Slim Pippins. My dear Bagginses and Boffins, Tooks and Brandybucks, Grubbs, Chubbs, Hornblowers, Bolgers, Bracegirdles and Proudfoots (Proudfeet!), welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl! Before we get all Middle Earthy, let’s quickly recap what went down last time, eh? Two covers from the NSO newbie Super Ninja Boy went head-to-head in last week’s…
The latest game from Magic: The Gathering designer Richard Garfield is coming to early access on March 11, says development studio The Tea Division. Vanguard Exiles is a collaboration between Garfield and the studio, an autobattler that it says is “revolutionary” in the genre and will be “a competitive strategy gameplay experience unlike any other,…
“There will be 12 bookmarks in my game for you to print”. Ah, the Game Boy Printer – how we miss thee. One of the many leftfield accessories Nintendo has released during its history, this portable thermal printer allowed users to print off snaps they’d taken with the equally awesome Game Boy Camera – something…
‘Thimbleweed Park 2’ is coming in early 2028. Here’s some good news for point-and-click adventure games to brighten their week. Terrible Toybox, the company founded by Lucasfilm Games’ legends Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick, has just announced a sequel to its 2017 point-and-click adventure game Thimbleweed Park. Read the full article on timeextension.com ‘Thimbleweed Park…
Assassin’s Creed Shadows! Mario & Rabbids! Rayman! Ubisoft has launched a new 40th anniversary sale on the eShop, discounting a bunch of games across Switch 1 and 2. These are some pretty heavy discounts too (including a whopping 90% off the Mario and Rabbids titles!), so if you’re missing any of the games listed from…
So par, so good. Developer Pmurph Games and publisher RedDeer.Games have today announced that Golfinite, a classic-looking golf title, will be swinging onto Switch on 9th February. On the surface, this one is all about the basics: club type, swing power, direction and wind speed. Power-ups, fantasy obstacles and intrusive wildlife will also have some…
“It doesn’t take itself too seriously… the inspiration is basically my life”. At PAX East, we had a chance to sit down with the lively Nico Papalia and Top Hat Studios – developer of Athenian Rhapsody, and its newly-announced prequel, Tales of Tuscany (releasing on “whatever you play games on,” including Switch, in 2026). We…
Coming to Switch & PC later this year. The beloved isometric platformer Head Over Heels is set to get a new enhanced version later this year for Nintendo Switch and PC, from the publisher SpecNext — the company behind the Spectrum Next. First released in 1987 across various home computers, including the ZX Spectrum and…
Every so often I poke my head into the subreddits dedicated to life sims and cozy games and farming sims to see what people are recommending, and one game keeps coming up over and over again: Travellers Rest. (Yes, Stardew Valley comes up a lot too, but everyone knows that one: these discussions are usually…
A puzzle shooter and classic fighting game join the Antstream library this week. Antstream players can this week enjoy the puzzle shooter Anarchy (Amstrad CPC) and the arcade fighting game Karate Champ (Arcade). Also, this week’s challenge takes place in Double Dragon and is called “Fight of your Life”. Anarchy originally released in 1987 for…