Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit is a stroke of genius. I can’t be the only one with fond memories of playing with Mario Kart toys as a kid—both a kid-sized kid and an adult-sized kid—using everyday household objects to build Micro Machines-esque courses and have my little karts “race” around …
With its two screens, touchscreen (in a time before smartphones made them commonplace), and stylus, the Nintendo DS presented a novel way of interacting with games that plenty of developers put to great use. Drawn to Life was one such game, a platformer built around players drawing their own characters, …
The new year is finally here! And with it comes plenty of exciting new games and things to look forward to. It’s going to be a year in which the new generation consoles, having launched late last year, start to gain momentum with new exclusives and games that start to …
Super Meat Boy didn’t invent the masocore platformer, but it certainly helped popularise it. A bloody chunk of meat makes for a surprisingly charming hero, it turns out, while its precise controls, inventive level design, and instant respawns made a captivating experience out of what might otherwise have been a …
When it comes to videogames, Warhammer might be best known for its strategy games—and fair enough, given the series’ tabletop wargaming origins. But it’s a world and setting that also lends itself naturally to Diablo-style action RPGs, with a whole assortment of monsters, character classes, heroes, and villains to draw …
When The Past Was Around is bittersweet, haunting, beautiful. A tale of love, loss, and grief, it delves into memories of a young woman coming to terms with the passing of the love of her life. It’s a short, powerful adventure—one that you’ll complete in a little over an hour, …
Collection of Saga: Final Fantasy Legend brings three classic Game Boy RPGs to Switch that have aged surprisingly well, and offers a welcome trip into the SaGa series’ history. I can vaguely recall playing The Final Fantasy Legend for the first time, some 20 or so years ago. Final Fantasy …
After the success of Life is Strange and especially Life is Strange 2, Dontnod Entertainment has become the sort of developer where the studio name alone can be enough to get people’s attention. So Dontnod announced Twin Mirror, a psychological thriller surrounding a small-town murder, it caught folks eyes, mine …
Its unwieldy title doesn’t really do Root Double -Before Crime * After Days- Xtend Edition justice. It’s a game that’s been kicking around for a few years now, but its name isn’t something that ever caught my attention enough to look into it further. Which is a shame, because, as …
It’s hard to imagine what the videogame landscape would look like without 3D Mario. Super Mario 64, especially, influenced the entire direction of 3D games, and the likes of Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario Galaxy made big impacts of their own. Such historically significant games need to be preserved …
