CGMagazine show a consistent pattern: he spends time with builds at events and turns that time into detailed, mechanics-first hands-on pieces.

In “Going Hands-On With Rayman Legends Retold - Old Stories, New Pages,” and “Going Hands-On With Virtue And A Sledgehammer - Bringing it Down,” he frames each article around how a game feels to play, then breaks out level design, controls, and pacing in practical terms. His Gamescom and Summer Game Fest coverage extends this approach across a slate of titles, from “Planet Zoo 2 Hands-On Preview: For Animal Lovers And Micro-Managers” to sessions with projects like Tides of Annihilation, Project ZETA, and Murals from Dlala Studios.

Across these pieces he tends to highlight specific systems - management layers in sims, movement and combat loops in action games, and difficulty tuning - so a reader understands not just the premise but what kind of time commitment and play style each game demands.

Pokémon Needs To Go Back If It Wants To Move Forward

Biordi also writes features that take a longer view on major franchises, using individual entries as a way to talk about direction and design philosophy. In “Pokémon Needs To Go Back If It Wants To Move Forward,” he anchors the piece in the series’ recent choices, then argues through structure, mechanics, and pacing rather than broad sentiment.

That same franchise-focused lens appears when he covers remasters and spiritual successors in his reviews, such as The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns, and Star Fox, where he weighs nostalgia against technical execution and new quality-of-life changes. He tends to call out when a game’s systems feel “stunted” or refreshed, and he links those judgments to concrete elements - performance, bugs, and the way new mechanics sit on top of older frameworks.

This makes his franchise coverage most useful when a story needs someone attuned to how long-running series balance legacy fans with new players.

Technology Advancements in Online Gaming

Beyond individual titles, Biordi touches on the infrastructure and crossovers shaping how games are played today. In “Technology Advancements in Online Gaming,” he looks at technical trends around online play, focusing on how new capabilities change player expectations and game design. His gaming news and feature work includes coverage of collaborations like the PUBG Mobile One-Punch Man event, which connects anime brands with live-service shooters, and broader pieces on how online systems support these experiences. He has also written about a developer restoring mature content to a Nintendo Switch release, examining how platform-specific policies and patches alter what players see and how they talk about a game.

Taken together, these articles show a reporter who tracks both the content and the underlying technology, making him a fit for stories that sit at the intersection of game design, online infrastructure, and platform rules.

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Review

Reviews are a large part of Biordi’s output, and they span genres from JRPGs and creature-capture games to farming sims, platformers, extraction shooters, and tabletop titles. On the JRPG side, “Xenoblade Chronicles 2 – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Review” and “Dragon Quest VII Reimagined (PS5) Review” reflect an attention to story structure, progression systems, and how ports and reimaginings handle modern expectations. His scores and write-ups on games like Aniimo, Doloc Town, Splatoon Raiders, Rhythm Heaven Groove, Mistfall Hunter, and Starsand Island consistently note performance, accessibility, and mechanical depth - for example, calling out bugs in Starsand Island’s Switch version, or praising Rhythm Heaven Groove’s approachability.

He extends this same practical, player-focused lens to non-digital games, as in his “Neuroscape Trading Card Game” review, where he breaks down rules and play experience in terms a hobbyist can act on. Across CGMagazine’s reviews lists and gaming pages, his name appears on core coverage for PC and console titles and on specialist Nintendo content, with scores that are tied to specific strengths and weaknesses rather than general impressions.

Outside written work he also appears on CGMagazine’s Pixels & Ink podcast as a writer and editor discussing games, bringing the same direct, grounded style to audio.

Alongside his editorial work, Biordi maintains a presence as a long-time CGMagazine author who also creates gaming videos on his own Ninja-Jordan Reviews channel, reinforcing his focus on how games feel moment-to-moment and how they present to players. The recurring threads across his coverage - Nintendo platforms, JRPGs, detailed hands-on previews from major events, and reviews that foreground mechanics and accessibility - mark him out as a specialist in explaining what it is like to live with a game over hours of actual play.