Among the bevy of colorful titles appearing during yesterday's PlayStation State of Play presentation, we got to see much more of Electronic Arts' Knockout City, following on from its appearance during last week's Nintendo Direct. Developed...

EA Play has become my preferred way of checking out EA-published games in most cases. Rather than paying to buy a digital copy of a game I don't need to own – or subscribing for a full year of EA Play – I spend the five bucks ne...

Among the new titles revealed during today's Nintendo Direct was Electronic Arts' Knockout City - which appears to be a futuristic multiplayer sports title of sorts. Players battle it out in various ball-based matches taking place within a ...

The Nintendo Switch has been missing some good golf games, but that's going to change this summer. 

While it's fair to say it's been taking its time to reach us, DotEmu's retro sequel Windjammers 2 still looks pretty dang fab. The developer continues to tease fans in anticipation of the Frisbee-fest, with a brand new trailer showing off t...

In one of those unexpected "Oh, right... neat!" moments, MLB The Show 21 is coming to PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on April 20, 2021 – and there's even online cross-play and cross-progression. Sony's long-running (and fair...

I've spoken often about how much I love the indie development scene, mostly because it's where crazy ideas can be combined to make something truly unique. Grapple Hoops, as the name suggests, is a grappling hook-based basketball game and if...

Publisher Hamster is heading back to the dawning days of the Nintendo Entertainment System for this week's Arcade Archives release, as the Vs. System edition of Tennis is now available to download on Nintendo Switch. Originally released as ...

How are you at pitching? When you're a big-brained business type, you don't need to sell things. You just need to sell ideas. And they don't even have to be good ideas! You just have to make them sound good. Go ahead and pitch Microsoft on ...

It has been a long, long road to the launch of Dotemu's day-glo sports sequel Windjammers 2. First announced during the summer of 2018, the disc-flinging sequel to Data East's 1994 arcade classic is yet to hit the shelves. Having taken feed...

Kickoff came a day early. The PS5 and Xbox Series X versions of Madden NFL 21 and FIFA 21 are scheduled to launch tomorrow, December 4. However, anyone who owns last-gen versions of those games can upgrade today. EA Sports pulled...

Koei Tecmo has announced a brand new entry in its long-running horse-racing franchise, Winning Post. The ninth entry in the steeplechase simulator will launch in Japan in March 2021. Debuting way back in 1993 on the Sharp X68000, the Winnin...

2K Games has released a second wave of superstars for its rubbish wrasslin' title WWE 2K Battlegrounds. Anyone playing the arcade brawler will receive free access to sports stars Damian Lillard and - the living embodiment of Johnny Cage - R...

All fans of the gory grid iron have reasons to celebrate, as Cyanide's violent sports title Blood Bowl will be returning in 2021, once again bringing all of the violent action of Games Workshop's classic tabletop title to both PC and curren...

There's a new player in the stagnant world of pro-wrestling video games, as All-Elite Wrestling (AEW) has announced the founding of a brand new gaming division - AEW Games. Revealed during a live stream that featured AEW Executive VPs Kenny...

So I missed my prediction of Lakers in five: but in six still isn't half bad. Now that the NBA playoffs have ended and we're waiting on an announcement for when the 2021 season will begin, all eyes are on NBA 2K21; which came out last month...

Sometimes, it can be tough to recommend the weekly Arcade Archive release. For every re-run on Sunset Riders, or Garou: Mark of the Wolves, Hamster gives us a truly antiquated title such as Front Line or, in this week's case, Vs. Soccer, no...

I know some of you are still subscribed to Apple Arcade (hopefully not unintentionally!), but for me, the subscription service feels like a fever dream in 2020. Did I really play What the Golf? over a year ago? I did. I loved it, and I thin...

Earlier this week, we reported on a controversy that had blown up within the NBA 2K community, after publisher 2K Games added unskippable commercials to the loading screens of the latest entry in the basketball franchise one month after the...

The NBA 2K community has hit back at publisher 2K Games after unskippable adverts materialised within the latest entry in the basketball sim, NBA 2K21. The adverts were not in the sports title at launch, and have popped up one month after r...

In today's contest you can win wacky party game Alpaca Ball: Allstars for Switch! The prophecy has been foretold! I covered Alpaca Ball: Allstars way back in the day because I'm a sucker for dumb games featuring animals. Since I'm a man of ...

Another generation, another attempt to sell you on expensive hardware. I mean, I'm always there. I've been there since I started shoveling snow and working at 15 years old to partake in the newest games. But some generational leaps are more...

One of the greatest sports video games of all-time is getting a roster update in about a month. Current NHL players are being dragged all the way back to the mid-'90s. EA Sports has revealed NHL 94 Rewind, which doesn't involve Mario Lemieu...

Back in July, Psyonix announced that its wildly popular socc-car game Rocket League would be going free-to-play. At the time there was only a vague "in the future" release window. Today, Psyonix announced on Twitter that the go-live date fo...

Roller Champions has had a fairly interesting development cycle. It was revealed last E3, with a demo available immediately following the show. But after that, it kind of dropped off the map. Well, it's back now! Although it wasn't part of ...