Reach for the stars. The 2026 bingo card continues to expand with another unexpected surprise: a spiritual successor to Donkey Kong’s King Of Swing. Released on Game Boy Advance in 2005, this beloved puzzle platformer saw DK traversing vertical walls and avoiding hazards along the climb. Luke Sanderson’s Turnip Mountain takes that idea and adds…
Step into the ring, haunt the party, and blast into the unknown with this week’s Free Play Days! Polterguys Possession Party is available this weekend for XBOX Game Pass Ultimate, Premium and Essential members to play from Thursday, July 30 until Sunday, August 2. Additionally, WWE 2K26 and Wildgate are free for all XBOX members to…
Human translated, but Claude code was used to “decode” the Loopy’s Hitachi SH-1. I can’t help but be a little fascinated by the Casio Loopy. Released exclusively in Japan in 1995, it was a 32-bit console primarily targeted at young female gamers and was really unlike many other systems at the time, with one of…
We’re still cruising around in exotic Italian cars in Forza Horizon 6 Series 3 winter season this week, but, like clockwork, we’ve got a suite of new challenges. The most fun—and challenging—one is the Hokubu region Treasure Hunt. The only clue you’re given is of a wooden house next to a snow-covered road. A pretty…
I drip-feed roguelikes into my gaming schedule: one too many total resets and my brain could break beyond repair. I always knew this wasn’t an unusual approach but I didn’t ever think it would be an opinion I’d share with one of my favourite filmmakers, Guillermo del Toro. But the world is a strange place….
Off to a Fryeing start. We’ve got our latest look at the Japanese physical charts from Famitsu, and as will come as a surprise to absolutely nobody, Splatoon Raiders has got off to a flying start. The series is huge in Japan, and Raiders’ week-one numbers show it. The spin-off racked up 474,684 sales in…
Meta’s second quarter earnings are in, reporting revenue of $60.80 billion. That’s another record-breaking year-on-year increase of about 28%, though shares are reportedly down by about 10%. Funny, that. Now, time to take a look at how the company’s famous money-hole, its VR and AR division, Reality Labs, is doing while I take a big…
Lies of P! Big Walk! Bokura! The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy! Switch 1 & 2 eShop – Highlights…
Retro gaming enthusiasts often debate which platform produced deeper strategy: the coin-operated cabinet or the home console. Both formats shaped competitive play, but they did so through entirely different design pressures. Understanding those pressures explains why arcade and console games still feel so distinct decades later. The differences weren’t accidental. Hardware limitations, business models, and…
Old School RuneScape‘s had a content update this week—Wyrmscraig, an island designed by a player that has a new quest, a repeatable boss, a cool sword, and so on. All the neat little additions you’d expect out of a patch. But some players have been running into an obstacle. Or rather, getting stuck between two…