I'm all out of beer. I've poured out my entire stash for the Wii U and Vita for the past few years, and in 2019, I started to preemptively pour some out for the 3DS. I need to rent a keg! Who am I kidding: I love those three systems so much...

Chasm came out in the middle of last year, and eventually walked into a room full of Metroidvanias, getting somewhat lost in the shuffle. For many years the genre has thrived, and developers have taken to frequent, huge updates to keep thin...

I shouldn't need to talk you into picking up a game as perfect as Downwell when it's free. Heck, you should probably already own it somewhere -- PC, Switch, PS4, mobile -- because it's only $3. But, $3 is $3, and free is free. For the ...

Coinciding with an already eventful Tokyo Game Show this week, the PlayStation Store is hosting a sale on – you guessed it! – games that hail from Japan (as well as others with much more tenuous connections). The Big in Japan sa...

After teasing us with a "coming soon" at E3, Square Enix has announced that both Romancing SaGa 3 and SaGa Scarlet Grace Ambitions will be heading West later this year. The former will release on November 11, 2019, while the latter lands o...

Atlus is one hell of a company. Following up on its success with the Persona, Shin Megami Tensei, and Etrian Odyssey series, the publisher decided to release a little old game about climbing blocks in a nightmarish hellscape and naviga...

Sony's Totally Digital sale has returned to the PlayStation Store with deals on PS4, PS3, and Vita games running a whole two weeks. There's far too much filler for me to want to list everything, but I've assembled a batch of games that stoo...

We've reached a point where there's always a PS4 sale of some sort running on the PlayStation Store. Right now, it's the Summer Sale – a four-week promo with deals mostly on PS4 games as well as a handful of PS3 and Vita titles. If yo...

This week's PlayStation Store flash sale is a bit of a hodgepodge, but with a few standout PS4 deals including the Batman: Arkham Collection ($23.99) and A Plague Tale: Innocence ($34.99), I felt ever so slightly compelled enough to share i...

Shakedown: Hawaii is doing a lot of things, as an indie, that big games aren't. First off it got a Vita release this year as a new game in 2019, which pretty much everyone has abandoned beyond Limited Run Games (which mostly hosts ports), w...

Publisher SODESCO has announced that it will be producing a physical edition of Teslagrad for both the Switch and PlayStation Vita. You read that last part right: the Vita will be getting another boxed game in 2019! The world isn't ending,...

Sony is a running a retro-themed PlayStation Network sale with deals on PS4, PS3, and Vita games, and while some of the participants stretch that definition, I've spotted a few things for my backlog hit list. This is a good opportunity to p...

Sony is overloaded on inventory and passing the savings onto you. Everything is priced to move, everything must go! Okay, that's the last time I steal copy from my local used car dealerships. But seriously: PlayStation has a Flash Sale this...

Limited Run Games is running a cute little presser today featuring some of their upcoming projects. And guess what? A lot of them are Vita related. The system isn't dead yet folks (though it totally is, as physical card production shut...

I am Sega's terror that flaps in the night. I am the "where's my spy camera" of Phantasy Star 2's western release begging: I even played it at TGS and asked a Sega developer (with a smile) to bring it west in person, in Japanese. So far my ...

Chucklefish is becoming a force to be reckoned with. Not only have they built up a formidable publishing arm by handling several Stardew Valley ports, but they've also created a nice little development house, pushing out beloved games ...

Shakedown: Hawaii arrived on PC, PS4, Vita, and Switch earlier this month, and people really seem to be taking to it. As part of developer Vblank's efforts to keep the game updated and fresh (similar to how they handled Retro City Rampage),...

We're in a resplendent era of one-person studios and I couldn't be happier that those kinds of games are getting attention. There's Eric Barone of Stardew Valley fame, Celeste's Matt Thorson, Bertil Hörberg, and of cours...

I’m kind of known for my elongated eulogies for dead systems. While others are moving on (or yelling at me to move on) after a platform is discontinued, I’m usually looking for backup Wii Us so I can play Pikmin 3 well into my 6...

Child of Light was a standout release for Ubisoft. In an era where fans were becoming increasingly worried that they were just jamming AAA open world concepts into everything they made, a beautiful indie platformer with RPG elements is just...

Catherine is a shining achievement for Atlus. It's out of their classic JRPG comfort zone and managed to spawn a speedrunning/competitive fighting game community out of it, on top of everything else it accomplished. It's no wonder why we're...

Sony typically celebrates Golden Week with big discounts on PlayStation Network, and 2019 is no different. The sale covers PS4, PS3, and Vita titles – a lot of 'em. The deals are now live in North America and they'll run until Tuesday...

Developer Vblank has announced that Shakedown Hawaii, follow-up to Retro City Rampage, will be releasing in just a few short weeks on May 7, 2019. Coming to PC (via Epic Games Store), PS4, Switch, and Vita (!), the game will run you $19.99...

While the PlayStation Vita has moved into its twilight days, there are still surprise physical releases popping up for the Sony handheld. Take for example Retro City Rampage DX, which is to see a limited edition run of 3000 copies, via publ...

Vblank has been busy. After Retro City Rampage brought top-down retro open world exploration back into the fold, the studio has been hard at work on the follow-up: Shakedown: Hawaii. It was revealed three years ago and still hasn't been rel...