As we inch ever closer to our ultimate fate, Disney is acquiring more and more IP each year. I had to do a double-take to confirm that yes, Disney owns Ice Age now, and regardless of whether or not you've seen the last four Ice Ag...

Apple Arcade made a big splash day one, and I couldn't be happier. Tasked with killing a microtransaction/gacha-hungry monster it helped create, Apple is trying out the subscription model, and the best part is that every game is a premium r...

It's here. It's actually, finally, here. After a seat-of-the-pants crowdfunding campaign, an unfortunate delay, and four tireless years of development, Lab Zero Games, who brought us the incredible 2012 fighter Skullgirls, is ready to relea...

Game Atelier has noted on Twitter that it is once again teaming up with publisher FDG Entertainment on a new mystery title. The two teams collaborated in 2018 for the charming retro platformer Monster Boy and The Cursed Kingdom.Taking its i...

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair has a wildly inconsistent difficulty curve. Most of the game is breezy platforming, and then the final challenge is a grueling gauntlet unlike anything before it. You can attempt the Impossible Lai...

There are 48 bees to find in Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair, and they're important because nabbing as many as possible is the only way most people will get through the final challenge. Clearing the Impossible Lair is needed to beat th...

Nomada Studios' stunning adventure title GRIS appears to be in preparation for a PS4 port. Already available on PC, Nintendo Switch and iOS devices, the beautiful and harrowing puzzle-platformer has received a new certification rating from ...

Once upon a time, the Trine series was heralded as some of the most visually impressive indie games around. Developer Frozenbyte had released the game in 2009 to rave reviews and fan reception in an era when downloadable games were just sta...

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair lays it all out in the title. This is another game that stars Yooka and Laylee, sure -- that much is obvious. But, more crucially, attention should fixate on the Impossible Lair, the endgame challen...

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...

When we all found out that Super Mario Maker 2 wouldn't support direct online play with friends, we kind of had a collective headshake. This is 2019, Nintendo is charging money for online services now, shouldn't this be a given when much sm...

In case you forgot, Inti Creates made their name crafting Mega Man Zero: one of the most celebrated subseries in the history of Mega Man. Platformers are in the studio's DNA, so when Inti announced the spiritual successor to the ZX ser...

Klei Entertainment is low key one of my favorite developers in the industry today. Even if they don't hit all their marks they aren't afraid to try anything new, and have tackled myriad genres like stealth platforming, survival, strategy, p...

So the Bloodstained Switch update has swapped priorities a number of times, and now everyone is just kind of waiting for it. For those of you who aren't aware, the Switch edition dropped with numerous problems, to the point where lead devel...

Fix your eyes at middle distance, that's where most of Stela -- but far from all of it -- takes place. This mysterious and eerie trek through the apocalyptic final days of an ancient world makes the most of its scenery by constantly pl...

Other than the ongoing Switch port drama, things seem to be going pretty well for ArtPlay's Bloodstained. It'll probably pop up in a lot of Game of the Year lists in a few months, and according to a recent interview found in the latest issu...

It's hard to believe that Shantae and the Seven Sirens is just...out on the Apple Arcade (kind of)! I mean Shantae games are an event at this point following the incredible second showing of Risky's Revenge. From Ga...

The masterful metroidvania game Ori and the Blind Forest will be on Nintendo Switch before we know it. In the last week before launch, Moon Studios has put out a substantial Switch demo. It's a chance to see how well the port runs – i...

AkSys Games has announced a release date for Ghost Parade, a spooky-cute metroidvania adventure from Indonesian studio Lentara. Fittingly, this tale of a haunted woodland will arrive on PS4, PC and Nintendo Switch on October 31, Halloween.G...

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...

French developer Microids has announced that Delphine Software's classic platform adventure titles Another World and Flashback will be bundled together in a double pack for release on PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.First released in 1991...

Super Meat Boy Forever feels like it's taking, well, forever. Originally set for April, Team Meat had to delay and set a new imprecise launch date of "After but not too far after April 2019." Now five months later, the clock keeps tick...

Celeste originally released in January of 2018 to almost resounding critical praise, and today, its final batch of DLC is dropping in the form of Chapter 9. I’ve always considered myself pretty decent at twitch platformers, but these ...

The Bloodstained team (which is actually now a conglomerate of multiple entities) provided an update on the fabled "big Switch bug fix patch" just recently, and in case you were expecting it soon, you're going to be disappointed. The l...

Today's contest features a Switch copy of Heave Ho -- you're gonna hate your friends. We keep giving away Devolver Digital games because they keep making games that look awesome as hell. I'd feel bad about it, but I don't. Step up your game...