It started with a tweet, and then another tweet, and now here I am, telling you to watch an off-the-rails trailer for a trashy Steam Early Access game called Together BnB that has "mostly negative" reviews. The game's plot — surprisi...

Winter's over and the dawn is here. There's a new Dota 2 patch today, which means a lot of balance changes to the map, item shops, individual heroes, and more, but also a new hero: Valora, the Dawnbreaker. Dawnbreaker is the herald of the l...

Dotemu, Lizard Cube, and Guard Crush Games have just delivered news the entire world (well, me at least) has been waiting for: Streets of Rage 4 is getting new DLC later this year, which will bring with it a new mode, new music, new weapons...

2020 was a kick-ass year for video games, I'm sure y'all would agree. But when it comes to the crunch, I don't there's any new release I played more than Easy Trigger Games' anarchic, explosive, kick-you-in-the-crotch-fantastic platform sho...

The reception for Save me Mr. Tako upon its release in 2018 didn't really play out the way developer Christophe Galati thought it would. A passion project for fans of the Game Boy and Super Game Boy, its initial response wasn't encoura...

As the popular battle royale genre continues to search for new locations, realms, and even eras with which to wreak its multiplayer mayhem, fledgling studio Team GRIT has announced its intention to take the Last Person Standing concept back...

Putting a game out early to the public can be tricky, but Early Access is not new to Larian Studios anymore. The RPG studio utilized a staggered launch with Divinity: Original Sin and its sequel to their success, and now with Baldur's Gate ...

No Man's Sky just keeps growing, with no sign of stopping. Developer Hello Games announced a new update today called the Expeditions update, which brings a set of challenges in a seasonal format to the space exploration sim. Update 3.3 brin...

One more update is coming to indie RPG CrossCode today, as a final send-off for the game. Developer Radical Fish Games announced today that one more small update, included as part of the A New Home DLC, will be the final piece of conte...

The first iteration of Loop Hero didn't come together on time. The latest game from the Four Quarters team started out as a game jam entry in Ludum Dare; the only problem was, by jam's end, it didn't really work. On the page for what was ca...

No combat, tricky trade routes, overwhelming user-interface, or need to skim a wiki rundown – the peaceful city-builder Dorfromantik is just a chill game "to unwind with during turbulent times." There's so much beauty in its simplici...

I'm in "cautiously keeping tabs" territory with Thymesia, an action-RPG from OverBorder Studio and publisher Team17 that lets you "seize the disease from gruesome bosses and wield them as weapons." The combat is speedier and more offense-...

Publisher Sega, in association with developers Creative Assembly and Feral Interactive, has announced that a remastered edition of its game-changing strategy title Rome: Total War will launch on PC via Steam April 29, priced at around $30. ...

Have you got a live stream coming up? You, personally? If not, then who even are you? It's all about the live streams. You need two a month - no, a week - no, A DAY. Live streams is where it's at now in this brave new world. Live Stream Wor...

Great news for Streets of Rage 4 fans, as a new listing for previously unannounced DLC has popped up on the Steam store database (Steamdb). As spotted by Redditor MikeSaintJules, the mystery entry is titled "Mr. X Nightmare" - a reference t...

In today's contest you can win a Steam Early Access copy of Cartel Tycoon! Management sims stress me out. My day job is essentially a management sim -- I sure as hell don't want to continue to manage things in my free time, as well! Drugs a...

Team 17 has announced that it will be publishing new tactical shooter Ready or Not when it comes smashing onto Steam Early Access in the near future. Developed by Void Interactive, the team-based shooter will task players with breaching num...

While most rabbits prefer the simple life — hanging around in fields, lolloping in runs and hutches, playing basketball with Bill Murray — such mediocre pastimes do not trouble the head of tomb waidin' wabbit, Kaze. Kaze chases ...

In today's contest you can win this limited Maximilian statue from Evil Genius 2! Man, we're really killing it this week with physical prizes! Artbooks, consoles, phones -- what could we do next? How's about this limited Max statue from Evi...

Delisted horror title Devotion is back on the market, some two years following its initial release, after Taiwanese developer Red Candle Games opened its own store in order to sell the creepy adventure game directly to anybody who wishes to...

In today's contest you can win an Another Eden official artbook and desk pad prize pack! Happy birthday, Dtoid! I know it's our birthday, but that doesn't mean we can't give you a nice little present, right? On deck today is a fun little pr...

Content Warning: This game, and thus the review, contains depictions and descriptions of depression, anxiety, and suicide. Having been Kickstarted in 2014, Omori seems to have gone under many people's radar, myself included. While at a...

Celebrating a whole decade of Metro – oh my gosh, it's really been that long? – developer 4A Games has decided to give out free PC copies of Metro 2033 on Steam this week. It's free to keep for good. All you need to do is claim ...

Yesterday saw publisher Dotemu come leaping out of the sewers (erm... no offense) with the announcement of a brand new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade brawler. TMNT: Shredder's Revenge is in development for PC and consoles at Tribute Ga...

As a huge Castlevania: Symphony of the Night fan, I feel honor bound to check out Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth. It has looked fantastic in Early Access, but you know me, I like to wait. Now's the time to strike as Team ...