Nintendo is in a bug-fixing mood with Animal Crossing: New Horizons this week. After addressing several huge game-breaking glitches with version 1.1.2, 1.1.3 kind of came outta nowhere to immediately address something that had been dom...

Today, Stardew Valley publisher Chucklefish lifted the lid on an art style overhaul for Witchbrook, its internally-developed magical school simulation game. Before, the studio's art direction looked super similar to Stardew (which many fans...

Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been out for over a week now, and like most modern simulation games, it has a ton of bugs and a few exploits. Naturally Nintendo is inclined to squash out the latter first, but a new update just arrived in ...

Welp, the Animal Crossing custom design system is pretty limitless, but this probably isn't what Nintendo intended! As a reminder, Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been out for a short while, which means thousands of fans have co...

By now, we know exactly what to expect from Planet Zoo DLC – several new animals to care for and a whole lot of building, scenery, and foliage pieces with which to craft an extravagant themed zoo. Planet Zoo's next DLC, the South Amer...

With coronavirus concerns mounting, some developers just aren't sure what's going to happen. While a lot of studios have shifted to remote work, some are more old school in their approach, and an outbreak in their building would put any wor...

The wholesome-sim hits keep on coming. It feels like we only just got Rune Factory 4 Special, and Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a few tantalizing days away, but there's also the upcoming Nintendo Switch remake of the Game Boy Advance tit...

Kunos Simulazioni is hoping to reach more hardcore racing fans this year. On the heels of last year's PC release, Assetto Corsa Competizione is coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on June 23, 2020. Something to consider if you're a big GT3...

In today's contest, we're giving away Steam keys for chill gardening game Alchemy Garden! Remember Alchemy Garden? We featured it a few months ago right here on this very site, giving you, our loyal readers, a chance to win a free copy. The...

The two free PC games on the Epic Games Store for March 5–12 are GoNNER, a stylish platforming shooter, and Offworld Trading Company, an economic strategy game about beating rival CEOs on Mars. GoNNER is one of those roguelikes I alw...

We've got Switch copies of brutal walking simulator BE-A Walker up for grabs in today's contest! You know that one movie where the giant robots walk around and blast lasers and stuff at people trying to defend their planet? I don't remember...

I enjoyed my time with Maneater far more than I had any right to. For what is essentially a shark simulator (or a "shaRkPG," as Tripwire calls it), there was a surprising amount of balance between the calm and the ridiculous. At some points...

Animal Crossing: New Horizon's whole shtick is having players board a plane and discover a new island to make their home, which allows for all sorts of thematic artwork and fan creations. This one from redditor T0Rtur3 (with designs by...

I've been reporting on the public nuisance that is cats for quite some time now, so it should come as no surprise that I'm back to alert the world to another cat-astrophic video game. This time, however, things take a slightly sadder turn a...

If you've seen Parasite (which is very easy to do now since it's been re-introduced to a ton of theaters and is out on home video), you probably won't get its mansion out of your mind anytime soon. In case you want to ponder its themes even...

All eyes were on today's Nintendo Direct to clear up a rather curious issue with save data backup for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and the company didn't really deliver. In the beginning of the Direct, Nintendo teased and frontloaded...

Today during the lengthy Animal Crossing: New Horizons Nintendo Direct, some of the game's major features were laid out ahead of the March launch. Although the bulk of the Direct mostly dealt with cute animal interaction...

Before We Leave is a winning concept for a peaceful city-building game. It's a relaxing take on games like Anno and A Kingdom for Keflings in which you'll harvest resources from a lost civilization, explore and expand to neighboring islands...

Remember Empire of Sin? That gangster-centric simulator that was revealed at E3 2019 during a Nintendo Direct, helmed by Romero Games? Maybe? Well it's been delayed. According to the official Twitter account, citing "quality over speed" (al...

As a white person, I've watched more than 10,000 hours of HGTV. Whether I'm screaming at some spoiled college student on House Hunters International or rolling my eyes every time a designer recommends subway tile, the channel is my go-...

One of these days, I'm going to sink an unholy amount of time into Satisfactory, a game about building elaborate factories on an alien planet. Today's news – the release of Update 3, complete with a long-requested pipe-laying system, ...

Development on System Shock 3 is on red alert following reports that no one is working on the game anymore. After high-profile people left developer OtherSide Entertainment -- including the writer/director, senior designer, lead progra...

A cold war has been raging between Animal Crossing fans and Nintendo this past week. Now that the dust has settled (for now), it's time to make sense of it all. Last week on the official New Horizons site, Nint...

In today's contest, we're giving away a brand new Switch console or an XFX graphics card, as well as copies of the game, courtesy of Speaking Simulator! Yes. Oh, yes. I've been waiting for this one for a while now, since when I first report...

Farming Simulator 19 is free on the Epic Games Store until February 6, 2020, at 8:00am Pacific. While I still have your attention – don't go! – I also need to point out that next week's freebie is a tabletop trio. Starting Febru...