Super Mario Run gets a lot of hate but I got a ton of play out of it: and hey, it beats the hell out of Nintendo's Gatcha-crazy gambling schemes it's running on its current mobile titles. $9.99 for a premium full game without microtransacti...

Low player bases and even lower revenues are forcing Robot Entertainment to axe two of its free-to-play games. Both Orcs Must Die Unchained and Hero Academy 2 will be shut down on April 8, 2019. In a message on its website, Robot ...

Alien: Blackout, a mobile follow-up to Alien: Isolation for iOS and Android, has been announced. Amanda Ripley, Ellen Ripley's daughter and protagonist of Alien: Isolation, is the star. It's a joint effort between FoxNext Games, D3 Go ...

That headline probably goes without saying, but it's true! The indie scene brought some genuinely great games in 2018 that will continue to stick with us for years to come. Look no further than the 2019 Independent Games Festival, which rou...

Ironically, Donut County is a game without holes. Well, not strictly speaking. Donut County is a game about an ever-growing hole. But, it's also a game without any real flaws -- its inventive and creative spirit shining brightly ...

I've played every Tony Hawk game to date. Yep, even the ones with the physical skateboard (one was okay). Beyond my love of the sport, I always approached Tony Hawk joints as puzzle games. Figuring out where all the devilishly hid...

Fortnite is giving players a way to mess around in the freedom of a sandbox. Epic has just announced Fortnite Creative, a new permanent addition that builds on the foundation of the limited-time Playground mode. In Creative, players a...

Tony Hawk might not work with Activision anymore, but that doesn't mean he's done lending his likeness to video games. Three years after the dismal THPS5, the Hawk squawks again. Next week, Tony Hawk's Skate Jam will release on iOS and...

After a basic tease last week, Niantic has detailed the soon-to-launch Trainer Battles in Pokémon GO. You can face other Pokémon trainers by scanning the unique Battle Code associated with their account. "While Trainers will u...

Epic Games had planned to let Fortnite players merge their accounts this month, but the system needs more work than originally anticipated. Citing "ongoing technical concerns," the developer has come up with a new release window for account...

You've spent the past two years proving you're perfectly capable of catching them. Soon, it will be time to prove you know how to put those Pokémon to good use. You haven't just been capturing them just to put them in little sph...

Stardew Valley is a charming game made even more delightful with the knowledge that it was created by one passionate developer. Eric Barone adored the Harvest Moon series so much that he set out to design a fitting tribute that got every el...

Dissidia Final Fantasy: Opera Omnia is a bit of an odd duck, but it's not just a weird mobile game that's relegated to one region because it makes a ton of loot box/gacha cash there; it's available worldwide. It's yet another attempt of Squ...

A common thread in sports/sports entertainment is hyping up re-used events. Ignoring repetition is a great tactic, and now Niantic is once again bringing back the "legendary dump" event from last year. This time though, instead of just enco...

Bethesda intended to bring The Elder Scrolls to mobile devices this year, but the game in question, Blades, needs more time. The developer confirmed today that the title will now launch in early 2019. The Elder Scrolls: Blades is a first-p...

Maybe the most off-kilter announcement from Microsoft at this year's E3 was Gears Pop! -- a mobile game that's Gears of War by way of Funko Pop. This series that has long been about large muscly men being as masculine as possible...

Earlier this year we met the so-called "Pokemon Uncle" that resides in Taiwan. He built up a reputation for living his best life possible, riding his bike, getting out of the house, and of course: playing no less than 11 instances of Pokemo...

Diablo on mobile is going to be a dangerous prospect for some of us. Blizzard closed out its BlizzCon conference with Diablo Immortal, an action-RPG for iOS and Android that promises "authentic Diablo gameplay at your fingertips." It's set ...

Live on stage at BlizzCon, the Hearthstone team announced Rastakhan's Rumble, the next expansion for the game that was already spoiled by leaks. It'll deal with the Trolls in the famous Stranglethorn Vale zone and will featur...

Here's an incredible statistic that seems both ridiculous and totally accurate: Fortnite's attach rate on Nintendo Switch is almost 50 percent. Nintendo announced this milestone in its most recent mid-year financials briefing for inves...

Just in time for Halloween 2018, Google has released The Great Ghoul Duel, a team-based multiplayer Google Doodle game in which players race to collect spirits and bank them back at their base. You can play it in your browser with mouse or ...

RuneScape arrived at the exact right place and time for millions of people. As a free and easily accessible game, there were few real barriers to entry. It was a good starter MMO. If you had friends who were deep into RuneScape and they wan...

[Update: You can find the iOS version here and the Android version here!] One of my favorite things to do in open world games, especially in the fabulous Fallout: New Vegas, is turn off the HUD. It's amazing to quickly learn how much y...

Hidden Folks, a pleasant hand-drawn game about poking around densely-packed landscapes to uncover hidden objects, is coming to Nintendo Switch next week. The news was tucked away in an announcement about beach-themed DLC available this week...

The strangely adorable "hex nut" Pokémon Meltan popped up in Pokémon Go about a month ago. Did you nab one? As it turns out, this is only the beginning -- the little guy has a first-of-its-kind evolution. Meltan can evolve int...