If I was ever going to get into the free-to-play Monster Hunter alternative Dauntless, it'd probably happen on Nintendo Switch. As of this morning's Nintendo Indie World showcase, I have something new to queue up on my lovable little consol...

The well-deserved legacy of Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath lives on with ports, and next year, we're getting another one: a Switch version. During this morning's Nintendo Indie World showcase, Oddworld Inhabitants, Inc. announced a January 23, ...

Nintendo capped off today's Indie World showcase with a surprise sequel: Axiom Verge 2. During the pre-recorded stream, Axiom Verge creator Tom Happ thanked fans for showing his metroidvania game so much love over the years. We saw a bit o...

Have you played The Talos Principle yet? You should play The Talos Principle. It's a masterful game that ends up being far more than you'd ever expect. I'd recommend it to any and all puzzle fans. The Talos Principle: Deluxe Edition is com...

The beloved golfing adventure title Golf Story is getting a Nintendo Switch sequel next year. During the Nintendo Indie World showcase, Sidebar Games showed off the wacky new sequel, Sports Story. Apart from golf and a bit of tennis, we ca...

Just in case you haven't had your fill of live streams for the morning, Nintendo is rolling into lunchtime with a fresh look at some of the delightful indie titles headed your way in the near future.The Indie World Showcase will feature 20...

A very quiet week for new releases led to a general stagnancy in the high street last week, as Electronic Arts' football sim FIFA 20 retained the top spot of the UK Charts.The Top Ten generally consisted of high-selling titles jostling for ...

Back when Pokémon Sun and Moon released, I hopped onto Smogon.com and took a stroll around the Uncharted Territory forum to explore the potential of a lot of the newer Pokémon. A lot of them held down their posi...

Japanese developer Beep has announced that its old-school shmup Cotton! Reboot has slipped from its spring 2020 release window, and is now expected to launch in the summer.Cotton Reboot was originally announced back in May, and is a modern-...

So there's a few things I've been picking up on since really getting into the Pokemon Sword and Shield endgame. 250-strong Pokedex? Ha! It's 360 now: I basically just need cross-game exclusives, which I'll get from my copy of Shie...

Five Nights at Freddy's really falls into that "single developer" category that's been so prevalent in the 2010s. Scott Cawthon is responsible for a multi-million-dollar empire, alongside of recent solo studio names like Matt Thorson, Toby ...

If there is one thing the Nintendo Switch has it's indie games. Hundreds of them, across many different genres from developers all across the world. In 2019, some amazing small studio projects hit the console, from Wargroove to Baba is...

This week sees an exciting new update arrive for Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, with the addition of new games Shovel Knight: Showdown and Shovel Knight: King of Cards. While PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One owners can expect the update to drop...

Darksiders is a wild series. On one hand, you know most of the cast of those games wear Jack Skellington sweatshirts as loungewear. On the other, they also star in pretty fun action-adventure romps. You take the good, you take the bad....

This week's retro release from Hamster lets players fly the adorable skies of 1985, with a port of Konami's cuddly shoot-'em-up TwinBee, now available to download on Nintendo Switch.Back in 1985, the shmup scene was really starting to come ...

I'm sure I'm not unique in saying this but I've had a lifelong affinity for theme parks. It's always been my dream to pull a Dolly Parton and buy one to call my own. I know that's not going to happen -- Destructoid doesn't pay that wel...

It feels like a small miracle that Saber Interactive was able to port The Witcher 3 to Switch. CD Projekt's best game thus far is huge, beautifully detailed, and full of fast combat. There were some technical hiccups on PS4 and Xbox On...

The Switch, like the 3DS, exhumes personality. I just love that little "snap" when you break off pieces of the Joy-Con and slap them back into the system, but a recent update introduced a harrowing, spooky change: the little "click" animati...

Spotify is currently available on Xbox One and PS4. Why not Switch? Well, it's complicated. For one, the Switch doesn't have a lot of apps on it right now. That's bad! But the Switch would be (wait for it) perfect for Spotify, given that it...

Interstellar twin-stick shooter XenoRaptor, already available on PC via Steam, will be headed to PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch this month. An energetic trailer was released by publisher Digerati to announce the console ports.Developed b...

Nintendo has announced that - in regards to U.S. sales - the week of November 24 to November 30 was the most successful week in the history of the Switch. A combined total of around 830,000 Switch and Switch Lite units were sold in America ...

This is it, don't get scared now. 2019 is coming to an end. Oh no! At least we have a ton of amazing things lined up for 2020, as well as two new console launches (PS4/Scarlett). It's going to be a crazy year. For now, we have to wrap up th...

[Update: As a reminder, you have until 7PM ET today to register for the first online competition. Make sure you get on it!] The season of Pokemon battling is upon us yet again, and this time it'll be with a completely new meta now that a to...

Pokemon Sword and Shield has a ton of layers underneath the surface, and a lot of them are predicated on the Wild Area. As soon as you gain the ability to surf (along Route 9 below Circhester, as part of the story), you'll want to head...

Remember that Dark Crystal game? We sort of heard about it at E3 this year and that it would have a vague "2019" release date, but like many of those projects that drift into December with a looming window, it's been pushed into 2020. ...