3D Platformers are platform games that can be divided into two categories: pseudo-3D or true 3D. Pseudo 3D platformers can have 3D gameplay (allowing you to traverse the Z axis, i.e. forward 'into' the screen and backward) and 2D graphics - these are known as isometic platformers. Alternatively, they can have 3D graphics and 2D gameplay - these are called 2.5D. True 3D platformers have both 3D gameplay and graphics and a dynamic camera.
They might allow the player to rotate the camera independent of the character to view the environment from arbitrary angles. Early 3D platformers like Super Mario 64, Donkey Kong 64, Banjo-Kazooie, and Spyro the Dragon remain popular platforming series to this day.
Insomniac Games brings their Lombax and robot duo to the PlayStation 5 in the newest entry in the re-imagining of the Ratchet and Clank series. Subtitled Rift Apart, this new entry in the series will…
June 11, 2020 | 04:32 EDT
Earlier this year, it was announced that the upcoming 3D Metroidvania Ary and the Secret of Seasons would be delayed until Summer 2020. Now, the developers have made the unfortunate announcement that…
June 10, 2020 | 01:15 EDT
Sludge Life is an anarchic first-person parkour platformer. You are Ghost, a tagger looking to leave their mark on a smog-riddled city. It's your job to find as many places as possible to leave your…
May 28, 2020 | 09:41 EDT
When I was young, I remember combing through a demolition site and finding a placard with some writing on it. This was unequivocally the most thrilling discovery of my childhood. It was, of course, a…
May 28, 2020 | 10:00 EDT
Last weekend an enterprising modder released a port of Super Mario 64 to the PC. This port included ultra widescreen support up to an astounding 4K resolution. While gamers around the world…
May 8, 2020 | 10:10 EDT
There are countless emulators to run all the classic games you like from the Nintendo 64, GameBoy Advance, Sega Genesis, and all the classic consoles. Super Mario 64 is one of the most iconic games…
May 4, 2020 | 02:15 EDT
Graffiti Games and Argentian game developer Robi Studios have announced Blue Fire as the first world premiere in the Nintendo Indie World March 2020 showcase. Blue Fire is a colorful game with a…
March 17, 2020 | 01:17 EDT
Some gamers might be said to see Ary and the Secret of Seasons delayed, but that's okay — you're also getting a new trailer to tide you over in the meantime. Check out the latest trailer for this…
February 26, 2020 | 03:03 EST
Long-awaited sequel Psychonauts 2 won't launch until 2020. Double Fine hasn't disclosed a reason for this delay. According to Dualshockers, Double Fine sent out a press release confirming the delay…
June 20, 2019 | 10:00 EDT
It's a pretty good time to be a Spyro the Dragon fan. Spyro Reignited Trilogy is coming to Nintendo Switch and PC this summer. This'll mark the first time the three original Spyro the Dragon games (…
June 13, 2019 | 09:40 EDT
It's been years since fantastic 3d platformer Psychonauts came out, and not quite as long since VR puzzle game Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin proved the universe is still lovely. Or, as Tim…
June 12, 2019 | 11:00 EDT
Today, at Microsoft's E3 2019 press conference the first major look at Psychonauts 2 gameplay was revealed by Doube Fine Productions. After the announcement that Double Fine Productions had been…
June 9, 2019 | 06:01 EDT
Spyro the Dragon has had a resurgence this past year. After being a minor part of the toys-to-life craze with Skylanders, the plucky purple dragon saw a comeback with the Spyro Reginited Trilogy, a…
June 8, 2019 | 05:20 EDT
Do you love 3D platformers? Wanna play one for free? Nobody's going to answer "no" to that question, right? You're in luck: Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2 is currently free to keep on Steam. If you wanna…
June 1, 2019 | 10:20 EDT
The wave of 3D platforming revival continues. Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2 is coming to PC via Steam on June 1st. If you don't know who Kao is, you're not alone. Kao the Kangaroo was a Dreamcast…
May 23, 2019 | 10:00 EDT
Heart Machine, the developers of action-adventure game Hyper Light Drifter, have revealed their next project: Solar Ash Kingdom. All that exists of it so far is a teaser trailer on the official Heart…
March 14, 2019 | 02:20 EDT
Psychonauts 2 got a new trailer with plenty of footage and exposition for fans of the franchsise. The trailer shows Psychonauts protagonist Razputin in a myriad of situations. A giant brain building…
December 7, 2018 | 12:14 EST
In the era of Sony, Nintendo, and Sega, everyone needed a mascot. Nintendo and Sega had already established their own, with Mario and Sonic battling it out for console supremacy. Meanwhile, Sony was…
November 26, 2018 | 02:00 EST
A bundle has been spotted for PS4 and Xbox One that packs in the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and the upcoming Spyro Reignited Trilogy. The folks over at Gematsu noted that several retailers were…
October 30, 2018 | 11:07 EDT
Fans that have been eagerly awaiting the return of Spyro might have to wait just a little bit longer as Spyro Reignited Trilogy gets delayed until November 13th. The game was previously meant to be…
August 17, 2018 | 09:12 EDT
Spyro is back in the Spyro Reignited Trilogy. Return to the Dragon Realm with your favorite purple dragon as you jump, charge, and glide your way through Spyro The Dragon, Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage (…
August 2, 2018 | 02:02 EDT
It's not only a little over a month until fans of Sony's purple dragon will be able to return to memorable locations like the Artisan's world or the Summer Forest in Spyro Reignited Trilogy. As both…
August 2, 2018 | 12:42 EDT
Update: The original leaked trailer for the Spyro Reignited Trilogy has gone down. Fortunately, the official website for this trilogy of Spyro The Dragon remasters is now live. We've swapped out the…
