Let’s get liminal. Finnish dev Tensori’s POOLS (sorry, POOLS) is a self-proclaimed walking sim with uncanny vibes. It launched back in 2024 on Steam and has racked up nearly 3000 user reviews in the time since, leaving it in the rarified “Overwhelmingly Positive” range on Valve’s platform, and it’s coming to Switch on 26th February….
The last remnants of Nvidia’s once-bold plan to take control of CPU specialist Arm have been defenestrated. According to regulatory filings, Nvidia has dumped its remaining stake in Arm amounting to 1.1 million shares with a value of approximately $140 million. Nvidia hasn’t commented on the move, which took place at the end of last…
I love being outdoors with the excuse of watching the birds, but given it has rained every single day here since the new year rolled in, I haven’t had a great opportunity to do so yet. Not only do the grey skies and constant downpours put me off, but the birds themselves have spent more…
60fps and 4K for a small fee. Hey, who’s enjoying their Thursday? And who’s looking forward to playing Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition later today? Yep, you read that correctly — Nintendo has just dropped the Nintendo Switch 2 upgrade for Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, which landed on Switch…
Kalos whisper. Pokémon turns 30 on 27th February, and in honour of this momentous anniversary, we’re running a series of polls leading up to the big day, asking you to vote for your favourite Pokémon from each generation. The nine winners will then go head-to-head in a final poll at the end of the month….
Commodity fetishism is the Marxist term for the process by which relationships between people become relationships between commodities. That is to say, the long narrative of the box of cereal, the pair of shoes, the smartphone you pick up from a store shelf is mystified by the scale and complexity of capitalism. You don’t see…
‘Zion: Advanced Mission’ releases in Japan next month. If you’ve been itching for a new game to play on your Game Boy Advance, then we have some exciting news to share. As recently spotted by Chronomoogle on BlueSky, it appears that Fore Stone’s long-awaited Game Boy Advance homebrew shoot ’em up, Zion Advanced Mission, is…
Developer Scope Creeps warns me as I boot up gun dating simulator Polyarmory: High Calibre Love that it is a team very much dedicated to the bit, and I didn’t have to go any further than its options menu to figure that out. For starters, there’s a toggle for BDSM clowns—much appreciated for those of…
Omega Force used Helping Hand! We weren’t the only ones to draw the Dragon Quest Builders link when Pokopia was first unveiled last year, and it was with good reason. As it turns out, we have Builders dev Omega Force to thank for the game’s speedy development time. That is according to Pokopia producer Kanako…
“The Earthion game ROM is now finalized”. Earthion was one of 2025’s best shmups, bringing Mega Drive / Genesis-level presentation to modern-day platforms – but the proposed 16-bit edition still hasn’t been released (well, not officially, at least). Thankfully, Yuzo Koshiro has confirmed that we won’t have to wait much longer, as the Mega Drive…