3D Realms has announced that indie sidescroller Rad Rodgers will be coming to Switch on February 26. The port to Nintendo's platform will include local co-op support, new characters, and a versus mode. Along with some original characters (l...

Grab your sword, shield, and spellbook for our Rampage Knights Switch contest! Who's up for a free indie game? I would be, but, you know, I work here. I can't enter these contests. But rest assured, I would if I could. You don't work here, ...

Expand your vocabulary with our contest for Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight! I have a college degree, if you can believe it. It's an English degree, which is why I write for a website in my spare time instead of working for a bank or ...

Ska Studios used to be a one-platform developer. Throughout the last generation of consoles, Ska's allegiance was to Microsoft and Xbox. The Dishwasher games, Charlie Murder, I Made a Game with Zombies in It -- all of them could ...

Throw up your horns and enter our contest to win a Switch copy of Slain: Back from Hell. We're bringing in a new year, which means I want to bring in a new me. I've decided that I'm not going to give any more games away ever again. And just...

Contests can be scary: Enter this one for your chance to win a Switch copy of Uncanny Valley. I don't know how many scary games I've given away at this point, but I do know that whatever that tally is, it's definitely more than I've played....

Pull that metal slug out of your abdomen and enter today's contest for a Switch copy of Omega Strike. As much as I love mascot platformers, quirky Japanese shit, and extreme sports games, I'd have to say that sidescrollers are my favorite t...

This contest will help you feel heroic: Win a Switch or PS4 copy of I Am the Hero. If there's one thing I definitely am not, it's a hero. Whenever games present the choice I of a "good" and "bad" playthrough I always choose the good side --...

A giveaway a day keeps the bankruptcy away. Just take one of these Swords and Soldiers 2 keys, alright? You may recall last week when we tried giving away 50 multiplayer beta keys for Swords and Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon. Well, the tea...

Last year, the two best games on mobile didn’t come from King, or Nicalis, or Tencent. They came from Onion Games, a Japanese indie studio founded by Rule of Rose and Little King’s Story developer Yoshiro Kimura. Dandy Dungeon a...

This contest makes me kinda hungry: Enter for your chance to win a Steam key for Swords and Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon's multiplayer beta. Swords and Soldiers 2 debuted exclusively on the Wii U back in 2015. Though met with critical acclaim,...

Another contest? We're obsessed. Enter for your chance to win this physical bundle for Coffee Crisis for Sega Genesis! I've said it before and I'll say it again -- physical games are way, WAY better than digital ones. It's just true. If you...

We've got another contest for you guys! Today we've got The Gardens Between on the docket. I don't often cry as a result of media experiences -- especially not from video games. It's not that they're poorly written, it's just that most game...

Admit it: Earth kinda sucks. Even before all the damage caused by the parasite known as man, the place was still pretty colorless. A green forest? Yawn. A brown desert? Blech. Hell, even the most abundant resource on our planet is mostly ju...

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...

Have you had enough giveaways lately? Of course you haven't! What a crazy thing to even suggest. Let's keep the Summer of Giveaways rolling with some love for your Switch and give away 15 copies of Son of a Witch, available now on the Ninte...

For some reason the games industry doesn't seem to like sharing sales numbers with the public, so it's always interesting to hear about how a current game is doing straight from the source. This weekend at PAX I spoke briefly with one of th...

I really miss the days of the side-scrolling run-and-gun shooter. It's such a fun and cathartic genre, and I'm shocked that not every game allows you to run around like a lunatic blasting fools left and right. Let's give out a nice, chaotic...

It's no secret that indie developers are flocking to the Nintendo Switch. It's the hottest platform for games that fall outside of the triple-A space, as Switch success stories seemingly pop up every week. Here's another to add to the pile....

Two legendary SNES shmups, R-Type III and Super R-Type, are getting a limited edition reproduction cart courtesy of Retro-Bit Publishing. Putting both games on a single cart, the $59.99 package comes with an embossed box, a full-color instr...

Ska Studios' 2D love letter to the Dark Souls games is getting another port more than two years after it was first released. This time, it's coming to the most en vogue system around. Salt and Sanctuary is launching on Nintendo S...

Do you like coffee? Do you like sidescrolling beat-em-ups? Do you have a Sega Genesis (or a Steam account)? Then your mission, should you choose to accept it, is enter this contest to win a copy of Coffee Crisis.

I really miss the 16- and 32-bit eras of gaming. Game mechanics were simple, as were the plots. The beat-'em-up genre was alive and strong, and a bored kid like me could spend hours walking from left to right hitting two buttons to wail on ...

The original 2D side-scrolling MapleStory made a big splash on the MMORPG scene back in 2003 in South Korea and would do the same with its North American release in 2005. That trend seems to continue with another long release cycle for Mapl...

In the comments section of my rather scathing review of Rad Rodgers, one of the devs behind the game, a man named Fred, was wondering what happened. In a rather refreshing show of humility, he wasn't upset that I disliked the game, but ques...