April 5, 2018 | 11:46 EDT
Target today apparently decided to upstage Activision, when on the official Ask Target twitter account they answered a question about Spyro Treasure Trilogy saying they weren't able to say when it…
March 21, 2018 | 04:06 EDT
Considering the success of last year’s Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, it isn’t a complete surprise to see another classic PlayStation franchise come back to life on current-generation consoles.…
February 13, 2018 | 05:09 EST
Fans of Tim Schafer have a bit of bad news on the horizon: Psychonauts 2 is being delayed and it won't be released in 2018 according to a campaign update for the game on Fig. Psychonauts 2 was…
December 21, 2017 | 06:40 EST
Following an update on the progression of the port, there's good news for 3D platformer fans out there with Yooka-Laylee coming to the Nintendo Switch on December 14, 2017, according to a page on the…
November 28, 2017 | 05:18 EST
Yooka-Laylee developer Playtonic has released a news post on the game's official website updating the community on the progress of the game's Nintendo Switch port. The product of a successful…
September 26, 2017 | 12:45 EDT
In Unbox: Newbie's Adventure, you play as Newbie, a sentient, self-delivering package. Newbie is the Global Postal Service's newest design, and he is its last chance at survival or else the company…
July 24, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
Most games rely on a certain something that helps it stand apart from the crowd. In Unbox: Newbie's Adventure, that hook is the fact that you play as a self-delivering, cardboard box working for the…
July 24, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
Yooka-Laylee is strange. It has everything I would want in a game, and yet when I finished it I felt hollow. There was some relief, but it was mostly due to the fact that it was over, and not because…
May 15, 2017 | 01:00 EDT
The release of Yooka-Laylee last month seems to have gotten a ball rolling. If you take a look at the release schedules for games, you may notice the steady uptick of animal mascots jumping around…
May 15, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
Yooka-Laylee released earlier last month and while the team at Playtonic are still working towards adding all of the promised features to the title, as well as the Nintendo Switch port of the game,…
May 2, 2017 | 02:37 EDT
Today marks the official release date of Yooka-Laylee, spiritual successor to platforming-juggernaut Banjo-Kazooie and one of Kickstarter's biggest success stories. Following a massive £2 million…
April 11, 2017 | 10:51 EDT
I have something to confess. I'm going into Yooka-Laylee fresh, and I've never played a Rare platformer of this type. That’s right, no Banjo-Kazooie, no Donkey Kong 64, and no Conker’s Bad Fur Day.…
April 6, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
From some of the team behind the classic Banjo-Kazooie comes Yooka-Laylee, a new 3D platforming game by Playtonic Games. Yooka-Laylee is a 3D Platformer Collectathon, and is the spiritual successor…
April 5, 2017 | 10:23 EDT
Update 03/23/17: Jon Jafari has posted a public comment concerning the situation with Playtonic, wishing them the best with their upcoming launch of Yooka-Laylee. https://twitter.com/JonTronShow/…
March 23, 2017 | 04:58 EDT
It has been announced that Double Fine's highly anticipated game Psychonauts 2 will be published by none other than Starbreeze Publishing (Dead By Daylight, Payday 2). This news comes from a news…
February 6, 2017 | 09:30 EST
Yooka-Laylee, the spiritual successor to Rare's classic platformer Banjo-Kazooie, is getting close to its April 11th release date. Their latest news has included the first look at one of the stages,…
January 19, 2017 | 10:00 EST
The highly anticipated 3D platformer, Yooka-Laylee, has got its release date. Playtonic, the developers of Yooka-Laylee had initially aimed to have the game be out this year before pushing it back to…
December 13, 2016 | 12:47 EST
We had the opportunity to attend a presentation with Playtonic Games to see a gameplay demo of Yooka-Laylee. For those unfamiliar, Yooka-Laylee is considered by many to be a spiritual successor to…
June 19, 2016 | 10:00 EDT
Continuing in the pre-E3 blitz today, Playtonic got a place on the Playstation Blog to announce that their crowdfunded spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie has been delayed until Q1 2017. Yooka-Layee…
June 6, 2016 | 02:57 EDT
When Playtonic Games launched their Kickstarter campaign for Yooka-Laylee on May 1st of last year, the project reached its funding goal in under an hour. Since then, Playtonic has been mostly silent…
May 20, 2016 | 07:19 EDT
Psychonauts 2 has been a success. At least, a success in terms of its crowdfunding campaign. In total, Double Fine was able to raise $3,829,024, with 24,109 backers for their campaign, with…
January 13, 2016 | 02:57 EST
Misconceptions. Fiction. Myths. All of these surround Psychonauts 2 and FIG—the latest big crowdfunding attempt. Poring through the documents, we've gone over and also talked with noted Game Lawyer…
January 9, 2016 | 05:32 EST
I guess gamers aren't that concerned about Double Fine's budgeting after all. Last night at The Game Awards, Tim Schafer announced that Psychonauts 2 was in development but would need a 3.3 million…
December 4, 2015 | 04:55 EST
In a surprise twist for the day Double Fine has announced a sequel to the popular Psychonauts. In the trailer we see how much has been stacked against the military. With nothing else to do the…
December 3, 2015 | 10:47 EST
UPDATE: The Kickstarter started today, you can visit the Yooka-Laylee Kickstarter page here. Yooka-Laylee reached its funding goal today in about 40 minutes, and as of this update, at 10:28 pm, they…
April 30, 2015 | 10:25 EDT