Every once in a while, a game trailer will come across my path that grabs me by the neck and doesn't let go. Untitled Goose Game did that, Gnosia did that, and last night, the trailer for Rain on Your Parade did it as well. F...

Unlike with most of the past Nintendo presentations, this week's Indie World showcase really didn't have a lot for me. I'm moderately interested in Among Us and I guess I should probably get around to playing Spelunky, but really, only...

Next year, the beloved Bokujō Monogatari/Story of Seasons franchise is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and it's doing so in a big way. Not only are we finally getting Rune Factory 5 sometime in 2021, but Switch owners will also...

One of the great things about being Square Enix is it has such a rich and diverse history of RPGs from the NES, SNES, and PlayStation eras it can pull from when it wants to remaster a classic. Case in point, SaGa Frontier. Originally relea...

When Ice Cube rapped about having a good day, he must have been looking into the future to today, November 23, 2020. Because this was the day Square Enix, after years of teasing fans, finally confirmed the DS classic The World Ends with You...

I've really dropped the ball covering games for Apple Arcade this year, even though its selection of titles has only improved in recent weeks and months. It's really living up to its expectations, bringing subscribers fun, ad-and-microtrans...

Dragon Quest of the Stars hit North America at just the wrong time earlier in 2020. Arriving almost five years after its initial release in Japan, the free-to-play, gacha RPG reached our shores right around the same time COVID-19 did. ...

There are two things I know to be true about the Atelier franchise. First, the series is getting more popular outside of Japan, with Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout selling more copies than any previous entry. Second, G...

Ever since I first spent a month with Train Sim World, I've had a hankering for more games featuring trains. They're just so serene, and in 2020, serenity is something we all could use a bit more of. The Train Sim games are great, but ...

The roster of the highly anticipated Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is on the grow. During the Koei Tecmo livestream on the title at Tokyo Game Show, fans were given their first look at young Impa in action and the developers dropped...

For years, people have been unable to play Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game after it was tragically removed from digital storefronts. Those who were able to play it described it as one of the best brawlers ever created. This holi...

What started an entry in the budget-minded Simple Series of games in Japan has blossomed into one of developer Tamsoft's most well-known franchises. Onechanbara, the zombie-killing hack 'n slash series that stars beautiful bikini-clad ...

Last month, we brought you news that Gunman Clive creator Bertil Hörberg was working on a new solo project through the COVID-19 pandemic. While it wasn't officially announced, gameplay snippets posted to Twitter over the past few ...

Harley Quinn, King Shark, Captain Boomerang, and Deadshot are teaming up to take down Superman in Rocksteady's Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. During the DC FanDome stream, it was confirmed the game is a continuation of the Arkham&...

DC FanDome is in full swing and, after kicking the event off with a new look at Wonder Woman: 1984, the show gave us our first look at Gotham Knights. Set to release in 2021, the co-op action-adventure game kicks off with the death of Batm...

One of the best Japanese developers of first-person dungeon crawlers is Experience Inc. For the past few years, it's been blessing players with that classic style of RPG with titles like Ray Gigant, Demon Gaze, and Operation Abyss. To me, i...

Twitter is, for the most part, an absolute cesspool of a website, a wretched hive of villainy and scum that only sometimes makes its continued existence worthwhile. For the past few months, the only worthwhile thing on Twitter has been gett...

Last year, fans of quirky RPGs and quirkier Japanese developers were given a great surprise when it was announced Moon: Remix RPG Adventure would be ported to the Switch. The game, described as an anti-RPG where you realize the hero of...

Last week's announcement of Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends and the Secret Fairy was good news for fans of cute RPGs with crap-loads of crafting. Following its debut in the Japanese Nintendo Mini Direct, Koei Tecmo promised fans outside o...

Really, when the first game of a showcase is an excellent looking Halo sequel, it's hard to follow that with a shooter of your own. And I'm sure CrossfireX will be a perfectly fine shooter when it launches later this year, b...

I may not know much about the Warhammer franchise, but this is certainly not what I picture when people mention the property. Either way, I think I'm down for a four-player co-op shooter on next-gen systems. Warhammer 40,000: Darktide...

Microsoft is making a push in the next generation for indie games that bring unique voices and ideas into the industry. During the Xbox Games Showcase, we got a look at one of those games from developer Interior/Night. It's called As Dusk ...

Dontnod Entertainment has established it as one of the best studios for storytelling in all of video games. Last year, it revealed its next tale would be a story of siblings called Tell Me Why. During today's Xbox Games Showcase, we got a n...

In the push to find out more about Halo: Infinite, I completely forgot The Falconeer is a thing that I'm also excited about. From developer Tomas Sala, The Falconeer is an open-world aerial combat game that'll feature dogfigh...

It may not be the full Nintendo Direct fake Twitter accounts have been teasing for the past several weeks, but I guess it's something. Nintendo announced late Sunday night that it will broadcast a Direct Mini showcasing games coming from it...