With mouse controls and 120fps, too! Japanese developer ITL is returning to one of its DSiWare titles, Handy Hockey, and bringing it to the Switch 2 in just two days — on 31st July 2025 — for the bargain price of £5.00 / $7.00. The original game launched as a DSiWare title back in 2010…
The next Splatoon 2 Splatfest kicks off this Friday at 10pm UK time / 2pm PT and players have the choice of deciding to choose between Team Invincibility or Team Super Mushroom in the special Super Mario-themed Splatfest. As an incentive, Nintendo has announced that the top one hundred players on each Splatfest team will…
You know what goes great with drugs? Music. Or at least that’s what I’ve been told by other people, because I would have no way of knowing myself. But it’s something I’ve definitely heard—again, from other people—and it’s relevant in this moment because Schedule 1, everyone’s favorite drug dealing simulator, is now offering a jukebox….
“You mean since the early 1990s, right?”. If you’ve been following recent events in the world of video games, you’ll be aware that big things are happening over at Xbox HQ. Microsoft has been slowly but surely increasing the number of titles it releases on rival platforms, and this trend has arguably reached its apex…
Even as it achieved fractal complexity by modeling feline alcohol poisoning, procedural bardic traditions, and delayed-action thermonuclear dragonfire, the creators of Dwarf Fortress—brothers Tarn and Zach Adams—have maintained still loftier ambitions for their legendary fantasy sim. In recent years, that effort has been guided by one goal: Creating magic. Procedural, universe-specific magic, interwoven with the…
Still on track for 2026… Today’s Level-5 showcase might not have been overflowing with release dates, but it did give us a new look at Professor Layton and The New World of Steam, with the confirmation that it’s still on track for 2026 (thank god). The new trailer is our best look yet at the…
A game designer, producer, and director who had a hand in developing games like System Shock, Terra Nova, and Flight Unlimited, Seamus Blackley is best known as the “father of the Xbox” after proposing and spearheading the creation and design of the Microsoft console’s first iteration. Blackley left Microsoft in 2002, but he was recently…
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy everything modern PC gaming has to offer—but there’s no use denying I am also a Nintendo girlie. I’m dating myself here, but the company got their hooks in me young with the Game Boy Color, and I’ve had an affectionate respect for cart-based gaming ever since. Enter an OS…
Fire Emblem, disengage. I’m always suspicious, a little tiny bit at least, of games that I play on my mobile phone. Not because I’m somehow wise to something about the platform others aren’t, but more because I’m old and remember the long and arduous ‘Trash Years’ (as I like to call them) of terrible, terrible…
Experience the original “legendary masterpiece” in HD. One of the standout announcements at The Game Awards this week was the news Capcom’s legendary action-adventure game Okami would be getting a sequel. The original game’s director Hideki Kamiya (Devil May Cry, Bayonetta) will be leading the project, but it could potentially be some time before another…