South of Midnight Review – A Toe-Tapping Tapestry
Western storytelling loves to use mythology as worldbuilding, but it fixates on Greek, Roman, and Norse myths so often that it’s easy to forget other parts of the world, like the American South, have plenty of folklore as well. South of Midnight, the new action-platformer from Compulsion Games, uses this underrepresented roster of cryptids to […]
The New Highest-Rated Game Of 2025 Is One You Might Not Know
Blue Prince from Dogubomb and Raw Fury has emerged as the highest-rated game of 2025 thus far on GameSpot sister site Metacritic. In Blue Prince, players explore a manor with shifting rooms. In practice, players must navigate this manor, solving the puzzles within each room before deciding which one to go into next. It has […]
Gundam Breaker 4 Review – Steam Deck, Switch, and PS5 Tested – TouchArcade
Back in early 2016 when I was looking for import-friendly games on PS Vita, I used to often see Gundam Breaker mentioned. If you’ve never heard of the series before, think of them as hack and slash action games with RPG elements, deep customization, and a pure unadulterated love of Gunpla. Around the time I […]
Enter the chicken jockey: A Minecraft movie scores the biggest US domestic debut in game adaptation history, as some people seemingly pay just to go nuts at the meme lines
Well, A Minecraft Movie is now out, and its opening weekend at the US box office has gone pretty well – like the biggest amount of dollar signs a video game adaptation has ever chucked at people who already have a lot of money sort of well. How? Well, it looks like at least in […]
Unfinished Version Of Minecraft Movie Goes Viral Online
An unfinished digital version of The Minecraft Movie starring Jack Black recently leaked online via digital pirates, and clips of it have started going viral due to some very silly-looking moments. This Modern Warfare 3 Gameplay Feature Spices Up A Weak Campaign On Friday, The Minecraft Movie finally hit theaters after spending years in production […]
Drag x Drive Preview – Rolling Start
One of the most significant new features of Nintendo Switch 2 is its mouse functionality. The ability to turn your Joy-Con 2 sideways opens a world of possibilities for those who enjoy console gaming but recognize that some games just play better with this control scheme. Many argue shooters are better with mouse aiming, while […]
A Minecraft Movie Is Most Successful Video Game Movie Of All Time For Its First Friday In The US
[UPDATE] A Minecraft Movie pulled in $57 million in the US for its first Friday–that’s the most money for any video game movie on its first Friday ever. It’s even higher than The Super Mario Bros. Movie’s first Friday ($54.8 million). However, it’s not exactly a fair comparison, since The Super Mario Bros. Movie opened […]
The Dark Prince’ Is Coming to iOS, Android, and Steam on September 11th With All DLC Included From the Switch Release – TouchArcade
When Square Enix released the monster collecting RPG Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince on Switch last year, I loved my time with it. It had technical issues, but the charm and gameplay loop elevated it well beyond other Dragon Quest spinoffs on the platform bringing up to the same level as the superb Dragon […]
Playing Metroid Prime 4 with mouselook and at 120fps feels incredible – and like it should be illegal
While the gameplay reveal of the Nintendo Switch 2 was home to a few very exciting all-new experiences, for my money one of the most intriguing at the showcase was very much a known quantity: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. The demo available of Metroid Prime 4 felt even more familiar to a fan of the […]
The Internet Reacts To The Switch 2 Price & The Mario Kart Cow
Image: Nintendo / Kotaku Let me get this out of the way first: I’m not a Nintendo girlie. A couple of decades ago, my parents gave me a choice between N64 or PlayStation for my birthday, and I chose the team with the badass bandicoot and didn’t regret it. It wouldn’t be until 2019 that […]