The 1980s to the early 2000s are generally considered the golden age of the movie tie-in video game. If there was an angle to a hit (or potential hit) movie that could be adapted to the arcade or home systems, developers were there to exploit it. Some turned out good, a few excellent, but the…
“It’s really moving along now”. Before the year is out, Undertale creator Toby Fox has shared a “status update” about Deltarune Chapter 5. The good news is the fifth chapter is “really moving along” now. In saying this, the official release date could still be “several months” out. Fox also expects the team to be…
Download it now. Nintendo has been rolling out updates for many of its games in the lead up to the end of the year, and today it’s released new patches for Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2. Here’s the full rundown, courtesy of the official Nintendo support pages This update improves the experience…
Chris Stair, one of the creators of action platformer Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus, was in Kyoto celebrating the game’s launch at indie festival BitSummit when he got the news: The publisher he’d trusted with all of the launch logistics was effectively gone. All 36 employees had been laid off. “We had a Slack…
There comes a point in every cool new and/or retro revival indie genre where there are just way too many to play all of them, even if you love the style: Metroidvanias, boomer shooters, and Vampire Survivors-alikes (bullet heavens?) all spring to mind for me. As a big fan of the genre, I can confidently…
After years of being accepted as just how things are done, crunch—working horrifically long hours for weeks or months at a stretch in order to meet an arbitrary deadline set by an executive who’s probably still going home on time every night—is now widely frowned upon in the videogame industry. But it also seems to…
As it did to many in my generation, Pokémon Snap left an indelible imprint on my childhood psyche. Even at a young, tender age, I admired the rarity of a game that celebrated the simple act of observing creatures in their natural habitat instead of attacking them on sight. I’m all for fighting fake creatures,…
XIt’s been a bad few days for Larian Studios and CEO Swen Vincke. Instead of basking in the glory of its first post-Baldur’s Gate 3 project, revealed at The Game Awards as Divinity, the studio has been dealing with the ugly aftermath of Vincke’s comments about the use of generative AI at Larian. In a…
The Forge is part Roblox RPG, part mining sim, and what’s an RPG without a little off-the-beaten-path questing? One of your first side gigs begins in Stonewake’s Cross, sending you on the hunt for a fellow explorer’s missing pet in the Tomo’s Lost Cat quest. Despite his weirdly perky demeanor, Tomo is pretty down about…
This year’s Steam Winter Sale has arrived, but don’t let the biggest game sale of the year stress you out when you’re already frazzled enough by the rest of your holiday shopping. We’ve picked through the mountains of games on Steam to find the deals you should actually care about. Below, we’ve highlighted Winter Sale…