There’s a somewhat humorous precedent set with this Monsterverse malarkey. Here we are, a universe with giant sprawling kaiju that simply cannot stand each other, and in the middle of it? Terry…
October 22, 2024 | 10:00 EDT
Since its announcement, Animal Well has been one of my most anticipated games. Detailed pixel graphics, platforming, and enough confidence in their puzzles to hide one in the announcement trailer. It…
May 9, 2024 | 09:00 EDT
I love me a good platformer, whether is be a AAA title like the excellent Super Mario Bros. Wonder, or smaller projects like 2022's Shovel Knight Dig. Every good game in the genre needs a hook to it…
March 28, 2024 | 12:00 EDT
Prince of Persia hasn’t been in the limelight for years, with its last mainline entries barely making a splash (Forgotten Sands, indeed). Thankfully, The Lost Crown brings it back to the forefront…
January 11, 2024 | 12:00 EST
Look, you can probably guess what I'm going to say: Super Mario Bros. Wonder is good. Well, you guessed wrong. It's not good. It's amazing -- wonderful, even. After what could be considered some…
November 3, 2023 | 11:00 EDT
Sonic Superstars has a lot to live up to. Fresh off the well-received reinvention of 3D Sonic with 2022’s Sonic Frontiers, Superstars is the blue blur’s next outing in a strictly 2D adventure. The…
October 13, 2023 | 09:00 EDT
One of my earliest gaming memories was with Mega Man X4. It had so much style and frantic action that tickled my brain just right, and I had to find out what the rest of this series was like. Outside…
August 8, 2023 | 11:25 EDT
It’s interesting how speedrunning in video games has become its own sub-genre. Pick any genre to sit alongside it, and suddenly you have a battle of optimization, wits and critical planning, all…
February 28, 2023 | 10:30 EST
Shovel Knight has starred in old-school platformers, puzzlers, and made guest appearances in plenty of others including multiple platform fighters. No genre is too far or foreign for Shovel Knight,…
September 22, 2022 | 09:00 EDT
Every video game is someone's first. For people of an older generation, they started alongside the hobby with the first steps of Mario, Link, and Pikachu. While not every game can be an absolute…
March 10, 2022 | 12:00 EST
I think most of us would revel in the idea of living in the multiverse and recent studies have shown that that may be the case. Of course, that doesn't mean we're anywhere close to visiting parallel…
March 3, 2022 | 10:00 EST
If you told me a decade ago that developer The Chinese Room would put their creative efforts towards a 2.5D platformer capturing the tone of old-timey adventure serials I wouldn't believe you.…
March 1, 2022 | 05:46 EST
When it comes to traditional 2D platformers, I’m someone who’s all thumbs. You know the picture of a bunch of kids and their mom helping them clear a level of Super Mario? That was pretty much my…
February 14, 2022 | 09:30 EST
Can you Be-Leaf It? Hoa is the game equivalent of a children’s bedtime story: a light narrative that serves as a vehicle for a comfortable atmosphere, memorable magical episodes, and an easy moral…
August 23, 2021 | 09:30 EDT
Siblings can be a nuisance but they can also be the best part of your family. Many plots involve familial bonds with plenty of games sending you on a quest to save them. This is part of the adventure…
August 13, 2021 | 08:00 EDT
Non-traditional methods of exploring a narrative are becoming pretty common these days. It makes you wonder at what point will these non-traditional methodologies become traditional and come full…
January 28, 2021 | 09:00 EST
When it comes to retro action-platformers like Cyber Shadow, there's a lot going against them. Not only are there plenty of pixelated competition on the market, there are many different expectations…
January 25, 2021 | 09:00 EST
Team Meat’s hotly-anticipated blood-spattered auto-runner, Super Meat Boy Forever, has landed. It isn’t a bad game but I couldn’t help find it disappointing. As a sequel to 2010’s highly-acclaimed 2D…
January 4, 2021 | 12:00 EST
Sometimes I feel like video game power fantasies could stand to be a little more realistic. You can keep your unstoppable space marines, your intrepid heroes, and your master tacticians. Give me a…
August 13, 2020 | 03:05 EDT
Inti Creates really needs more credit for what they do. Retro-style platformers are just about everywhere, but this studio has the most consistent quality with all of their efforts. They have turned…
July 10, 2020 | 12:00 EDT
Each and every one of us has experienced true guilt at some point in our life. Shame because of what we did or didn't do, whether it was our fault or not. Some of you may be able to call to mind a…
May 30, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
Legendary film critic Roger Ebert once famously opined that video games couldn't be art. Ebert later backtracked on this statement to a certain degree, but the cat had truly been set among the…
March 15, 2020 | 05:44 EDT
It's sometimes nice to see a piece of your childhood bought back in modern times. It's common enough these days with virtual consoles and numerous remasters or re-releases. Then again, it's sometimes…
November 8, 2019 | 02:00 EST
I think this experience best sums up the Angry Video Game Nerd II: ASSimilation experience: at the end of a harrowing ride atop a tanuki with seriously substantial cojones, the Angry Video Game Nerd…
April 5, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
