One way Capcom has always done right by the Mega Man series is merch. It didn't matter what the status of any given series or subseries was: at any point in the franchise's 30 year history, there was oodles of merch, much of which was ...

The Umihara Kawase (a play on words involving a Japanese idiom about fish) series is making a comeback. After a strong showing in the '90s the series kind of retreated for a bit, only to pop back up in 2008 on the PSP, and then again on the...

Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn might have extra requirements when it launches in 2019 on 3DS. While the Nintendo Direct merely announced that the Wii port with extras was coming to their 3DS portable line, their official website has since been upd...

A Hat in Time can only be described as lovely. It took Gears for Breakfast six years but they finally pushed it out the door, and eventually fans will get their Nintendo platform port: even if the Wii U is out of the picture (yes it's been ...

A Hat in Time was released roughly a year ago, and now it has PS4 and Xbox One versions, as well as a future Switch port under its belt. This week it's also getting a free co-op update and free/paid DLC. Let me explain that latter bit for a...

A Hat in Time is getting ready to release a major DLC: Seal the Deal, this week. The first major half, Death Wish (challenge room-esque stuff), is accessible basically with an end game file with 27 time pieces. Anyone who's finished the mai...

I'm not exactly sure how much laughing is appropriate during the demo for The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories. The title, due out for PC and all major consoles this year, is the latest project from avant-garde game designe...

There was supposed to be a Nintendo Direct yesterday, but an earthquake and general dangerous state of affairs in Japan delayed it. Several publishers had to sort of make due with the situation, as seen with the surprise Mega Man 11 Sw...

Inti Creates is one of the more reliable supporters of Nintendo hardware. Its games are a shining beacon of quality on the 3DS and its Switch output is quickly matching that same level of excellence. The developer jumped on board quite quic...

THQ Nordic has announced that retro-influenced platform adventure Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, is coming to Switch, with both its DLC expansion and further new content, as The Owltimate Edition.Twisted Dreams was the 2012 sequel to 1987's...

One of my favorite parts of covering expos is watching developers refine their games over the years, especially when it's smaller projects that blossom into something much more substantial. That's definitely the case with Super Meat Boy For...

Spelunky 2 is in good hands. That wasn't really a concern, but it's nice to have confirmed all the same. I took the opening hour of PAX as my chance to find the roguelike action-platformer sequel tucked away in the PlayStation booth and tri...

So far Capcom has revealed Mega Man 11's Torch Man, Blast Man, Block Man, and Fuse Man, all of which seem to have a ton of personality thanks to their cute but memorable designs and full voice acting (and puns!). Now to kick off their showi...

It's immediately obvious at first glance that Sabotage Studios' retro-inspired platformer The Messenger owes a debt of gratitude to the classic Ninja Gaiden titles of the late '80s/early '90s. But what would those original 8-bit developers ...

After 800 million years in development (all numbers approximate), Chasm finally released in late July on PC, PS4, and Vita. It was pretty dang good! This procedurally-generated metroidvania was a success, even in a launch window that w...

Most of Tyler: Model 005 is spent in the dark -- proverbially and literally. The darkness saps this little robot's battery and the light recharges it. That's the central mechanic. But it's also an amnesic tale of sorts where Tyler, the...

When Guacamelee first dropped in 2013 we weren't exactly hurting for metroidvanias, but we weren't in the completely resplendent period we are now either. Here's the thing about Guacamelee 2 -- it's one of those lateral sequels, the ki...

Hollow Knight developer Team Cherry has been busy. After a successful 2015 Kickstarter they launched Hollow Knight back in February of 2017 but have been hard at work with DLC ever since. And here's the catch: it's free DLC. After rele...

The speedrunning community took a liking to Ori and the Blind Forest, and based on how well Ori and the Will of the Wisps is shaping up, I think they're going to have a lot to dissect in this sequel. At gamescom, Moon Studios debuted a new ...

When Swery65's The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories was announced earlier this year, it left us kind of confused. When the first screenshots of the game debuted not too long ago, that confusion wasn't exactly cleared u...

Nearly a year after A Hat in Time originally launched, it's missing from just one major platform. It's available on PC, PS4, and Xbox One, but it's not yet available on the one console where a lot of people most want to play an indie m...

A Hat in Time is releasing on Nintendo Switch, but that's only half of developer Gears for Breakfast's gamescom announcement. The PC version is getting a neat duo of freebies in just a few weeks. On September 13, A Hat in Time wi...

Re-releases of retro games can be super finicky, especially depending on the platform and who is handling them. Technology that existed back then (think CRT monitors, legacy graphics processors like the Super FX chip) might not run as smoot...

Stardew Valley publisher Chucklefish sure can pick 'em. The company's latest selection is Inmost, a story-driven puzzle-platformer from Hidden Layer Games that looks astounding in motion. I'm getting a nice Another World vibe from the way ...

Despite what the name says, cells are actually the lifeblood of Dead Cells. They're the only way to permanently upgrade your character -- little by little, and level by level. Escaping each stage comes with a few different waves of relief: ...