Gaming

Dinosaur Polo Club‘s minimalist strategy game Mini Motorways is coming to Steam in July 20 and to Switch early next year, the Wellington-based studio announced this week. Mini Motorways follows a similar vein to Mini Metro, Dinosaur Polo Club’s excellent previous game: a strategy simulation game about building up a …

TimeSplitters fans have long been wishing for a new game in this eclectic time travel first-person shooter series. Koch Media acquiring the license in 2018 was cause for hope, but there’s been little to come from that—until now. Today, Deep Silver (a division of Koch) officially announced that development is …

This weekend’s Final Fantasy XIV fan festival kicked off, as expected, with a keynote address focused mainly on news about the upcoming expansion, Endwalker. But while details about new jobs, zones, collector’s editions, and the release date are all welcome, there was one particularly exciting piece of news for those …

On the first Friday of every month, the Indiepocalypse zine/game bundle brings together an assortment of indie games, typically with an experimental, creative, artistic focus. Today is the second Friday of May, which means I’m a week late in sharing this news (woops!), but nonetheless, Indiepocalypse #16 is now available …

A standalone release of DariusBurst: Another Chronicle EX+ is making its way to Switch and PlayStation 4 on June 11 with both digital and physical releases, Taito and ININ Games have announced. DariusBurst: Another Chronicle originally came out in arcades in 2010, building upon the PSP game DariusBurst and taking …

Last week, ININ Games announced the western release date for Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World, and it’s not far away: May 28, 2021. Asha in Monster World is a remake of Monster World IV, which originally came out for Sega Mega Drive in Japan in 1994. That version never …

SEGA and Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio have announced Lost Judgment, a sequel to Judgment that’s due to release on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One on September 24, 2021. Lost Judgment once again sees “lawyer turned street-fighting detective” Takayuki Yagami investigating a murder, working around a …

Today, Nintendo announced Game Builder Garage, a no-coding-required game development tool that’s making its way to Nintendo Switch on June 11. Game Builder Garage lets you program your own games by connecting colourful creatures called Nodon, each of which represents some different object, function, or programming logic. In one example …

Xbox players can finally get their hands on one of the best iterations of the building game genre that Minecraft popularised, with Dragon Quest Builders 2 now available on Xbox One, both through Xbox Game Pass and as an individual download. Essentially, Dragon Quest Builders combines the block-based construction and …