Remember the days when faux-futuristic spacemen blasted their way through alien hordes in pursuit of some alien villain or kidnapped dame? Redro Games does, and their tiny team have provided a window…
March 1, 2016 | 09:00 EST
I am guessing you aren't living under a rock, so you have probably heard about the Assassin's Creed series. You know that it’s a open-ish world stealth game where you need to go around blending in…
February 1, 2016 | 01:00 EST
Downwell is a creative platformer where your goal isn't to go up, but instead, descend as far as possible into a well. It was created by the indie developer Moppin, also known as Ojiro Fumoto, with…
January 13, 2016 | 09:00 EST
In case you’ve just gotten into gaming or have suddenly come out of a coma you've been in since 1992—if it’s the latter welcome back you’ve got a lot to catch up on—now's your chance to play some…
August 25, 2015 | 10:30 EDT
2D, sidescrolling shooters are not as easy to come by as they used to be, and finding a good one is even harder. So when I got the chance to play a demo version of Gryphon Knight Epic a year ago, I…
August 20, 2015 | 09:00 EDT
Tembo the Badass Elephant was perhaps the game that I was most looking forward to this year. Published by Sega and developed by Game Freak, the developers behind the Pokemon series, I truly believed…
August 10, 2015 | 09:00 EDT
Surprisingly, the title of this review is actually reasonably appropriate for the game, so I pass the lack of clickbait test. The Adventures of Pip is a pixel platformer for Steam that allows you to…
August 1, 2015 | 09:00 EDT
Every now and then you find a game that puts together a lot of very unlikely things and creates something awesome. In Luckslinger, you play as a bounty hunter in a western setting with hip-hop music…
July 14, 2015 | 09:00 EDT
Blaster Master is one of those games, that whenever I hear someone speak about it, it is always positive. It's something that a lot of games really don't have going for them. So when the opportunity…
June 26, 2015 | 01:00 EDT
World War I is a subject that is relatively underrepresented in gaming, especially when compared to World War II. It is a much more nuanced war than WWII, making it less black and white morally. It…
June 12, 2015 | 01:00 EDT
One of the strangest trends in indie gaming over the past couple of years has been NES-styled platformers. Half banking on nostalgia and half banking on difficulty, most NES-inspired indies are…
December 18, 2014 | 01:00 EST
Potatoman Seeks the Troof is a quirky side-scrolling platformer from Pixeljam. The game was originally released in December of 2012 and now has received a big update. As of December 3rd, it is…
December 12, 2014 | 01:00 EST
Now to let you all know up front, this game is in Early Access, and as of this date, I am still unsure if it has an ending... Other than that it is a very fun platformer game, but it is far from…
December 8, 2014 | 01:00 EST
When we think about video game development cycles, we usually imagine months of work, dozens of people involved and big budgets. That’s not entirely false. Making a video game takes time and…
December 3, 2014 | 01:00 EST
Very few games celebrate culture in the way that Never Alone does. There aren't many examples of games made to educate the player on the history and traditions of a rarely represented people. This…
November 27, 2014 | 11:00 EST
Magnetic By Nature is the tale of a robot lost deep underground in the remnants of what appears to be a 1920s Art Deco technological utopia. The Art Deco vibe carries throughout the whole game, tying…
November 23, 2014 | 01:00 EST
The Legend of Dark Witch is a game that combines the frustrating designs in MegaMan and combines it with the infuriating genre of bullet hell. Which, in my opinion, breaks the game in so many aspects…
October 29, 2014 | 01:00 EDT
When people toss around the term "indie game" these days it sometimes refers to really weird "games" that don't resemble the games that most people have come to love and enjoy playing. Fez, however,…
October 12, 2014 | 01:00 EDT
Azure Striker Gunvolt is the epitome of fun, in my books. This is definitely a must for any Mega Man fan, as it combines a lot of the core features of the Mega Man franchise while also bringing its…
September 16, 2014 | 09:00 EDT
Enjoy Rogue-like games such as Hammerwatch? Like platformer games like Rogue Legacy? Then Vertical Drop Heroes HD will fit right in. Gameplay The game has a lot going for it. You start off as…
September 13, 2014 | 11:00 EDT
In 2014, the concept of making a game that would feel at home on an NES or SNES is by no means new or original, but Yacht Club Games, the team behind Shovel Knight, scribed another love letter that…
June 26, 2014 | 10:00 EDT
Deadlight was one of the May Games with Gold for the Xbox 360. It's a very frustrating game. That doesn’t mean it's not a good game. It just seems rough. Take a look below and see what I mean.…
May 30, 2014 | 09:00 EDT
SteamWorld Dig is a 2D Platformer that has been out for the PC and Nintendo 3DS for a few months now and has received ratings that definitely well deserved. Putting you in the shoes of Rusty, a robot…
March 25, 2014 | 10:00 EDT
For the number of times I cursed at the screen during my time playing Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, one would think that I couldn’t stand the thing, and only continued playing for my own…
March 3, 2014 | 10:30 EST