Over the decades, games and ideas come and go. At the end of last decade, plastic instrument music games were riding high, but these days they're all but gone. Today, hero shooters and battles royale are the hot ticket, but who knows how lo...

Last weekend, after spending entirely too long sifting through filler on the Nintendo Switch eShop to try and turn up another afternoon co-op game, I found it: Wilmot's Warehouse, an ingenious little creation. It's a video game about an eve...

What's the best video game of 2019 that you suck at? I bet you have an answer ready to go. That's one of the questions at the center of the Steam Awards, an annual community-centric ceremony meant to highlight the best and brightest PC game...

In an already shopping-crammed week, here's one more sale to keep tabs on. The Steam Autumn Sale 2019 is running from today until December 3 at 10:00am Pacific with deals, deals, and more deals. First and foremost, I have to give a shout-ou...

The so-called "everything" update for Stardew Valley is now playable on PC and Mac, and after reading the 1.4 patch notes, I feel like I need to hire a personal assistant and tell them to "clear my schedule." I've sunk an unreasonable amoun...

How are you getting along with the new and (arguably improved) Steam library layout? It's all so very... large. And I feel like even if the library refresh was an across-the-board improvement over the original design – I think the new...

The video game hardware company 8BitDo has been on a roll lately, and while its latest device is highly niche, it's also fascinating. The company is now selling an NES-style wireless mouse for PC and Mac. It's as if someone reached into a ...

They did it. They got my first real, honest-to-goodness five bucks for Apple Arcade. I was originally thinking I'd only stick around for that initial free trial period, but I ended up keeping my subscription going past the first month &ndas...

I'm ecstatic about Remote Play Together, a new Steam feature that lets people play games together online even if they weren't originally designed that way. It's available this week in beta form, so if you have any old favorite split-screen ...

Now that we're nearing the one-month mark for Apple Arcade, I've begun checking the App Store more regularly to see if there are any new games to play before I figure out the fate of my subscription. A few more titles just popped up recentl...

When Apple Arcade was first announced, I never expected to one day use the subscription service to play a deep-sea metroidvania game from Capcom. What a wild thought. Even now, it feels like a dream. Looking through the launch lineup, Apple...

What the Golf? is as good as I hoped it'd be, which is to say, "very." I'm honestly relieved! The game takes an otherworldly view of golf, twisting and turning a basic premise in increasingly outlandish ways not unlike something out of Wari...

Anyone eager to lock 'n' load as unstoppable assassin John Wick finally has a date with which to mark their calendars. As announced by publisher Good Shepard Entertainment, John Wick Hex will be unleashed on PC and Mac via Epic Games Store ...

It may be a bit of a foregone conclusion at this point, but publisher Sega and developer Creative Assembly have finally lifted the curtain on the next release in the Total War Saga strategy sub-series series. And, as previously revealed, we...

Valve has made it that much easier for me to see exactly how many games I've left untouched and unloved in my aging Steam library. With today's beta, Steam users can now opt-in to play around with the platform's new and arguably improved li...

At long last, The Floor is Lava: The Video Game is almost here. Don't Starve developer Klei Entertainment is putting the final touches on Hot Lava, a first-person parkour game that we first started following back in 2016. It looked neat the...

There are too many subscriptions in this world, but Apple Arcade – an ongoing library of "over 100 new, exclusive games, all playable across iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, and Apple TV" – is a particularly interesting prospect. ...

Note to self (and anyone else who finds a strange sort of relaxation in video game item management): don't forget to play Wilmot's Warehouse when you're not buried under prior commitments. It's a charming game about sorting and delivering a...

It lives! Kingdoms of the Dump, a '90s JRPG throwback, first drew me in last year. Now it's making a case for a modest crowdfunding drive on Kickstarter and looking better than ever. This game is still tantalizingly out of reach with a 2022...

Nintendo's E3 Direct was full of a ton of surprises, but one of the more striking was the announcement of Empire of Sin. Feeling completely out of place for Nintendo's family-friendly image, the short teaser showed mobsters gunning down oth...

If you were ever going to buy The Sims 4, you would've done so by now. You've held strong. As a reward, the life sim game is free to download. Not just to try, but to keep. Electronic Arts is giving out the PC and Mac version – the no...

"Execution is key" is a double entendre of sorts when combining John Wick with the turn-based strategy genre. XCOM-likes are all about planning and smart decisions, always playing the odds so things don't go awry. John Wick, on the ot...

Final Fantasy XIV has been around for a long time now; it has been nine years since it first launched, and six years since A Realm Reborn replaced the original. Square Enix has a new strategy to earn back some lapsed players. Fro...

Electronic Arts has some bad news for anybody who is enjoying the petite universe of The Sims 4 on a 32-bit PC platform. From June 2019, 32-bit rigs and non-metal Macs will no longer be supported by Maxis' world-building sequel.The Sims 4 ...

It may be the end of the road for the PlayStation Vita's hardware production, but that isn't going to stop Sony's handheld from grabbing a few more releases on its way out of the door. Case in point, Bromio Games' surrealist adventure title...