Inside, a popular indie side-scrolling puzzle-platformer by the makers of Limbo, is headed to Nintendo Switch and iOS devices at an unannounced date. This news comes via a Famitsu interview with a Playdead developer. The game is already ava...

After his relationship with Elise in Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), I guess we should've expected something like this. Sega announced at Tokyo Game Show 2017 that there will be an official collaboration between Sonic Forces and Hooter...

At Tokyo Game Show 2017, a poster was seen at the Success Corporation Booth showing a silhoutte of Umihara Kawase, from the series of the same name, and that reads "The latest entry in the series! Planned for release on Nintendo Switch." Th...

I stopped playing Super Mario Run only a few weeks after launch last December, but I've yet to delete the app. It just sits there, catching my eye every time I make it to my phone's home screen. What'll it take for Nintendo to get me back i...

A new story trailer just dropped for Sonic Forces. It gives us a peek at a world ruled by Dr. Eggman. Sonic and friends must lead the resistance to take down robots that are presumably filled with little animals. Almost every Sonic cha...

With the arrival of iOS 11 comes the death of a longtime favorite for millions of gamers around the world: Flappy Bird. Yes, the most fun game ever conceived and created is officially unplayable as Apple’s mobile operating system will...

Volgarr the Viking dropped in 2013 on PC, and eventually, Xbox One and Sony platforms, and I've made it a mainstay replay ever since. It's a fantastic platformer that just flows so well, and is tough-as-nails, but not overly so in an unfair...

Metanet is putting the finishing touches on N++ for Xbox One and in just a matter of weeks you'll be able to take on the precision platformer's four thousand levels. 4,340, to be exact! Considering how big N+ was on Xbox Live Arcade years ...

I was pleasantly surprised by 2013's SteamWorld Dig, a 2D throwback that borrowed some of the best bits of Spelunky and Terraria and combined them into a charming, snack-sized platformer. The main gameplay loop is more fun than it...

I've been a huge fan of Rayman's revival period. After the Rabbids spun off into their own universe (which even got big enough to crossover with Mario recently), and Rayman fell into relative obscurity, I was extremely delighted to play thr...

Shadow has found his way into Sonic Forces. Sega is planning an Episode Shadow add-on that'll deal with his "mysterious backstory" with the new villain, Infinite, and include three Shadow-centric stages (and the ability to play as him in "o...

Fancy Pants, Fancy Pants... oh my gosh, Fancy Pants! I had forgotten about these Flash platformers up until now, but they served me well as time-wasters years ago. Brad Borne is back this month with the long-awaited follow-up, Super Fancy P...

13AM Games has announced that their frantic platformer Runbow is coming to the Nintendo Switch in 2018. It will also make an appearance at Tokyo Game Show later this month, where attendees can give its unique color-based gameplay a whi...

Team Cherry has detailed its next free content update for Hollow Knight following Hidden Dreams. Befitting its theme, The Grimm Troupe is coming next month with a new quest and a number of other big-ticket items, and you'll be able to reach...

Predictably, Nintendo used this afternoon's Direct as another opportunity to push a little more Super Mario Odyssey on us. That's perfectly fine! We'll take every look we can get. One of the bullet points in the Odyssey presentat...

Lowe Bros.' Indie Pogo just might be the neatest thing I've seen lately. This Super Smash Bros. adjace platform fighter takes mascots from some of the biggest indie studio efforts like Bit.Trip's Commander Video, Freedom Planet's Lilac, Ri...

WayForward, publishers of the Shantae series, have picked up 2015's Steam release Mystik Belle for release on PS4 and Xbox One in October.The game, which combines action-platforming with point-and-click style inventory elements, was develop...

2015's critically acclaimed platform-adventure Axiom Verge will now be available to purchase for Nintendo Switch on October 5.The metroidvania, which tells the tale of a scientist lost in a bizarre world after a laboratory accident, pleased...

I went into Metroid: Samus Returns with what can only be described as pure caution. With such a storied pedigree as a whole and given my personal history with the series, I wasn't sure that Nintendo and MercurySteam could pull it off. ...

Platforming has been around for so long, it's ingrained in us as a basic skill. It's like walking or breathing. We just do it. It's such a basic skill, many games these days use it as the vehicle to get to where they really want to go. Puzz...

The main reason I wanted to get Cave Story+ on Nintendo Switch was the promise of two-player co-op. As these things often go, I grew restless and ended up buying the game early, working my up to Curly Brace before forcing myself to stop pla...

If you jump onto EA's Origin dashboard right now, you can bag yourself a copy of the 2013 mining adventure game SteamWorld Dig, free of charge, as part of their rotational On The House promotion.Once you log in and select the game for downl...

Fans of Playdead's acclaimed grim-em-ups, Limbo and Inside, will be pleased to hear that the physical release containing both games will be available next week.The minimalist moodpieces will be packaged together for PS4 and Xbox One. Both p...

I couldn't be more thrilled that SteamWorld Dig is getting a follow-up. I loved its core loop of digging, collecting treasure, and heading up to the surface to buy upgrades that enabled you to delve deeper and more efficiently, opening up n...

Pikuniku was such a fitting game to play first at PAX West. It encapsulates the show perfectly. It was situated all the way in the back of the Indie Megabooth, an area of the show floor that has gotten increasingly (and deservedly) more cro...