Here’s looking at you, Squid. Splatoon 3‘s Splatfests might not come as thick and fast as they used to these days, but it’s still a wild ride when a new event rolls into town. At least, that’s what we found this weekend, when the latest ‘Frosty Fest’ celebration arrived in the Splatlands and crowned yet…
“Honors the original Taito spirit while enhancing it with a modern artistic direction”. Commodore Industries (the Italian one, not the one which just resurrected the C64) has revealed that its official remake of Taito’s 1988 coin-op platformer The NewZealand Story launches on Steam next month. The company – which is currently embroiled in a legal…
“I sincerely feel that we have let down those who have supported us”. AYANEO is a company capable of producing amazing hardware, and we’ve been big fans of the Chinese firm for the past few years thanks to remarkable devices like the Pocket DMG, Pocket DS and Pocket Air Mini. However, AYANEO has attracted criticism…
While Anthem wasn’t well-loved at launch, it wasn’t hated either. Steven Messner gave it a middling score of 55 in his review, which aligned with my own feeling of being a bit whelmed by a game with a clear identity crisis—a live service multiplayer game that wanted you and your friends to play strongholds together,…
Garry Kitchen’s GameMaker Title Screen The dream of many a gamer is to turn their big gaming ideas into reality. The 8-bit micros of the 80s came with the tools to do so built in, with BASIC baked into the system. But, even with the extensive manual provided by Commodore for the C64’s Microsoft BASIC…
It’s not uncommon for videogame sound effects to be sourced from sound effect libraries, which is why you sometimes hear the same ones show up in movies and TV shows. I’ve heard the whooshy Doom door sound effect in Doctor Who, Event Horizon, Galaxy Quest, and plenty of other places. But there is one specific…
Best of the best (Image credit: Rockstar) 2026 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be understandably hard…
Get ready for a 2026 release. Last September, Nintendo revealed Super Mario Bros. Wonder Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup In Bellabel Park would be arriving in Spring 2026. We haven’t really heard anything about it since then, and now in a slight development, a rating has been spotted on the Entertainment Software Rating Board….
Minecraft is as robust a platform for modding as it is anything else. Even Hytale, the long-awaited, standalone Minecraft-like due to release into early access Jan. 13, can have its origins traced back to one of the biggest custom Minecraft server networks around, Hypixel. Taking after its foremost inspiration, Hytale has ambitions to let players…
I remember my first late-night gaming session clearly. The old TV stand creaked as I pulled out the NES. The cartridge smelled of dust and warm plastic, as if it had stored every battle fought before me. I blew into it the way older kids taught us and slid it into the slot. The CRT…