After years of buyouts, consolidation, and layoffs referred to as “efficiency” in the game industry, we deserve a little win for the workers, as a treat. Our small ray of sunshine is this: One novelist and games writer has just bought back the rights to the zombie-themed fitness app that she’s been writing for over…
Over the last few years Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund has become a significant presence in the games industry. It’s the owner of Monopoly Go creators Savvy Games Group, has stakes in Nintendo, Embracer Group, Capcom, and Take-Two, among many others,and most recently was involved in the $55 billion joint acquisition of Electronic Arts. But…
For many years now, the children’s character Thomas the Tank Engine has been something of a modding phenomenon. You can find Thomas in everything from Hogwarts Legacy to Elden Ring, but it all began with a 2013 Skyrim mod that replaced all dragons with the resplendent blue engine, as well as adding sound effects from…
I’ve spent precious little time in my life with a line in the water, but I admire fishing in the abstract as an alignment of man and his environment through pelagic contemplation. Based on what I’m seeing from upcoming co-op angling game How to Fish, however, I’ve apparently missed some critical bits of the fishing…
On December 2, Italian game dev studio Santa Ragione will release Horses, a first-person horror adventure telling a story of “the burden of familial trauma and puritan values, the dynamics of totalitarian power, and the ethics of personal responsibility,” using what the studio calls “grotesque, subversive imagery” of a ranch where nude human beings in…
New gameplay is more than Peppy. Chuhai Labs has shared the first gameplay trailer of its stunning-looking on-rails shooter, Wild Blue Skies (formerly known as Wild Blue), featuring some anthropomorphic animals piloting flying vehicles through the skies to fight evil. Sound a little familiar? Okay, so the game still isn’t confirmed for Switch (or Switch…
A galactic read. Nintendo surprised us all back in the September Direct with the announcement of Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 — our first chance to play the latter on modern hardware in 15 years. What was perhaps even more surprising was the reveal of Rosalina’s Storybook, a hardback edition of the…
Spellcasters Chronicles is Quantic Dream’s upcoming action MOBA that sees teams of three pitted against one another alongside hordes of grunts and mythical creatures as they fight for dominion of the map. It’s pretty cool, I had a great time with it in the preview, and now you can too, soon. Quantic Dream is opening…
Bethesda is celebrating a decade of Fallout 4 this month, and, as is Toddly tradition, has released yet another version of the Sole Survivor’s wasteland journey. The Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition launched on November 10 as an all-encompassing collection of DLC and add-ons, but a related update to Fallout 4’s Creation Club menu rolled out…
I’m beginning to think Charlie Cox—the voice of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s Gustave—has a case of impostor syndrome. It seems like just yesterday he was telling everyone he felt “like a total fraud” for all the praise he gets for his performance when he thinks he was only in the acting booth for four hours…