THQ Nordic and developer Purple Lamp have announced the Epic Mickey: Rebrushed release date, and the reworked 3D platformer is on its way to modern systems this fall. The game, which was originally…
June 25, 2024 | 10:50 EDT
Sometimes, the stars align and a game manages to rack up tens of thousands of players on Steam, seemingly from out of nowhere. Such is the case with Chained Together, a new platformer that asks you…
June 24, 2024 | 12:14 EDT
Publisher FDG Entertainment and developer Game Atelier have announced Otherskin, a third-person shooter-platformer hybrid that has more than a hint of the PS2 era about it. Game Atelier, whose name…
June 20, 2024 | 12:12 EDT
No doubt Super Monkey Ball fans are chomping at the bit for Banana Rumble. After all, it's been too many years since we've had a mainline entry in the series. Fret not, for Super Monkey Ball Banana…
June 13, 2024 | 09:00 EDT
Europa is an open world action adventure game developed by Novadust Entertainment and published by Future Friends Games. Players take on the role of Zee, a childlike android on the titular moon…
June 11, 2024 | 09:21 EDT
Sega has announced that upcoming spherical platformer Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble will be getting DLC themed around everyone's favorite blue spiny critter Sonic the Hedgehog, as well as three of…
June 5, 2024 | 10:30 EDT
Devolver Digital has released its financial statement for the 2023 fiscal year, and the report contains news of a Human Fall Flat 2 delay, as well as a somewhat gloomy portrait of the company's sales…
April 18, 2024 | 08:51 EDT
Looking back on it now, Sonic Mania really was a minor modern miracle. Spearheaded by Christian Whitehead, it has revitalized a franchise that’s now seeing a more consistent graph of quality, and for…
March 1, 2024 | 10:30 EST
When I talked to Riot Forge Creative Director Rowan Parker earlier this year, he made it clear the publisher wanted to do justice to your favorite champion. He acknowledged that Nunu and Willump isn'…
October 30, 2023 | 03:00 EDT
I am sitting down to write this Ghostrunner 2 review mere moments after reaching the game's credits. My mind is flooded with a mix of the euphoric highs of finishing a challenging arcade experience…
October 23, 2023 | 01:47 EDT
Charles Martinet has been the voice of Super Mario basically forever, but Nintendo just announced that he won't perform in the role going forward. The announcement made on X (formerly Twitter) pays…
September 7, 2023 | 02:42 EDT
505 Games and developer One More Level have revealed the Ghostrunner 2 release date. The cyberpunk parkour platformer, which was revealed during the PlayStation Showcase back in May, will officially…
August 21, 2023 | 09:18 EDT
German studio Lab132 has announced Astral Tracks, a 3D platformer that blends procedural platforming with a focus on speedrunning. Lab132 cites Titanfall and Spider-Man as key influences for the…
August 14, 2023 | 09:39 EDT
Today marks the end of an era, as Microsoft just shared the very last batch of Xbox Games With Gold that will be distributed in August. Subscribers will get Inertial Drift from Pqube and Blue Fire…
July 27, 2023 | 11:13 EDT
Update: The Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart PC specs have now been officially announced. They appeared via the PlayStation Blog earlier today, confirming that the details of the deleted Steam post…
July 13, 2023 | 10:13 EDT
Microids and developer Osome Studio have announced The Smurfs 2: The Prisoner of Green Stone, a new 3D platformer set in (what else?) the Smurfs universe. The game is heading to PC and consoles in…
June 26, 2023 | 10:47 EDT
Some say everybody wants to be a cat, and that’s never been truer than in recent years. Everyone remembers Stray, but it's time to move over; Little Kitty, Big City is the next cat-based game looking…
June 15, 2023 | 03:40 EDT
Ahead of Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart's, release there was one marketing idea that you couldn’t escape hearing: that it was only doable on PlayStation 5. From June 2020 through its release, this was…
June 5, 2023 | 11:00 EDT
Today Sony Interactive Entertainment announced that Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is coming to PC. The game will be released on Steam and Epic Games Sore on July 26. The pre-order bonus has also…
May 30, 2023 | 12:57 EDT
The first Sludge Life was an unexpected delight. It presented a woozy, vaporwave-style world for you to explore and tag with your graffiti, and although it was a little light on plot and direction,…
March 23, 2023 | 01:00 EDT
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Are you ready kids? SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake is a 3D action-platformer that takes you right to Bikini Bottom to embody two of the most iconic childhood characters known to sponge-kind…
March 1, 2023 | 04:39 EST
When it comes down to it, SpongeBob SquarePants really is an irreverent and universal cultural icon. Going past the memes, or the endless references to lines, moments, or specific frames of animation…
January 30, 2023 | 11:00 EST
Solar Ash is a 3D platformer developed by Heart Machine and published by Annapurna Interactive. The game is set in a surreal world, which is under threat by a being known as Ultravoid that is always…
January 7, 2023 | 01:29 EST
Lunistice is a retro-style platformer where Hana the Tanuki is attempting to head to the Moon via her dreams. It's designed to be played in short bursts, so each level is bite-sized. You'll travel…
December 26, 2022 | 05:35 EST
Are you ready kids? SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake is coming to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on January 31st. As the spiritual successor to SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle…
