The classic Space Invaders returns. Last year in January, Hamster’s Arcade Archives series for the Switch and multiple other platforms reached 400 releases. Now, in an update at the end of 2025, it’s been officially confirmed that the retro-specialist has now hit 500 releases! Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Mario Kart World and Pokémon top the list. It’s once again that time of year where companies sum up all sorts of things about the year that was, and with this in mind, Nintendo’s Japanese branch has revealed the best-selling games on the Switch and Switch 2 eShop in 2025. Read the full article on…
It can’t wait to make “another announcement”. Persona 3 Reload only arrived on the Switch 2 in October, but there’s plenty more to come… Speaking to the Japanese website 4Gamer.net as part of its annual end-of-year developer interview feature recently, Atlus producer and director Kazuhisa Wada (who has worked on Persona 5 Royal and Persona…
“I hope creators and audiences alike can recognize AI as a tool”. Back in June, Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino acknowledged that, like a great many companies working in the games industry, his firm was exploring the use of Generative AI as “a tool for communication and efficiency improvement.” Fast forward to the end of the…
The N64 got an upgrade this year. After what felt like an eternity, Analogue finally launched its FPGA-powered Analogue 3D system this year, and it didn’t disappoint. Sure, it wasn’t quite as accurate as Analogue’s marketing department might have you believe, but it’s still arguably the best way to experience Nintendo’s 64-bit console in the…
Slay the Spire certainly turned heads when it released, immediately cementing itself as one of the best deckbuilders in town and helping to kick off a trend that persists today. That was nearly seven years ago at this point, but the game is turning even more heads today: it just hit an all-time concurrent player…
Slay the Spire certainly turned heads when it released, immediately cementing itself as one of the best deckbuilders in town and helping to kick off a trend that persists today. That was nearly seven years ago at this point, but the game is turning even more heads today: it just hit an all-time concurrent player…
Arm versus x86 is a battle for the ages. And 2025 was meant to be the year that Arm chips finally made inroads into the PC and indeed PC gaming. That should have been thanks to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X CPU, which looked very promising at launch and ought to have been getting into its stride…
If you feel like Pokémon lacks any real contenders in the videogame arena, it’s possible you haven’t been paying attention. Monster Hunter Stories is where it’s at if you ask me, but heavy hitters like Shin Megami Tensei and Digimon Story are constantly furnishing creature collector fans with new bangers. If you want to usher…
The FPS is once again in transition. It’s a change that’s been percolating for a while, but 2025 was the year a number of developing trends in PC gaming’s favorite genre finally boiled over. The time of extreme skill ceilings and the pursuit of metallic ranks defining every new multiplayer FPS is behind us. The…