Pizza Tower, 2023’s best platformer, is getting a free update where you play as one of the villains with his own music and moveset: ‘Think of it as a sort of New Game+’

Pizza Tower might be the best 2D platformer I’ve played since Hollow Knight, and if you want to restrict that to non-metroidvanias, I gotta go back to 2014’s Shovel Knight for anything this good. A year after launch, developer Tour de Pizza now seems close to adding a long-promised mode where you play as one…

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Where to find metal scraps in Enshrouded

The first weapons and tools you’ll craft in co-op survival RPG Enshrouded will be made of wood and stone, but pretty quickly you’ll want to make yourself some sturdier gear. Once you begin finding metal scraps you’ll be able to craft better tools, weapons, and armor, and once you’ve met the Blacksmith you’ll even be…

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Just four months after launching into early access, Nexon’s ‘full contact sword action’ game Warhaven is shutting down

The team-based swords-and-sorcery brawler Warhaven launched into early access on Steam on September 20, 2023. Today, just four months later, Nexon has announced that it will be closing down for good in April. “Today, we are here to announce with a heavy heart that we will be concluding the live services of Warhaven,” Nexon wrote…

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Lucky Pals: how ‘shiny pals’ work in Palworld

Not to be left out of creature catching convention, Palworld does have rarer, more powerful variants that Pokémon players will likely find themselves calling “shiny Pals” out of habit. Officially Palworld calls shinies Lucky Pals instead. You could easily assume otherwise, though, because Lucky Pals literally sparkle while they walk around with a loud, shimmering…

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