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Nintendo’s collection of memorable game soundtracks has found a new home. Here’s our regularly updated roundup of every album included on the Nintendo Music mobile app. The Nintendo Music app is ...

Balatro picks up the top prize at the 2025 Game Developers Choice Awards. Balatro was the big winner at the 25th annual GDC Awards. The roguelike deck builder developed by LocalThunk secured four ...

The Independent Games Festival (IGF) Awards return to celebrate the creativity and innovation of indie game development. Leading this year’s crop of nominations is Consume Me by Jenny Jiao Hsia, ...

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom blends the series’ classic structure with innovative gameplay, creating an experience that feels both nostalgic and modern. The early hours of Echoes of Wisdom ...

Baldur’s Gate 3 and Venba triumph at the 2024 Game Developers Choice and Independent Games Festival Awards. If Geoff Keighley’s tedious exploits at The Game Awards leave you cold, this year’s Game ...

It's fitting that, just like handheld consoles through the years, the written content in A Handheld History is of variable quality. This is still an enjoyable and affectionate tribute to the past 40 ...

Cassette Beasts and Protodroid DeLTA headline this week’s lineup of new video game releases for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox. Bytten Studio’s Cassette Beasts debuted to acclaim on PC ...

Humanity and Lego 2K Drive lead this week’s lineup of new video game releases for the PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox. Humanity is a new abstract puzzle game from Enhance, the studio founded by ...

Redfall headlines this week’s lineup of new video game releases for the PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch. Redfall is the new open-world, co-op FPS developed by Arkane Austin, makers of ...