Apple Arcade hit ‘Grindstone’ makes its way to Switch today

Posted on 15/12/2020 by Engadget

Grindstone, the stellar Apple Arcade puzzler from Sword and Sworcery studio Capybara Games, is available on the Nintendo Switch right now. It’s a timed exclusive on the new platform, which means it’ll likely hit additional consoles after a predetermi...

‘Among Us’ hits Nintendo Switch today

Posted on 15/12/2020 by Engadget

Among Us, one of the most popular online games of the quarantine era, is scheduled to go live today on Nintendo Switch, complete with cross-platform play. Unlike discovering your best friend has been an Impostor this entire time, today’s announcement...

‘Rocket League’ Season 2 adds a new arena, car and music next week

Posted on 01/12/2020 by Engadget

Sure, Rocket League has been out for more than five years, but it’s never too late to try something new. Rocket League Season 2 goes live on December 9th, adding a new Arena, Rocket Pass, customization options and original music from Kaskade.The Rock...

‘Fall Guys’ will be infiltrated by untitled geese on November 13th

Posted on 10/11/2020 by Engadget

Fall Guys is becoming even more adorable with its latest costume, the goose from Untitled Goose Game. The new suit goes live on Friday, November 13th, but developers at Fall Guys studio Mediatonic showed it off on Twitch today. Notably, the four deve...

‘If Found…’ brings queer ’90s nostalgia to Nintendo Switch today

Posted on 22/10/2020 by Engadget

If Found… should be particularly poignant on Switch. Its main mechanic is erasure, flipping through the pages of the main character’s journal and rubbing away the memories there. It’s the 1990s and Kasio, a young transgender woman, returns to an unsu...

Sega’s Golden Axe celebration turned into a crunch commemoration

Posted on 16/10/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Tim Dawson woke up on Thursday to a surprise. As part of its 60th anniversary celebration, Sega is releasing Golden Axe: Reborn, a reboot that Dawson, designer Sanatana Mishra and a handful of other developers built for Sega Australia in 2012, one ye...

Influential indie studio Vlambeer is shutting down after a decade

Posted on 01/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

The first time Rami Ismail and Jan Willem Nijman spoke to one another, it was early morning in 2008 and they were riding the train to the Utrecht School of the Arts, where they both studied game design. Ismail was holding court with a group of friend...

Caught between Epic, Apple and Google, indie devs watch and wait

Posted on 21/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Let them fight.”Rami Ismail, co-founder of Ridiculous Fishing studio Vlambeer, is not interested in joining any lawsuits on behalf of Epic Games, Apple, Google or any other billion- or trillion-dollar business. Because really, even though Epic’s lega...

‘Untitled Goose Game’ will get a two-goose mode in September

Posted on 18/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Untitled Goose Game? More like Untitled Geese Game. House House’s adorably annoying bird simulator is getting a free two-player update on September 23rd across all platforms. Untitled Goose Game is also heading to Steam and Itch that same day, with t...

Stylish PC roguelike ‘Hades’ heads to Switch this fall