Konami's 1981 classic Frogger is getting set to return to the small screen in the form of a brand new TV game show, which will adapt the hazardous single-screen adventure into a competition-style obstacle, not dissimilar to Ninja Warrior or...

Nippon Ichi Software (NIS) has finally unveiled the strange title that it has been teasing for the past week, pulling back the curtain on Tantei Bokumetsu, (or Detective Elimination), which will launch in Japan on PS4 and Nintendo Switch Ma...

It was just yesterday that we reported MGM Studios had acquired the movie rights to an as-yet-unwritten book concerning the strange case of GameStop, WallStreetBets, and the U.S. financial market. Well, I hope you're up for a double - or ev...

[Update: NIS has added a second, equally bizarre video featuring a pair of plush-headed weirdos and what appears to be a stack of dead bodies. The plot thickens, though the iconography is business as usual for NIS and its catalogue of dark ...

Well, I guess I called it, though - to be fair - it was an inevitability. MGM has already landed the movie rights to an as-yet-unwritten book charting the chaotic events of the GameStop stock / Wall Street carnage, which is still unfolding ...

Twitter is, by all accounts, an absolute trash heap of a website. Just a sopping pile of seagull excrement where every day you're bombarded by the worst possible opinions and takes on the planet. I mean, you're not even allowed to coor...

While I doubt many of us would leap at the opportunity to step into the ring with Sub-Zero, Shao Kahn or, God forbid, Erron Black in real life, a new, fan-created mod for Mortal Kombat 11 offers the opportunity to get closer to the action t...

A retro-game lovin' modder has uncovered a secret buried deep within the infrastructure of the SNES port of Capcom's excellent fighting title Street Fighter Alpha 2. The 25-year-old code allows players to gain control of one of the most not...

Tate Multimedia has recently a short gameplay clip from its upcoming reboot of forgotten 00's gaming star Kao the Kangaroo. The team began development on a new title after a #BringBackKao fan campaign trended on social media earlier this ye...

As all y'all must be aware by now, tech-heads in the video game industry are on a dogged mission to get id Software's iconic shooter Doom running on as many different platforms as possible. We've already seen Doom in action on Commodore 64,...

You might remember we recently reported on an eclectic range of Persona 5-themed teas, which are launching in Japan this December. Well, it looks like your Phantom Thieves tea-party is almost all set to go, with the arrival of this new rang...

We're only at the halfway mark on Monday and, frankly, I might already be out of gas for the week. But still, there's many a way to reinvigorate a tired drive and a lousy brain - a pleasant walk, a quick round of Huntdown, clawing at your s...

In delightfully weird news from Japan, Nintendo - along with Creatures Inc. and Game Freak - have applied for several new trademarks relating to the design and realisation of Pi!car!, which appears to be an environmentally sound, Pikachu-th...

Tate Multimedia has released the first images of its upcoming remake of '00s platformer Kao the Kangaroo. Alongside a series of environmental screens, we also get our first look at the hoppity hero himself, sporting a somewhat less cartoony...

I don't know why I keep doing this to myself. I don't know why I keep doing this to you. I wish I could see something as massively stupid as Pee War and ignore it like everyone else on the internet. ...but I just can't. I can't sit here and...

Every so often, something hits my Dtoid inbox that's so gloriously stupid that I have to write about it. Fight Crab is this week's gloriously stupid find. I'm not going to ruin it too much with unnecessary words: This is a game where the go...

Electronic Arts has released a trailer for The Sims Spark'd, a brand-new reality show that is coming to U.S. television network TBS and the BuzzFeed Multiplayer YouTube channel.According to the 90-second preview, The Sims Spark'd will featu...

KFC is no stranger to dumb gaming stunts. Hell, I'm no stranger to reporting about their dumb gaming stunts. I consider this my personal editorial beat. Fresh off the heels of a render-heavy Xbox Series X event and a despicably Silent Hills...

Nippon Ichi Software (NIS) has opened a teaser website for an as-yet-unannounced new title. The cartoonish-yet-creepy webpage features a gauntlet-wearing rat pinned to a board in what appears to be a laboratory or study of sorts. Horrible, ...

Britain appears to be loosening its lockdown measures, based on the fact that - checks notes - over a thousand new cases of COVID-19 are still being reported every day. This means that football's Premier League will finally be returning to ...

In news pretty much nobody saw coming, earlier '00s platforming hero Kao the Kangaroo is getting set to make a world-rocking comeback. As revealed by developer Tate Multimedia, the haymaker-throwing antipodean is gearing up for a big return...

The type of gaming news that keeps my heart pumpin', Strictly Limited and ININ Games have announced that they have acquired Clockwork Aquario - a '90s arcade game that never actually saw launch - with intentions of releasing the lost title ...

A team of dedicated video game historians has uncovered and reconstructed an unreleased NES game based on 1990 indycar movie Days of Thunder, some 30 years after it was abandoned by publisher MindscapeDays of Thunder was discovered by The V...

Flight School Studios has announced that Chex Quest HD - a remake of the 1996 "non-violent-first-person-shooter" Chex Quest - will launch on PC via Steam this summer. In keeping with its novelty theme, Chex Quest HD will be a free-to-play t...

Italian director Ruggero Deodato, in collaboration with Fantastico Studio, has announced a video game sequel to his notorious 1980 film, Cannibal Holocaust. In development for release on PC and consoles later this year, it's expected that C...