The video game industry has no shortage of remasters and remakes to sell you. From Wii U games getting ported to Switch to whatever the hell THQ is doing with the Saints Row franchise, publishers will always find reason to try and get ...

Pokémon Sword & Shield. Remember those games? They're the ones most Switch owners were obsessed with before trying to master the stalk market or lure Raymond to their island. In a couple of weeks, players around the world wi...

Combining a beloved barnyard animal with unbelievable physics proved to be a million-dollar idea for the developers of Goat Simulator. Even if it only provided a slight chuckle and several minutes of entertainment, the gif-able nature ...

[Update: In a recent email to Kotaku, Devolver Digital has stated that Serious Sam 4 has timed Stadia exclusivity and will not be appearing on any other console until 2021.]Serious Sam 4 has been baking in Croteam's oven for quite some...

With E3 calling in sick for 2020, developers and publishers around the world are scrambling to find ways to get the word out about their upcoming games. Some, like Ubisoft, are prepping their own individual events. Others, like Nintendo, se...

The Elder Scrolls: Blades is an interesting case study. Here is a mobile spin-off of a console/PC franchise that is now making its way back to consoles via the Switch. With a "real" Elder Scrolls sequel still years away, and The E...

One of the biggest pieces of news last week was the reveal of Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath, a new DLC expansion of the original game that will continue its story and introduce RoboCop to the franchise. Not exactly a first-choice character wh...

The Story of Seasons franchise may have been surpassed by one passionate developer who seems to be very concerned about apes, but it's still one of the most consistently good farming sims out there. In fact, there are several games in ...

[Image Courtesy @Sora_Sakurai] Evo is the only esports event I look forward to every year. Where else can I see a guy in a full-body fox costume wipe the floor with opponents in Dragon Ball FighterZ? Sadly, with COVID-19 destroying eve...

[Update: Listings for Mafia and Mafia II have appeared on the Microsoft storefront.] The sudden revival of the Mafia Twitter account led to a lot of theories about remasters and remakes. Today, we learned what it is all abou...

TennoCon, the annual convention of all things Warframe, isn't just a chance for fans to find out everything coming to the massively popular looter shooter. It's also a chance for them to support charities in need. Last year, attendees helpe...

Despite being a free-to-play game tied to a service that has a myriad of issues, Tetris 99 is still one of the best puzzle games on the market. The battle royale block dropper keeps itself relevant with Maximus Cup tournaments every mo...

Is May too early to be talking about Game of the Year? Not if you've played Streets of Rage 4. The brawler is getting rave reviews all over the internet, including on this week's episode of Podtoid. On the show, Charlotte, Dan, Occams, CJ, ...

One of the most exciting announcements at TennoCon last year was the reveal of the Duviri Paradox update that would provide Warframe with a new and possibly confounding open-world area. Unfortunately, Tennos will have to wait until nex...

The road to release for Ninjala has just got a little bit longer. The free-to-play online multiplayer beat-em-up was set to launch at the end of this month. But, due to COVID-19, that's no longer happening. Instead, the official Twitte...

With no E3 this year and COVID-19 forcing many developers to work from home, the next few months are going to be interesting for the industry. While Sony and Microsoft ready to launch new and possibly very expensive consoles, Nintendo has i...

Nintendo's end of the year financial reports featured many bits of good news for the company as its Switch family of consoles scored record sales and Animal Crossing: New Horizons burst out the gate with more than 13 million copies sol...

A few months ago, we reported the Nintendo Switch had already had its best year of sales with still three months to go in the fiscal year. Usually, sales would slow down after the busy holiday shopping season, but as we've seen around the w...

Saying Animal Crossing: New Horizons is successful is like saying Simone Biles is a great gymnast. Yeah, we know. We knew it would be a hit even before the world was stuck at home with nothing better to do than shake tress and gro...

There are many great PlayStation Vita titles that players continue to hail even to this day. Breach & Clear is not one of them. The tactical shooter was met with middling reviews when it released for the Vita in 2015. With a f...

March felt like it lasted nine years but April seemed to pass by in a blink. Now it's May and who the hell knows what this month will hold. One thing we do know is that Podtoid is looking for your listener questions. It is the first weekend...

I feel as though Ninjala has always existed on the precipice of mainstream relevance. For almost two years now, it's been building toward its release, never really garnering that much attention outside of its constant comparisons to&nb...

Despite being called a "single-player," there are actually many one-player games out there that are just more fun when two or more people get in on the action. Mystery Case Files: The Malgrave Incident, for instance, was a hell of a lot mor...

I've been paying attention to Tales of Crestoria since I first caught a glimpse of the teaser trailer released for it back in 2018. Yes, it's going to be another free-to-play mobile game -- similar to Tales of the Rays which ended...