Sometimes, the right idea at the right time is enough to point you towards another win—and we’ve got a whole bunch of them ready when you need them. Our small but perfectly formed clue for the August 14 (1517) Wordle can be used whenever you need some reassurance you’re on the right track (or a…
Fancy some wave racing? Hamster Corporation today adds Namco’s 1996 wave racer Aqua Jet to its Arcade Archives and Arcade Archives 2 series on the Switch and Switch 2. As explained by Hamster, this game stood out in arcades at the time because of its “large jet ski-style cabinet” and was powered by Namco’s System…
If your favorite flavor of videogames is “ones that rely on parallel projection to give a sense of 3D geometry” then you’re in luck, because Steam and GOG are both currently discounting isometric games. If CRPGs, tactics games, and board game adaptations are your thing then get ready to fill your boots. Because this sale…
From the team behind Cruis’n Blast. Arcade racing fans have another game to look forward to this year, with GameMill announcing it will be bringing Fast & Furious: Arcade Edition to the Switch and multiple other platforms on 24th October, 2025. If you’re getting Cruis’n Blast vibes from this one, that’s because developer Raw Thrills…
Playdate received an oddity called Blippo Plus earlier this year. It turns the handheld console into a strange little television, so that twisting the crank feels akin to switching channels on an old analog TV dial. Sometimes you’ll find a cryptic animation, or else a live action musical performance. Some channels show a mysteriously static…
A megacorporation’s research ship returns from a 65-year mission into deep space loaded with gooey alien specimens. But—and stop me if you’ve heard this one before—something goes wrong. The ship crashes on Earth, and just to complicate things, it crashes into a city run by a rival corporation. Now it’s a mad dash to search…
Capcom’s efforts to make Monster Hunter Wilds better have, for some players, instead succeeded in making it worse. The studio says it’s aware of a bug introduced in the new 1.021 update that’s causing crashes, and it’s now working on a fix. Reports of crashes began to surface on Reddit shortly after the 1.021 update…
While Nintendo might’ve found a way to bring Pocketpair to court over patents it arguably shouldn’t have been awarded in the first place, it’s telling that even its military-grade legal hit squad didn’t try to nail Palworld for its Pokemon knockoffery. But while I’ll defend Palworld’s legal right to pretend Dinossom isn’t just Lilligant‘s flower…
Now that we know the full makeup of maps and modes coming in the second weekend of the Battlefield 6 beta that kicks off tomorrow, it’s increasingly clear that Battlefield Studios isn’t taking its “closed weapons” playlists very seriously. Similar to the first weekend, closed weapons gets the short end of the stick as BF…
Every now and then I run across a game that looks like it will be my thing—not that it necessarily will be my thing, but the vibe is undeniable. The Secret of Weepstone, revealed today, is one such game: “A hand-drawn black and white dungeon crawler RPG inspired by classic D&D of the ’80s” that’s…