The Harry Potter franchise is a riddle gaming just hasn't been able to crack yet. There have been many attempts over the years, with different developers and publishers taking a swing at the book and film series, with mostly middling r...
Most of Nintendo's release calendar was set in stone at E3 this year, with its biggest titles of the show getting comfortable release dates throughout 2019 and into March of next year. The one exception was Luigi's Mansion 3, the Next Level...
Podtoid is back and there is a whole mess of news to talk about this week. Game Girl Bath Water is taking over the internet, Nintendo is set to finally kill off the 3DS with its new Nintendo Switch Lite, and dogs are getting high in Colorad...
Super Mario Maker is one of those console defining games. On the Wii U, it represented one of the best uses of the system's tablet controller and offered players a chance to show off their level design skills in the one way Nintendo wo...
Dragon Quest Builders is one of the only games on the market that arguably does Minecraft better than Minecraft. It took the open-world, craft-em-up gameplay of the possibly best-selling game of all time and gave it all meaning, a...
The Senran Kagura series is in a bit of a tough spot right now. Kenichiro Takaki, the creator of the franchise, announced in March that he was leaving developer Marvelous, feeling he was being restricted on what kind of content he coul...
Hey, remember that lawsuit we told you about a few weeks ago over the game Ion Maiden? Well, it looks like it's come to its inevitable end. 3D Realms has announced that, rather than fight it out in court, it is changing the name of the of i...
Tennocon 2019 has brought many surprises, but for players waiting to earn a new frame, this is a big one. Digital Extremes confirmed the new Wukong Prime suit is available now for Warframe players on PC, Xbox One, PS4, and Switch. Wuko...
So much is going on in Warframe, with so many new features announced almost weekly, it's easy to forget about big additions that have already been announced. Take the Plains of Duviri. The area is set to follow the massively successful Fort...
Steven Sinclair, director of Warframe, is excited. He and his team at Digital Extremes are pushing hard on a massive new expansion for the game. The centerpiece of it is the Railjack system, a new battleship players will be able to take int...
If there is one aspect of Warframe that's lacked behind all the other facets that make up the game, it's getting new players into the vast lore Digital Extremes has created for it. There is a lot to soak in within the first few hours a...
Tennocon 2019, the one-day convention celebrating everything Warframe, is underway in a surprisingly muggy London, Ontario, Canada. One of the first big announcements of the show was the debut of two new warframes set to come to the ga...
You might be wondering where our Super Mario Maker 2 review is. Well, it's coming. We didn't get the game until after it released, so we -- and by we I mean me -- are taking our time to do a thorough review of everything the game is an...
Roughly two and a half years ago, Onion Games and publisher DMM released an absolute gem of a game in Dandy Dungeon: The Legend of Brave Yamada. It combined roguelike elements with puzzle solving and ridiculous characters to make for a...
After a two-week break, Podtoid is back and the crew is in a post-E3 haze. As the industry tries to get back to normal, CJ, Chris, Occams, Dan, and Charlotte talk about the best games to come out of the show this year and the titles they wi...
If there is an element of mobile gaming that can still get me excited, it's seeing how developers utilize smartphone cameras to create dynamic AR experiences. Pokémon Go was an absolute blockbuster title even if it didn't w...
NIS America wasn't at E3 proper this year. A few blocks away from the convention center, it set up shop in a Chinese restaurant where the smells emanating from the kitchen made my stomach grumble even though I had just eaten about a half-ho...
Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin has been in the making for some time. Developed by the two-man team at Edelweiss, it tells the story of Sakuna, the daughter of a harvest goddess and a god of war, as she divides her time between battling the m...
Granblue Fantasy is a franchise that's just begging to be an international sensation. Developer Cygames has built it up to be one of the biggest mobile games in Japan, but outside of the country, it's nary a blip on the radar. That's g...
Arguably the hottest ticket at E3 2019 is Final Fantasy VII Remake. After surprising fans with a release date just days ago, Square Enix confirmed the game would be playable on the show floor. On the first day of E3, the line to get a ticke...
I don't expect to be surprised all that much by this industry anymore. Sure, some announcements can come out of nowhere, like Nintendo capping off its E3 presentation with a teaser of a Breath of the Wild sequel. But with gaming so hea...
Since it first launched, the Nintendo Switch has been home to some of the best co-op games on the market. On day one, you could pick up Snipperclippers, an inventive and hilarious game for couples and friends. The Overcooked series has...
Suda51 doesn't seem to be quite sure of what he wants No More Heroes 3 to be. He knows the story he wants to tell. He's currently in the middle of writing the scenario for it, with the general plot of the game mapped out and the smaller sto...
The developers behind the Call of Duty franchise are restless. Yes, the series is the current king of games, routinely topping the end-of-the-year sales charts with only occasional disruptions from Rockstar. It doesn't need to change. ...
3DS-to-Switch ports are something I never thought I wanted in my life, but when the wait for the next great game in your favorite franchise is months or years away, they're actually wonderful stopgaps, reminding you of exactly why you love ...
