We've got a contest giving away copies of Professor Lupo and His Horrible Pets --  come win one! There's nothing worse than a horrible pet. It's like, it's an animal and I love animals, but also they can really, really sometimes suck. ...

Enter our contest and pick up a copy of breakout VR title Moss for Steam or Oculus Quest! Being a silly human, I can't say I've ever experienced what it's like to be a cute little four-legged creature. Imagine scurrying around the forest so...

Developer Breaking Walls has released a new gameplay video for their nature-based adventure game Away: The Survival Series. The game, first announced at Sony's State of Play presentation, sees players guide a sugar glider through the treach...

We've gone entirely too long without a new PC game that captures the magic of the original Zoo Tycoon, but with Planet Zoo this year, Frontier Developments is looking to set things right for neglected fans. It's a management sim in which yo...

Cats are assholes. Everyone knows this. Why we keep them around I'll never know. My roommate has a cat, and his favorite thing to do is sneak into my room when I'm asleep and lie horizontally across my face. He'll jump up onto the coffee ta...

Earlier this week, indie developer House House revealed that their fun and funny stealth title, Untitled Goose Game, would be launching on PC via Epic Games Store. This led to some fans expressing their disappointment at the decision, in wh...

Zoo Tycoon is dead. Long live Zoo Tycoon. Planet Zoo lives. Long live Planet Zoo. As Jordan said recently, this sort of thing is extremely my jam. Frontier Developments is handling both development and publishing duties, and it's set t...

I'm back on the beat, fellow animal lovers. The Captain reinstated my badge, the division gave me the go-ahead to hit the streets once again, and I'm all nice and whiskeyed up. Just like a real noir police antihero. I present to you Chicken...

FUS! RO! DAMN IT! Why do I keep covering this kind of stuff? I think there's something wrong with me. Well, I know there is, I'm just not sure what. Good thing upcoming FPS Goat of Duty just announced some new costumes. Battle your fri...

Contests are a gamer's best friend: Win a Switch copy of Little Friends: Dogs & Cats! When I said I was Dtoid's Senior Dog and Cat Correspondent, I wasn't kidding. Do you need proof beyond my already stellar resume filled with dogs and ...

Flock to today's contest for your chance to win a Switch copy of Duck Game! Are you ready to win more games starring ducks?! Lord knows I'm ready to give 'em out! Keen-eyed readers will recognize this pattern I have of giving these away, so...

The time is right for video games that celebrate not just coral reefs, but ocean life in general. That's Koral more or less summed up – it's an upcoming Nintendo Switch and PC game about solving puzzles as a sea current, restoring ree...

Enter our contest for your chance to win a Switch copy of Blazing Beaks! I know I keep saying I'm the resident dog and cat video game correspondent, but I'm also trying to branch out. Specifically, to ducks. Ducks are awesome. They're cute ...

You could get me to revisit just about any dusty old game in my collection if it got a new update that added dog-petting functionality. Real or virtual, I always want to be petting dogs, or at least thinking about them. When my mind starts ...

"Be careful on what you put in your mouth, in general. You may be poisoned." These are words to live by from Patrice Désilets, creative director of Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey. The Assassin Creed creator's new third-person adven...

As part of their recent wave of PlayStation China Hero Project titles, Sony has revealed a new metroidvania title coming to PS4. F.I.S.T. - which has nothing to do with the 1978 Sylvester Stallone union movie - is actually about a pretty st...

The folks responsible for designing the Nintendogs boxes sure did earn their paychecks. It's a pleasant enough series of games, don't get me wrong, but I ended up with way too many versions. If you were able to turn down those precious face...

See that beastie in the picture above? That's a newly-discovered species of shark paleontologists believe existed almost 70 million years ago. The sea creature was discovered after its teeth were found embedded in sedimentary rock, left ove...

Skatebird is a video game about a bird who skateboards in a miniature skatepark with grind rails made out of pencils stacked on top of erasers. It's coming "soon-ish" to Steam and it's too cute for words. Glass Bottom Games assures that pl...

This contest is one to purr over: Win a Steam copy of Cattails. If you visit this here website a lot, you might have noticed that I have something of a similar setup in my contest posts. I like to start with an intro, give some game info, a...

You don't necessarily flock to a video game convention expecting to see fish, but if someone makes the offhand suggestion to hit up a nearby aquarium and the pitch has time to simmer, before you know it, you're committed to spending $35 per...

Life sucks sometimes. Kick back and enjoy a free Steam game! Enter our contest for your chance to win Stone: A Hip-Hop Stoner Noir. It doesn't happen very often, but from time to time I get press for a game that perfectly gels with my perso...

When your game's first bullet point is "Become the sugar glider," you have my attention. Away: The Survival Series is an episodic adventure series in which animals have inherited the post-apocalyptic earth. In the first episode, you'll play...

31 years ago a man was born. That man liked bunnies and foxes and ninjas, and as luck would have it, carrots were one of his favorite healthy snacks growing up. Fast forward to today and that man really likes bunnies and foxes and ninjas, a...

I've already filed Spirit of the North in my mind as "that chill fox game." The upcoming third-person adventure has players exploring Iceland-inspired scenery as a red fox. You'll solve light environmental puzzles, and that's basically it. ...