Month: August 2025

As Gamescom kicks off in Cologne, Germany, we got to sit down with Wan Hazmer, co-founder of Metronomik, and talk about the upcoming sequel to No Straight Roads. The second game aims to continue the rock-and-roll rhythms by taking the music adventure to new heights and new locales. Read on to find out about the…

After launching a closed alpha in February of this year, Rust Mobile’s accounts are active once more, announcing the game’s first closed beta. Gamescom attendees are the first to gett their hands on the mobile reimagining of Facepunch’s survival game, but if you’re not in Cologne this week, you won’t need to wait too much…

I’m at Gamescom right now, previewing new Switch games and getting up close and personal with exciting hardware, namely the ROG Xbox Ally. Asus’ brand-new handheld PC is an odd concept for me, as the current ROG Ally Z1e and ROG Ally X are still quite young. What attracts me to the Xbox Ally is…

Steam’s tri-annual Next Fest celebrations are some of my favorite times of year because I get to discover so many new indie games via their demos. One such game was Is This Seat Taken?, a charming, indie puzzler based on solving everyday problems and finding the perfect seat for each anthropomorphic shape. Since the Steam…

Stop the presses – there’s an Infinity Nikki x Stardew Valley collaboration happening and we can’t quite get our heads around it. Will this draw us back to play the fashion-focused gacha game after a tumultuous 2025? The news dropped randomly on August 20, with a trailer on the Infinity Nikki YouTube Channel, and social…

The latter half of the year usually brings the latest phones from several manufacturers, such as Apple, Samsung, Oppo, and more. But OnePlus looks set to blow past much of the competition around the same time with its upcoming flagship. Despite releasing its latest flagship, the OnePlus 13, earlier this year, the Chinese maker is…

As part of Pokémon Go Fest: Max Finale, the free mobile game is adding 100-player lobbies to Gigantamax raids. The more people take part in a lobby, the higher your chance of success in the raid, so get your planners out and start recruiting all of your Pokémon Go friends. Gigantamax Pokémon, first seen in…

Playing Fortnite is just one way to enjoy the third-person shooter – you can and should be watching other people play, too. It pays to be hyper-invested in your hobbies, as you Fortnite heads are finding out with the latest skin bundle, the Skulldroid. The bundle, which would usually cost 2k VBucks, is now a…

Since Alexey Pajitnov’s Tetris debuted in 1985, the world’s been flooded with renditions and knockoffs of the iconic block-dropping puzzle game. (Columns on the Sega Genesis was my childhood favorite.) From Welltris to Hatris, we’ve seen it all, but nothing compares to Tetris Effect: Connected, now 50% off at Humble. Continue reading Tetris Effect Connected…

I don’t know about you, but my favorite reveal from Gamescom’s opening night was the Cult of the Lamb Woolhaven DLC. It’s a full-length paid expansion brimming with new content, including cows and extreme weather conditions. Cult of the Lamb is one of my favorite indie games on Switch, so I’m really glad to see…