How would you rate it? The August 2025 Nintendo Direct was an Indie World Showcase featuring 15 minutes of games from independent devs coming to Switch 2 and Switch 1 this year and into 2026. Featuring release dates for previously announced games plus some brand new reveals, it was a decent little showing after the…
Couching the expensive little Framework Desktop as “a DIY gaming rig without the pain” isn’t necessarily doing this mighty-but-tiny justice. It’s not a gaming PC, that chip isn’t a gaming chip; AMD folk have said that to us explicitly. Especially not when you can build a small form factor gaming rig for at least $1,000…
One of the key selling points of Battlefield has always been immersion, a vague buzzword that you just kind of know means it feels atmospheric, another oddly ephemeral phrase when it comes to games. Having a tank round the corner and start blasting the front off the building I’m hiding in is intense. Battlefield 6…
Hey everyone, this is Mike Tucker, Design Director and Programmer at Bitmap Bureau. We hope you’re all excited for Terminator 2D: No Fate, coming October 31, 2025. On behalf of everyone at the Bitmap team, we’re thrilled to reveal the new Gameplay Overview Trailer! The trailer gives an in-depth summary of T2D’s various gameplay systems,…
Picture Purrfect. Last year’s delightful cat sim, Little Kitty, Big City, made a surprise appearance in today’s Indie World showcase to reveal the upcoming ‘Picture Purrfect’ update, set to land on Switch on 27th August. The headline addition in this one is a photo mode, hence the name, but the newbie that we’re most excited…
Category: Games August 7, 2025 Free Play Days – The Elder Scrolls Online, PAW Patrol World, Cassette Beasts and Souldiers Kyle Ocean, Marketing Manager, Xbox August is here, and there’s plenty to explore with Free Play Days! Souldiers is available this weekend for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, Standard and Core members to play from Thursday…
I’m going to date myself here, but I do have a nostalgic fondness for ye olde game guides of yore, ASCII art and all. Though I’ll never forget those community-based efforts, I am glad guide writing has become a more dedicated job role—especially as I continue to have my arse handed to me in Elden…
Well, well, well. Publisher Top Hat Studios popped up at today’s Indie World showcase to reveal Well Dweller, the latest title from Crypt Custodian and Islets dev Kyle Thompson, which will be arriving on Switch at some point in 2026. As you might assume from the dev’s background, this is yet another gorgeous-looking metroidvania, where…
Different franchises colliding in videogames has been a thing since some guy at Banpresto realised they could make Godzilla and a Gundam kick a football around an 8-bit pitch in 1992’s Battle Soccer. Sticking a familiar face in a sea of original characters is a solid marketing strategy, and something that I’ve been especially privy…
Harvey Randall, Staff Writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Writing too many words about my personal hatred of dialogue wheels (it is Gripes Week, after all), writing news by the bushel, and getting back into World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy 14 at the same time. Send help. Last week I was: Informing…