I often play horror games, and while I enjoy them, they tend to leave me feeling tense and in need of something much lighter to take away the stress. After the crazy WTF-filled ride that was Observer, I was itching for something I could jus...

Fancy Pants, Fancy Pants... oh my gosh, Fancy Pants! I had forgotten about these Flash platformers up until now, but they served me well as time-wasters years ago. Brad Borne is back this month with the long-awaited follow-up, Super Fancy P...

I've yet to spring for an 8Bitdo gamepad but this one might prove too tempting to pass up. The company has opened pre-orders for its Windows, Mac, Android, and Nintendo Switch compatible SN30 Pro Controller on Amazon, and I'm loving its for...

Sci-fi 4X game Endless Space 2 launched its "Target Locked" update today, adding much-anticipated fighters and bombers to the fray. These smaller ships will give you an edge over bigger cruisers, and they'll look good doing it since th...

We first heard about Spry Fox's Steambirds Alliance two years ago, just before PAX Prime 2015. At PAX West 2017, I got to sit down and play a bit of the massively multiplayer online shoot-'em-up, and it was a cool playground for cooperative...

I was scheduled to see Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, a game I knew nothing about (despite having written about its announcement two years ago -- my memory isn't what it used to be). When I finally put the controller down an hour later, ...

We're getting not one but (at least!) two notable games inspired by the almighty Advance Wars. I'm still desperate for Intelligent Systems to return to the series, but until then, this duo should keep me busy. Chucklefish has its fantasy tu...

The wonderful word puzzle game Alphabear has come to Steam as a premium title, shedding "all free-to-play elements" found in its mobile versions. If you liked the look of this back in 2015 but didn't want to fuss with waiting for energy to ...

Donut County has been in the works for a while. Jordan previewed it a couple of years ago, and at the time it looked relaxing and engaging, just the kind of thing I like to sink hours into. Now, it still looks relaxing and engaging but with...

This War of Mine and Frostpunk developer 11 bit studios is handling publishing duties for Children of Morta, a narrative-driven hack-and-slash roguelike about a family of guardians. Today's trailer is more of a reminder that this game a) ex...

I do love a good surprise release. Mike Bithell of Thomas Was Alone and Volume fame has announced and launched his team's latest game, Subsurface Circular, a "graphical twist on the classic text-based adventure." It's pitched as a single-si...

That lovely-looking NES30 arcade stick from 8Bitdo is up for pre-order ahead of an August 20, 2017 release. It's $80 on Amazon and supports wireless play via Bluetooth, USB, D-Input and X-Input functionality, and easy modding. The company c...

In double Minecraft Story Mode news, it has been announced that the first season of Telltale Game's blocky romp will be coming to the Nintendo Switch in its entirety later this month.This comes along with the announcement that the second ep...

Multiplayer in Stardew Valley has been a long time coming, and it'll be a while yet. Chucklefish has detailed what we can expect from the cooperative mode now that the developers have "pinned down the main technical issues" bogging down the...

Dino-hunters will have a little longer to sharpen their spears and, uh, assault rifles as epic survival game Ark has been pushed back from its original retail release date of August 8.In a statement from developers Wildcard, an apology was ...

Twin Peaks Twin Falls has itself a bit of a menacing problem. Portals to an alternative world known as the Darkside have been popping up around town. The normal police force isn’t equipped to handle this issue, leaving only Detec...

Nicky Case makes games that might just teach you something. There are topics ranging from voting to coming out to two-dimensional matrices. This most recent game hits pretty hard right now, when the world seems bad and people in it seem bad...

Black Screen Records has announced that it is teaming up with composer Michael Kelly to release the soundtrack to VA-11 HALL-A, hands down one of the best games to come out last year, on vinyl. The limited edition release, due out his summe...

Whilst the duel-to-the-death over its new art style will rage on for centuries more, Nidhogg 2 is well on the way, with the fast-paced swashbuckler now available for pre-order.Developers Messhoff have also released a new trailer depicting t...

This is one of those Humble Bundles that's going to be an absolute steal for a certain type of person but, for the rest of us, there will be too much overlap to justify a purchase. Maybe you have a friend who's never messed with Telltale ga...

With services like PlayStation Now and EA Access out in the wild, the idea of subscription gaming services doesn't seem to be going anywhere. The newest player in this growing market is Jump. Unlike its triple-A brothers, Jump's focus ...

Telltale Games has released a new trailer to hype up season two of the popular Minecraft: Story Mode series, which launches next week. The preview teases scenes from episode one of the five-part journey through Minecraft's cubic universe, ...

After the announcement this morning, I was interested by the ideas that Next Up Hero was tackling. Death really has become kind of pointless in modern gaming, so why not turn that into a game mechanic? That it was aiming at being a beat-'em...

I've always found it odd that more games don't do interesting things with death. Dying tends to just set you back a checkpoint or has you replaying entire levels, but some games introduce cool gimmicks. Super Time Force was one of...

Blizzard has opened pre-orders for StarCraft Remastered and you know what that means: it's not far off! The iconic real-time strategy game (and its Brood War expansion) will be back in our lives on August 14, 2017 looking and sounding bette...