December 6, 2022 | 10:42 EST
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An idea that can commonly be overlooked in the indie retro revival scene is the concept of establishment. The possibility that your product was lost to time and would only see the light of day once…
November 10, 2022 | 09:00 EST
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Team Reptile has announced that the Bomb Rush Cyberfunk release date will be pushed back to the summer of 2023. They state that they really need more time to produce a game that they feel meets their…
August 31, 2022 | 01:16 EDT
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Are ya ready kids? It's about to be the best day ever because the SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake gameplay trailer has been revealed! Sporting some of the most interesting features you can…
August 12, 2022 | 04:24 EDT
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Frogun is a platformer styled after popular games from the genre released on the PlayStation One and Nintendo 64. In it, players use the titular Frogun to cross chasms, grapple between enemies and…
December 29, 2022 | 12:56 EST
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If Frogun had been released during the same time as the patformers it emulates, it would have enjoyed plenty of love from gaming at large. Host to a slew of inventive platforming mechanics…
August 2, 2022 | 09:00 EDT
Frogun, a 3D platformer that uses a frog as a gun, is coming to to PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One & Series X/S, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5 on August 2, 2022. That means the Frogun release…
July 6, 2022 | 09:22 EDT
Remasters, remakes, and reboots have seen a substantial uptick in recent years; further, no other genre has enjoyed this love like 3D platformers. What's been the most fascinating about this revival…
July 5, 2022 | 10:00 EDT
Pac-Man World Re-Pac is the remake of the 1999 3D platformer, Pac-Man World. Pac-Man World Re-Pac whisks Pac-Man off to rescue his friends and family from the evil Ghosts. In Pac-Man World, Pac-Man…
December 29, 2022 | 01:29 EST
When I heard the news that a Nintendo Direct Mini had been announced, the last thing I imagined was being wowed. The release date had already been leaked for Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope, and I…
June 30, 2022 | 12:00 EDT
Sonic Frontiers won't be delayed as a result of negative fan response, Sonic Team has insisted. Takashi Iizuka, the studio's head, says the team is convinced that "people will like" the game, despite…
June 13, 2022 | 10:16 EDT
There are tons of games about aliens arriving on Earth. Many popular titles deal with humans banding together in order to fight an outer space force with superior technology. You've got the newest…
May 31, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
Of all the platforming properties that have been on hiatus since the mid-2000s, Kao the Kangaroo was perhaps one of the least likely to get a reboot. Of course, it's got a hardcore dedicated…
April 21, 2022 | 09:00 EDT
Kao is back with a brand new adventure. Kao The Kangaroo is a 2022 reboot of the series, with the titular Kao on a quest to find his lost father. Armed with his trusty boxing gloves and jumping…
April 16, 2022 | 10:25 EDT
Kao the Kangaroo is a 3-D Platforming adventure by developer X-Ray Interactive. Originally released in Europe in 2000, Kao the Kangaroo has you play the titular Kao, who dons a pair of boxing gloves…
April 16, 2022 | 10:15 EDT
Gears of Breakfast has announced that the A Hat in Time Online Party outage is expected to continue for "several weeks" while it explores new technical solutions for online multiplayer. A…
April 4, 2022 | 03:25 EDT
After over a decade and a half, video game developer and publisher Tate Multimedia is reviving Kao The Kangaroo, a series that has been dormant since 2005's Mystery of the Volcano. This time around,…
February 21, 2022 | 01:00 EST
We're not even two full weeks into 2022 and it is still maddening just how many great video games came out last year. But my mind kept going back to one title in particular, one that managed to…
January 12, 2022 | 01:00 EST
There are some developers who remain steadfastly in their comfort zones throughout their careers. Heart Machine cannot be said to be one of them. After 2016's Hyper Light Drifter used Zelda-style top…
December 9, 2021 | 11:00 EST
There's a bit of bad news for fans of Heart Machine -- the Solar Ash release date has been delayed to December 2021. On the upside, you won't have to wait too much longer to play it. Solar…
October 13, 2021 | 02:32 EDT
Sometimes, a series will stay really niche even if it deserves to be more popular. That’s why no one will listen to me when I preach the gospel of Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg anymore. It’s sort…
September 29, 2021 | 12:00 EDT
Super Monkey Ball returns to the spotlight to cause some chaos in Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania, the ultimate Super Monkey Ball experience. Play in 300 stages found in the original titles of the…
September 26, 2021 | 05:13 EDT
Looking to survive a colorful alien invasion in a noir-inspired gangster's paradise? Look no further than Timothy's Night, a third-person shooter-platformer game by Wild Sphere S.L. Play as Timothy…
September 26, 2021 | 04:51 EDT
It was gonna be just another night: raid the liquor cabinet harder like Eliot Ness once the Sun escaped from the venetian blinds. Proofs in the double-digits wouldn't suffice. This wasn't like most…
September 21, 2021 | 10:30 EDT