Sometimes a game will make its way into the public spotlight not because it’s good, inventive, or bad—but simply because it is. It captures a specific moment and gets a bunch of attention at a specific point of time. A small moon that casts a big shadow, like a solar eclipse. Palworld is one of…
Me-OW. You’ve probably never heard of Ai to Yūjou no Neko Monogatari: Jingle Cats – Love Para Daisakusen no Maki – we certainly hadn’t until this week. Released on Sony’s console, Mac and Windows PC in 1998, this Japanese exclusive is based on novelty albums of the same name produced by Mike Spalla – Jingle…
Space fans prepare yourselves, for I have some sad news: NASA’s Mars-based helicopter, Ingenuity, has flown its last, thanks to a broken rotor blade. It is now an ex-helicopter, or if you prefer, the little space helicopter that no longer could. Pour one out for a true original, and give mad respect to the first…
The Rave War to end all Rave Wars. Bandai Namco’s Tekken is one of the most famous fighting game series of all time, with millions of copies sold across a wide range of systems since its inception back in 1994. Designed to be a rival to Sega’s Virtua Fighter in arcades, Tekken has arguably outshone…
Go, ninja, go! Nintendo fans may be familiar with Good-Feel, a Japanese developer that collaborated with the Big N to produce titles such as Wario Land: Shake It!, Kirby’s Epic Yarn, and Yoshi’s Woolly and Crafted Worlds. Yet despite its work with Nintendo, Good Feel is still an independent company and occasionally produces new games…
Return to the fight. Just when we thought that we had shaken the Vampire Survivors bug that seemed to sink its teeth into us last year and not let go, Poncle Games goes and drops not one, but two new reasons to dive into the uber-addictive roguelike all over again. Neither the Adventure Mode nor…
Depending on how you measure, you could argue that Apple’s iPhones are the world’s most popular gaming devices, what with well over two billion of the things sold and an ongoing installed userbase of nearly a billion. But conspicuously absent from the iPhone’s Appstore has been game streaming services. Until now. You’d think allowing game…
Every Switch game that we scored at least 9/10. Oof, nothing like a good eShop sale, right? Nintendo’s back with another belter, knocking up to 80% off a whole bunch of games to ease those January blues. Naturally, with so many titles to choose from, it can be difficult to really determine which ones are…
The Japanese multimedia series Love Live! has been around since 2010, and has enjoyed popularity through various anime series, films, and rhythm-action videogames. The setup is fairly simple, and revolves around girls who attend school with each other but are secretly the planet’s greatest pop idols. One especially successful entry is Love Live! School Island…
In the cavernous recesses of my heart I nurture the belief that Dwarf Fortress is the greatest game ever made. And ever since it got its shiny Kitfox-branded new version in 2022—now with graphics!—I’ve been convinced that’s the best way to play it. But that version isn’t quite feature complete. It’s still missing original Dwarf…