The story of Psychonauts is one of the happiest underdog stories in recent memory. The original launched to critical acclaim in 2005 but underperformed so badly that plans for a sequel were scrapped fairly early on. The relative failure of ...

Bloodstained will probably live forever in the memory of those who backed it on Kickstarter. It was part of the "actually creators can rebuke publishers and do their own thing" era of the crowdfunding platform, alongside of projects like Mi...

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair popped up unexpectedly a couple weeks ago, and we were able to get some hands-on time with it at E3 last week. It takes the lizard-and-bat duo from 2017's crowdfunded 3D platformer and flattens the actio...

Bloodstained has some secrets. They’re not miserable, but there is a pile of them. In addition to cheat codes and some crafting chicanery, here's how to find a few of the most important endgame boss fights. [Heavy spoilers for endgame...

So Bloodstained has a few esoteric concepts hidden beneath the surface just like a classic Castlevania game. While some are more spoilery than others, I figured I'd take the time to talk about a very simple and very early mechanic...

On the outside, there's a lot to be concerned about when it comes to Bloodstained. It was delayed numerous times, Wii U and Vita ports were canceled, and early review copies weren't provided. But in not-very-Kickstarter-fashion, all of that...

We've got some PS4 and Switch copies of Figment to give away in today's contest! A lot goes on inside our minds. There's subconscious stuff, semi-conscious stuff, conscious stuff -- it's really all too much. So, who regulates all the weird ...

Retro game enthusiasts Hamster have gone all obscure with us again this week, reaching into their bag of odd classics and pulling out Konami's Pooyan, now available to download on Nintendo Switch.Originally released in arcades in 1982, befo...

In this complete whirlwind that has been E3 2019, it's easy to forget about Hollow Knight: Silksong. We haven't seen much about it so far, but Silksong is shaping up to be even better than the original Hollow Knight based on the footage sho...

XSEED Games has finally released a gameplay trailer for upcoming Nintendo Switch throwback BurgerTime Party! which takes the classic 1982 arcade game and reinvents the action for the Nintendo platform. And it actually looks pretty good.As I...

As the saying goes: shake it once that's fine, shake it twice that's okay, shake it three times, you're playing with yourself (today). Lucky's Tale has gone from two games to three, which makes it a full-on franchise if it wasn't already. I...

Nintendo continues to drill down on some of the stuff they revealed so far at E3, and Super Mario Maker 2's Treehouse live stream is honing in on something the company has said in the past: that online play was limited to randoms only. Taka...

1001 Spikes is one of my favorite games and I think you'd like it too if you gave it a try. At one point, I even joking-not-jokingly said it's better than Game of Thrones. Given how people turned on that show in its last season, I think a l...

Ori and the Will of the Wisps looks like a fantastic sequel to the platforming genius of 2015's Ori and the Blind Forest. This afternoon's trailer at Xbox's E3 press conference showed incredible sequences among some ferocious-looking ...

XSEED Games has announced that BurgerTime Party! will be arriving in the west on Nintendo Switch this fall. G-Mode's "reimagining" of Data East's classic 1982 arcade will spice up the old-school platforming gameplay with a slick new look an...

It feels like E3 already doesn't it? We've gotten a handful of new game reveals this week and now Yooka-Laylee developer Playtonic is ready to announce their latest: Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair. Billed as a "platforming adventure h...

Sega's line of wonderful Switch conversions by M2, Sega Ages, is getting a couple of extra entries this month. Both Virtua Racing and Wonder Boy: Monster World will release on June 27, 2019, on the US and European eShops for $7.99 each. Alo...

Yooka-Laylee developer Playtonic Games is teasing the reveal of its follow-up over on Twitter. Set to a short trailer with a bunch of fan inquiries and glancing eyes, it seems more than likely that we're going to find out what the Rareware...

Game Atelier's awesome platform adventure Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom will be arriving on PC via Steam and GOG next month. The pseudo-sequel to the classic Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap will be hitting the platform on July 25. Al...

Trover does not want to save the universe. But guess what? He has to!

Celeste came out in January of 2018, but its journey isn't over. Creator Matt Thorson revealed at the end of the year that "tough farewell levels" were in development, which "should be ready in early 2019." A month later Thorson n...

Although it wasn't on everyone's radar, Lore Finder was funded on Kickstarter last year with the intention to release on PC. As of this week, announced at Bitsummit, it has expanded operations to the PS4 and Switch platforms, and picke...

The newest port of Cuphead requires the most expensive hardware yet. It's not a console that costs a couple hundred bucks. Rather, it's for a range of electric cars that start at $40,000. StudioMDHR has been working on a version of Cup...

So we got a little tease for a PS4 version of Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX (it was previously just confirmed for Switch in mid-2018) thanks to a ratings board listing, but live at BitSummit today, a year after the announceme...

Back in May of 2018, Inti Creates announced Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX at BitSummit. We haven't gotten much info so far other than that it'll be Switch-bound and that it'll star Copen (one of the protagonists from the second ga...