It was quite a surprise when Nintendo announced it was remaking and localizing its Famicom Detective Club titles for the Nintendo Switch. The games, originally released in Japan for the Famicom Disk System, are two of the few early gaming t...

[Narrated by Josh Picard] The year is 2011, and the haunting, distant sounds of the Aperture facility are reverberating through our unfinished basement. My brother's at basketball practice, I have free reign of the Xbox. I've spent the past...

I'll be frank here: you might not want to play all three of the free games this week on the Epic Games Store. It's not that they're bad, or should be skipped over, it's just that they aren't as high-profile as we've come to expect from thes...

So good but so, so buggy.

Point-and-click adventure fans with a soft spot for hand-crafted worlds will want to keep an eye on Harold Halibut, "a cross between game and stop motion film." I'm sure I've seen it before – the creators at Slow Bros. have toiled awa...

There is a start to everything. All conflicts and compassions require a catalyst, but finding the true zero point can range from easy to very, very tricky. This is the setup of Genesis Noir, an adventure from developer Feral Cat Den that's ...

In today's contest you can win a physical Switch copy of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, courtesy of Super Rare Games! I have two sisters, so I don't think I'm at all capable of relating to this game. Sad! I always wanted a brother, but you k...

For this week's giveaway, the Epic Games Store is handing out The Fall, a sci-fi adventure game about an advanced AI that has taken control of a combat suit after its pilot crash lands on an alien planet. It's an older release – the ...

Dontnod's original supernatural adventure Life is Strange is getting a remaster this fall alongside Life is Strange: Before the Storm. If you've been looking for a reason to revisit Arcadia Bay, this is it. The remastered versions will be ...

During this morning's Square Enix Presents spring showcase, we got our first (official) look at Life is Strange: True Colors, a new adventure-with-a-twist from Life is Strange: Before the Storm developer Deck Nine. It's launching on Septemb...

It may only be March, but I'd wager the cast of Gnosia is the most infatuating group of eclectic weirdos we'll see in gaming this year. The 14 characters that make up the passengers of this wayward spaceship are a diverse bunch, w...

A few years ago, The Silver Case and its sequel, The 25th Ward: The Silver Case, were given the HD remaster treatment on PC and PS4. For Western fans of Suda51, it gave us a look at some of his earlier work, the games he made before he...

Nintendo Switch fans who are craving something a little... out-there will want to set aside time next month for Gnosia, a "social deduction" sci-fi RPG with an unmistakable visual-novel style. After reports of a late February launch, Playis...

We were just talking about the prospect of Tales from the Borderlands making a resurgence in 2021, and hey, it's happening – kind of. After being unavailable on digital stores, Telltale's super-funny adventure game is returning to PC ...

In today's contest you can win Journey to the Savage Planet on Steam! I almost typed out Journey to the Sausage Planet, which would be pretty funny, but not quite accurate. It's Journey to the Savage Planet, and it just hit Steam! That mean...

In today's contest you can win TOHU for Nintendo Switch or PlayStation 4! Fish -- can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em! Amirite?! No but seriously, aquatic creatures kinda freak me out. At least they're good in sushi. TOHU takes the ...

There's something so intriguing to me about solving two-player puzzles with a friend in a point-and-click adventure. That's the premise for The Past Within, a new PC and mobile game from Rusty Lake. If you've checked out this team's prior ...

As I put the finishing touches on my first Borderlands 3 playthrough (I waited for the PS5 version and I'm so glad I did), I've been eying Tales from the Borderlands in my library. I've gone on record to say that it's my favorite Telltale a...

In today’s contest, UK residents can win a Twin Mirror custom Xbox controller, along with a free copy of the game! Are all you chaps in the UK sad that you can never win physical prizes because most of the contests are US-ba...

[Update: Skunkape has since reached out to provide a tease of season two (the Ice Station Santa episode). They've also pointed out that the 2007 original is available on GOG as a free bonus for Remastered owners. They are "in the proce...

In today's contest, you can win cellphone-based thriller Replica for Nintendo Switch! Everyone just stares at their phones these days -- it's nuts. Go to a restaurant, and like 90% of the people will be scrolling through apps instead of tal...

In today's contest you can win Spirit of the North: Enhanced Edition - Signature Edition from Signature Edition Games! Have you heard of Spirit of the North? I hadn't until the kind folks over at Signature Edition Games gave me a copy to gi...

Ghosts are people too. Or, more accurately, ghosts were people too. They need a helpful hand every now and then just like the rest of us. Give ghosts all the help they need in the new slice-of-life game Cozy Grove from developer ...

The second reveal at The Game Awards might end up being one of the most indescribable ones all night. The only way I can think to explain Tchia is through the lens of other games. Like, it has majestic open-world exploration (and para...

I don't know much about Call of the Sea but I instantly respect it for one reason: It's one of the few games that's willing to go head-to-head with Cyberpunk 2077. When most other publishers have turned tail and ran from the Cyberpunk...