It took me a long, long while to warm up to the "New" Mario series. I thought the DS debut was rather stale and devoid of life, but over time it started to prove its mettle. The Wii version was a slight improvement, but it really wasn'...

Weirdly, Nintendo has been coy about Blue Toad (who was replaced by Toadette) in New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe on Switch for months. Now thanks to its global launch, we know that he's still actually in the game, albeit a bit hidden. A...

Oh what could have been. Following in the footsteps of DuckTales Remastered, Simon Thomley over at Headcannon decided to pitch Capcom a Darkwing Duck game. While the video game arm of the series has been dormant for some time Capc...

Come January 18, Guacamelee 2 will have conquered every platform it could reasonably grapple with. It launched on PS4 and PC in August before swinging over to Switch in December. Now, it's coming to Microsoft's ecosystem. Drinkbox Stu...

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night's dead platforms keep piling up. A few years ago, the Wii U version was canceled in favor of flipping over to Switch -- a perfectly justifiable move. Earlier in 2018, the Vita port was scrapped altogether. ...

Have you surmounted every challenge in Celeste? If so, you better rest up. More's on the way. We originally gave Celeste a 10 out of 10 and just recently named it the best Nintendo Switch game of 2018. It's been an eventful year for creator...

New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, also known as the game that spawned Bowsette, is still slated for an early 2019 release on Switch on January 11. As a reminder the touched-up port of the 2012 game will come with the New Super Luigi U expansi...

Because we're days away from everyone Logging Off for Christmas and New Years, some companies are making their January announcements a bit ahead of schedule. That's what's happening here with Xbox's Games with Gold for January, and Xbox Li...

For a limited time, Humble is giving out free copies of LEGO The Lord of the Rings for PC. The LEGO games have been streamlined over the past several years, making it tough to go back to some of the earlier movie adaptations, but this shoul...

If you're looking for another indie developer to follow on Twitter, Bertil Hörberg is a good choice. He's always been fairly open and honest about how the whole process works, noting disappointments along the way. The most recent revel...

When my positive review of Mega Man 11 dropped, there were sighs of relief, gasps of disbelief, and memes. The most prevalent in the latter category was definitely the fixation on Mega Man's new boss door animation. You see, in the pas...

Human: Fall Flat is the kind of game I can return to year after year and still adore. Its physical comedy just cracks me up. The co-op puzzle platformer has gotten a free new level, "Dark," which is reason enough for me to dive back in. It'...

Bertil Hörberg's Gunman Clive series is one of the low key best platformers on the 3DS and Wii U. After originally debuting on mobile platforms, the western-themed platformer made its way over to Nintendo's portable and even ...

Kirby Star Allies has brought my house a lot of joy these past nine months or so, and even though HAL Laboratory has announced the end of any further updates, I'll continue to play it for years to come. At launch I really enjoyed Star Allie...

I really dug Rain World at launch though some people decidedly did not. Videocult has since been trying to make this gorgeous looking game more enticing, and after a series of updates they're still working on the game a year and a half...

Welp, like Michael Jackson's final tour, this is it.  HAL Laboratory, the developer of the Kirby series and creator of Kirby Star Allies, has announced that after this wave of free DLC characters, no more are on the way. As a...

I'm less and less sure what to expect of Bloodstained, but I continue to hope for the best next year. Today's news doesn't necessarily alleviate my uncertainty. In a message to Kickstarter backers, designer Koji Igarashi announced that Shan...

Like the coming of the morning sun, TT Games has another Lego video game in development. This newest release will be based on the upcoming LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part, which hits the silver screen in February of next year.There isn't a he...

A third physical soundtrack from popular indie platformer Shovel Knight is prepped for pre-order. This release will feature the score from Yacht Club Games' 2017 expansion to the Shovel Knight adventure: Specter of Torment.The 25-track albu...

Nintendo's successful Switch platformer Super Mario Odyssey has now sold over 500,000 physical copies in the UK, becoming only the second Switch title to do so, following Nintendo's own Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.Upon launch last year, Super Mario...

As I've said numerous times in the past, this upcoming massive free update for Kirby Star Allies is presumed to be its last. It's going to be a doozy though as it sports Susie, Taranza, Magolor, and all three Mage-Sisters -- the secondary a...

Microids has released a launch trailer for their next Nintendo Switch release; a remake of the classic arcade platformer, Toki. The game has be rebuilt from the ground up and launches in Europe today, exclusively on the hybrid console.Toki,...

SteamWorld Dig 2 rocks. It's one of those games where you'll pick it up on a rainy morning and play until the rain stops. While it feels natural on a portable device like the Switch or Vita it's perfectly playable on a TV, and now you're go...

It's sad that the DLC train for Kirby Star Allies is coming to an end soon, but I soldier on nonetheless. I will hold out hope that this is the future model for all Kirby games going forward: nearly a year of free DLC. I'm probabl...

Will the free Kirby: Star Allies DLC ever stop? Sure. But for now it's going strong and will host Taranza, Kirby's frenemy from Triple Deluxe in the near future. Her intro trailer is short and sweet, beginning with a quick Triple ...