Alternate timelines are a staple of the RPG genre, offering up worlds and situations that verge just on the precipice of believably. The latest example of such fiction can be found in Atomic Heart – a first-person action RPG currently...

Playdead, the esoteric indie developer behind creepy puzzle-platformers Limbo and Inside are currently looking for staff to work with the studio on a new, still unannounced project. As spotted by @MauroNL3, Playdead is advertising vacancies...

Opera – as in, the people behind that web browser you might've used years ago – is in the gaming industry spotlight this week. The company picked up YoYo Games, the owner of GameMaker Studio 2, for $10 million as it looks to exp...

The console editions of Two Point Studios' Two Point Hospital are set to be brought up to speed in the coming months, with the arrival and several paid expansions and content packs, previously made available on the PC edition of the lighthe...

To this day, SNK's 1999 release Garou: Mark of the Wolves stands as one of the greatest fighting games ever made, period. Launched amidst a run of fairly interchangeable King of Fighters releases, the ninth - and to date final - episode in ...

Are you looking forward to Dream Uncorporated's charming action-RPG Cris Tales? I sure am. While I've learned to temper my expectations of beautiful indie adventures following a string of disappointments, I have to admit that I'm really dig...

About an hour into Calico, I reached the icy mountain peak of this magical island and found a couple of capybaras chilling in a hot spring. It was a pleasant scene, but I was still getting used to the controls. I walked up to them, intendin...

Beat ‘em ups were never my jam, but when Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game came out in 2010 it completely changed my perspective. A bangin’ chiptune soundtrack with wicked pixel art and characters from one of the raddest ori...

Cblogs Recap: Week 2 -CorruptAI125 discusses the top games he played in 2020. -Kerrik52 reviews Prince of Persia (2008) as part of his Traveler in Playtime review blogs. -Dinoracha discusses the Bullet-per-Minute genre. -Black Red Gam...

It's easy to say that 2020 was a hell of a troubling year. So I'll do just that. 2020 was a hell of a troubling year. Not only did we have the hell of another US presidential election to deal with, but on top of that, there was a pandemic a...

Here's fun. Axiom Verge, the beloved metroidvania from indie developer Thomas Happ has received a brand new update, some six years after the game's initial launch. The update offers PC players a new randomizer option, allowing even the most...

Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator – it's all there in the title. This game is exactly what you think. I appreciate Strange Scaffold's willingness to come up with an outlandish premise and call it like it is. When this point-and-c...

There's no shortage of worthwhile games on Nintendo Switch, it's just a matter of swooping in at the right time to get the most bang for your buck. For some of you, the eShop's New Year Sale will be it. A Short Hike ($6.39) ARMS ($41.99) B...

Batterystaple Games is back with more not-quite-Mega Man-but-close-enough vibes. Following in the footsteps of the action-platformer roguelike 20XX, the studio is releasing the sequel, 30XX, on Steam Early Access on February 17, 2021. If yo...

Frontier Developments has announced that it has been forced to delay the launch of Odyssey, the incoming expansion to interstellar explorer Elite Dangerous. Citing the COVID-19 pandemic as causing "ongoing impact" on production, the DLC wil...

Folk horror is a rarer sight in gaming than it should be, and that's a big part of why I've been keeping tabs on Mundaun, a horror-adventure game from solo creator Michel Ziegler. The setup – "an alpine world where reality and myth in...

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...

tinyBuild has revealed an official release date for the previously delayed Nintendo Switch port of sci-fi hack 'n' slash adventure Hellpoint. Already available on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, the Switch port will launch on the eShop February 25, ...

As much as I try to stay off video game blogs and forums on the weekend to give my mind a breather, I can't help but peek. Sometimes I'll see a story that I know I want to cover first thing Monday morning. The idea of a Wolfenstein 3D-meet...

Third-party manufacturer SUP3R5 has cancelled all orders on its custom black PS5 consoles following a catastrophic launch that allegedly saw the company's staff receive threats from aggrieved customers. As reported by VGC, SUP3R5's sale eve...

2010 was a reckoning. It was a year that saw the gaming market explode with a bevy of independently produced titles. In forgotten scenes reminiscent of the "bedroom programming" days of the late-'80s/early-'90s, talented coders from around ...

Cblogs Recap: Week 1 -Lord Spencer reviews Croc: Legend of the Gobbos as part of his PS1 REVIEWS blogging series. -Kerrik 52 reviews Tomb Raider (2013) as part of his Traveler in Playtime reviews series. -Gamingnerd explores the history of...

2020 royally sucked ass for many people and for a lot of obvious reasons. Quality escapism has never been more important to me than it has been this past year. Simply taking my mind off things through video games is a luxury and I'm more th...

In today's contest you can win a Switch copy of ITTA from Super Rare Games! So, remember Super Rare Games? How could you forget. I give away their newest release every time they pump one out. C'mon, guys. Keep up with me. Well, they're back...

It feels like only yesterday I was booting up the Wii Shop Channel and seeing five, maybe even six games released that week. It wasn't though. That was all the way back in 2009, which is essentially a lifetime ago by game industry standards...