Out today on Switch. Today marks the release of Beyond the Ice Palace 2, and no, you’re not imagining things — this is a sequel the 1988 Amiga, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum platformer. Taking the shape of a Soulslike Metroidvania, Beyond the Ice Palace 2 sees you take up the chains of the Cursed…
The Strong National Museum of Play has announced their annual candidates for induction into the World Video Game Hall of Fame. This year the complete list of nominees includes Age of Empires, Angry Birds, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007), Defender, Frogger, Goldeneye 007, Golden Tee, Harvest Moon, Mattel Football, NBA 2K, Quake, and…
Amazon’s Fallout TV show turned out great, and the first season was such a hit that a second was commissioned almost immediately. As is the way with every multi-season series these days, we also got a big tease at the first season’s conclusion: we’re going to New Vegas baby! It didn’t take long for the…
It’s good news and bad news for Blizzard fans. The bad news is that BlizzCon is skipping 2025, making it the second year running the convention hasn’t transpired, and the fifth time since 2020 that BlizzCon had not held a live event. The good news is that BlizzCon is definitely happening in 2026, with Blizzard…
50 games under 20 bucks. We’ve swept and bolstered this list of great Switch games on the cheaper end of the spectrum. We’ve also added the lowest-ever sale price to each entry, in case you’d rather wishlist ’em and wait for a bargain. Nintendo Switch’s huge library can be overwhelming, with quite literally hundreds of…
WoW’s new patch, Undermine(d), opened the gates to its new raid recently. Which means, as is tradition, a race to Mythic world first has begun. While guilds have been wearing their keyboards and MMO mouses to the bone to have the honour of being the first to punch Gallywix and his dumb tophat into the…
Debating baseball is almost as much fun as playing baseball, but there’s one point that’s beyond all discussion: Shohei Otani is the best player in the world right now, and it’s not even close. Which makes it appropriate that Otani will become the first Major League Baseball player to be added to Fortnite’s Icon Series….
It seems like the number of live service games that fall flat is eclipsing the number of games that retain a large enough player base to stay online for more than a year. MultiVersus, Babylon’s Fall, Spellbreak, Rumbleverse, Concord, and others have all launched and shut down within the last two years. It’s hard to…
aughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann has revealed some more details about the studio’s next game Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet (which, incidentally, is a dreadful name and one I’m surprised the creators of The Last of Us are satisfied with) and if you were hoping its sci-fi setting might mean a lighter, more frivolous adventure than the…
The genre that has spiraled out from the surprise success of Vampire Survivors is one of my favourites to cover—whether I’m mining for gold, hitting people with swordfish, or building weapons out of brains and chimpanzee spines. The genre keeps growing and mutating, becoming ever more diverse and bursting with creative new ideas. It’s been…