Blasphemous might be 2019's gnarliest video game. Its odds are certainly up there. Drawing direct inspiration from the usual suspects like Dark Souls and Castlevania – the series, I mean, not just Symphony of the Night – Bl...

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...

Have you heard about Blasphemous? You need to hear about Blasphemous. It's a dark-fantasy action game from The Last Door creator The Game Kitchen and publisher Team17, and it looks gnarly in all the right ways. I was already feeling the rel...

Worship the contest gods and win a Steam copy of Dark Devotion! We've covered this one a few times in the past, so I'm happy to be able to get you guys a chance to win it. Check out Jordan's preview of Dark Devotion, a 2D action/RPG with we...

Sega has announced the next ten games coming to the Sega Genesis mini and things are looking great. Any fans of the classic Disney game Castle of Illusion are in for a treat, because both it and the sequel, World of Illusion, will be availa...

A new 2D arena shooter is headed to PS4, PC and Xbox One courtesy of Brazilian indie kids Studica Studios. Gravity Heroes is a 2D platform shooter where every ceiling, every wall, every surface is a floor. Set in a near-future, where man an...

The folks behind Mercenary Kings, Flinthook, and Ninja Senki DX are cooking up another adventure molded after their love of retro gaming. Panzer Paladin, the next title from Tribute Games, will let you slice demons in a sword-wielding mech...

Hollow Knight is a masterpiece. This isn't really a new or interesting opinion. People have been shouting it from the rooftops ever since it released two years ago. Soon, Hollow Knight will have space on shelves at home. Developer...

Yell at your Xbox One with our contest: Win an Xbox One copy of Salt and Sanctuary. Honestly, whenever games come out across multiple platforms, I do my best to give everyone some love. Who doesn't like to win free stuff? We gave out Salt a...

Keep your wits about you in this contest for Dragon: Marked for Death for Nintendo Switch! When Jonathan Holmes says, "Hey, check this out," I check it out. It's a simple rule I follow around here. The dude's been around forever, knows ever...

Downwell is a roguelike action game about plummeting down an impossibly long and monster-filled well with style, grace, and gunboots. As Nintendo Switch owners will soon discover, it is exceptional. It's one of those games whose magic can't...

I never like it when developers get pigeonholed into doing only one series their entire life before dropping out of popularity, so I'll always champion when developers try something new. On that note, did anyone remember that the developer...

No tricks in this contest: Win a Steam copy of Double Cross. I'm willing to bet that most of you guys are like me in that you cut your gaming teeth on 2D platformers. Running, jumping, shooting -- these are all staples of my early years of ...

If you've somehow avoided Super Meat Boy these last seven years, make sure to grab it over on the Epic Games store. The hit indie platformer is the second game that Epic will be offering for gratis, replacing Subnautica in the company's fre...

Go ape with our contest to win a Switch copy of Toki! When I was younger, we lived on a naval base for a few years in Sicily. The rec center had a whole bunch of crap for kids to do after school, like playrooms and board games and whatnot, ...

Developer Dodge Roll has announced that the next update for Enter the Gungeon will be the final update to the game. After releasing the "Advanced Gungeons and Draguns" update, there were plans to create another paid expansion, but developme...

The pretty solid Fox n Forests will be getting a limited physical edition on PS4 and Switch. Coming from publisher Strictly Limited Games, there will be a standard and collector's edition available for you to display on your shelf. The stan...

Do you like shmups and shooters, but really suck at them? You're in for a treat, then, as Nintendo has added an easy version of Gradius for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers today. Similar to the easy version of The Legend of Zelda added l...

Nintendo has announced that pre-orders are now available for the Switch's classic NES controllers. As a reminder, these controllers will only work with NES games and are only available to users subscribed to Nintendo Switch Online. The limi...

The current version of the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection is fairly solid, but a few issues with online play still remain. Next week, Capcom will be issuing a patch on October 23 that hopefully squashes those bugs on consoles. P...

Mac users can now play one of the very best platform-shooters in recent memory. More than a year after launch, Cuphead is available on Mac. According to Cuphead's Steam page, running it on a Mac device will require (at a minimum): Mac...

A Kunio-kun compilation is going to be released in Japan this December. Coming to the PC, Xbox One, PS4, and Switch, it is set to include 18 games (19 with a pre-order) that span the entire legacy of Kunio-kun. If you aren't familiar with t...

Fans of Castlevania have likely been stoked since Castlevania: Requiem was announced. Containing the two best entries in the entire series, getting this collection out in the wild is proof that Konami actually cares about the long-dormant s...

A new console generation, a new Sega compilation. That seems to be the mantra Sega has adopted with its back catalog. Unlike Nintendo’s drip-feed approach to Virtual Console (RIP) or Sony’s refusal to even allow for backward com...

I know many of you need a breather from all of the promising retro-style metroidvania games that come through Kickstarter. Even if you cut out the titles that don't bring in enough funding, there's a lot left. We're still seeing games we fi...