Sonic. Conker. Aero. Gex. Jim. Banjo. Crash. Bubsy. Sparkster. Rocky. Awesome. Going into a game store in the 90s was like going into a zoo where the staff forced animals to go on wild and amazing adventures. Coming of age in the decade was...

Shantae: Half Genie Hero - Ultimate Day One Edition hit the shelves on PS4 and Nintendo Switch earlier in May and, reportedly, is already ghost, having sold out in record time.The Day One edition of the physical release included the 2016 pl...

2017 was a good year for Nintendo Switch, but it could've been even better if a certain insect-themed metroidvania game had made it onto the system as originally planned. The Hollow Knight Switch port slipped to 2018, and almost halfway thr...

Are you still having trouble with that jump rope challenge in Super Mario Odyssey? With the old Talkatoo glitch of dealing with the challenge now patched and the scoreboards wiped, it was only a matter of time before someone found another w...

Enough can’t be said about Inti Creates and its contribution to this era of gaming. I love big, modern, beautiful games as much as the next person, but hot damn if I don’t have a special place in my heart for those titles that r...

When Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night hit Kickstarter, it immediately became one of the biggest video games ever funded on the platform. Its initial $500,000 goal was quickly eclipsed, and by the time the campaign ended more than five mill...

N++ and its 4,340 levels will soon be capable of frustrating you anywhere, anytime. Metanet's masterpiece of precision platforming madness is releasing on Nintendo Switch on May 24 for $14.99. It doesn't seem as though this version of...

Visually striking indie platformers aren’t really that new of a thing. Standing out from the crowd is hard to do in the overcrowded indie market, but sometimes a game comes along that looks so strikingly unique that you just have to t...

Every now and then I'm reminded of my time with Moss and the little platforming adventure game cheers me right up. It's had a few months on PlayStation Network to build up word of mouth and really make a name for itself. Now, it's taking th...

While taking a quick look through Twitter, I saw that My Nintendo currently had a quest based around Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. Put on the website to celebrate the launch of the Switch port, this quest tasks you with finding all ...

Activision has announced that the pre-order numbers for the upcoming Spyro Reignited Trilogy are doing even better than the publisher anticipated.A re-release of the classic PlayStation titles seemed a foregone conclusion after the amazing ...

Xbox has now established a pattern for how it treats Super Lucky's Tale DLC. There have been two post-release add-ons, and both of them have launched suddenly without any prior warning. That's how Gilly Island released in March, ...

The retail release for Owlboy is getting closer everyday, but publisher SODESCO isn't content to simply put the game in a box. Just announced, Owlboy will be receiving a limited edition box for Switch and PS4. Details are mum on what this v...

When I saw that Donkey Kong Country was coming back in the form of Returns live at E3 so many years ago, I couldn't hold back a cheer. It's a series that meant a lot to me ever since Rare took up the mantle and brought Diddy Kong into this ...

I'm happy to see that the reception for Kirby Star Allies has been mostly positive, as it's a great return to console form after such a long hiatus for the series.  Although it didn't monumentally shake up the franchise (it is Kirby&nb...

Inti Creates has been steadily supporting Mighty Gunvolt Burst, the follow-up to their original Mighty Gunvolt experiment, and it's been working out nicely for them. Free updates have added plenty of quality of life upgrades to the game for...

May is looking a little emotional for PS Plus. To build hype for the launch of Detroit: Become Human at the end of the month, Sony is handing out Beyond: Two Souls on PS4 for Plus subscribers. Now everyone can experience the brilliance that...

Digital Foundry just put Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze to the test on Switch, and the results came back positive in favor of the port job. The original Tropical Freeze on Wii U was 720p60, and the Switch edition upgrades th...

Indie platformer Fox N Forests will be launching for all platforms (PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, Mac and Linux) on May 17, 2018. I demoed the game at PAX this year and walked away pretty impressed, so definitely count me in for checking this ...

The beat goes on in studio Koji Igarashi, as his team sink their fans into the development of not-Castlevania-but-it-is-really adventure title Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. A new survey has been released to garner fan feedback on the g...

The wait for Hollow Knight's third DLC isn't quite over yet, but in the mean time, developer Team Cherry has released a new update to tide fans over. Called "Lifeblood," this new patch adds a bunch of stuff, tweaks some of the game's featur...

Capcom TV did another one of its lively streams, and in addition to showing off some upcoming features for existing games like Monster Hunter: World, they also gave some screentime to the Mega Man X Collection series, which will be hos...

You know, when I was asked to review a game that came out the third week of April starring a bearded fellow whose name is six letters long, armed with an axe and magic abilities, traversing beautiful wildlands as he does battle with terrify...

Marvelous, amazing, unbelievable, awesome -- these are some of the synonyms for incredible that I considered using in the headline. When you're writing about The Incredibles, the word incredible is kind of off the table. I eventually settl...

Some of Sonic the Hedgehog's UK fans turned on their PS4s yesterday to find a new update waiting for them in beloved 2017 release Sonic Mania. The patch, which apparently wasn't supposed to go live, tweaked certain features in the platforme...