Puzzle (Page 23)

Yellow Toad jumps to grab a Wonder Seed in Super Mario Bros Wonder

Guide

How to solve Search Party: Puzzling Park in Mario Wonder

Get all five Wonder Tokens to reveal a Wonder Seed.

Oct. 26, 2023 Tom Senior

News

Here's everything featured in the Xbox Partner Preview showcase

Spooky oil rigs! Haunted granny! More!

Oct. 25, 2023 Matt Wales

Artwork for Amnesia: The Bunker showing a scene viewed from the protagonist's perspective. His raised gun is visible in the foreground, pointing toward a shadowy creature looming in the centre of the image.

News

Amnesia: The Bunker ups the terror with hardcode Shell Shock update, out today

Also adds new custom mode.

Oct. 25, 2023 Matt Wales

Destiny's moon-like Traveller god hovering very close above what I imagine is probably Earth. It's almost completely white but with some machinery showing on a peeled away surface at the bottom.

Feature

Supporters | Five of the Best: Futures

It's time.

Oct. 25, 2023 Robert Purchese

A Sayonara Wild Hearts screenshot showing a masked woman in jeans and braces leaning against a motorcycle in a stylised, purple-hued world.

News

Annapurna is putting 12 acclaimed games on one $200 Switch cartridge

In collaboration with iam8bit.

Oct. 24, 2023 Matt Wales

Suika gameplay showing a leaderboard on the left, a guide on the right, and the game area in the middle. A number of different sized round fruits are stacked next to each other. A winking watermelon sits in the middle

News

Watermelon Game now has English support on Switch

Heard it through the grapevine.

Oct. 24, 2023 Liv Ngan

A Hotline Miami screenshot showing a series of interconnected rooms strewn with bloody, white-suited corpses, all rendered in a simple pixel art-style and viewed from above.

News

Hotline Miami 1 & 2 just got a native release on Xbox Series X/S and PS5

Free upgrades for existing owners.

Oct. 23, 2023 Matt Wales

News

Sony has just dropped another batch of brilliant game soundtracks onto Spotify

Fresh drops include the official OSTs for Gravity Rush, Shadow of the Colossus, and Wild Arms.

Oct. 22, 2023 Vikki Blake

Link and his boat on the ocean in Wind Waker

Feature

Lost | The day of landing: why video games and islands belong together

Shore thing.

Oct. 22, 2023 Christian Donlan

A poster advertising the Super Mario Bros. film from 1993, with the Mario and Luigi characters stood in front of a very bright and big letter M behind them. They're pumped. They're ready for some fun. Pity the film wasn't.

Feature

Supporters | Five of the Best: Day jobs

Punch-in above.

Oct. 18, 2023 Robert Purchese

News

Phasmophobia's console release gets delayed again

"We promise... it will be worth the wait."

Oct. 18, 2023 Liv Ngan

A cut-scene image from Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley, showing the green-clothed Snufkin sitting on a small wooden bridge with the iconic Moomin - a kind of white and small hippopotamus. The forest around them shows that autumn is turning to winter.

Feature

The cosiest game of the winter may well be Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley

Rock and troll.

Oct. 17, 2023 Robert Purchese

A close-up of a plastic Mario figurine, with its arms spread, in a welcoming gesture. I'm not sure what he's welcoming us to, though - there's nothing else around.

Feature

Inside Nintendo in the 1990s: Star Fox, late nights and making the N64

"I think we managed to do all of the things they said don't do!"

Oct. 15, 2023 Robert Purchese

Assassin's Creed Mirage's main character Basim leaps from above, arm raised in attack.

Feature

What we've been playing

A few of the games that have us hooked at the moment.

Oct. 13, 2023 Robert Purchese

A screenshot from The Evil Within showing an aproned man with a barbed-wire-wrapped safe for a head standing in a filthy tiled corridor.

News

Shinji Mikami's survival horror The Evil Within is next week's Epic Store freebie

Alongside Eternal Threads.

Oct. 13, 2023 Matt Wales

Hardhat Wombat screenshot - a cartoon wombat dressed as a construction worked has built a 2D castle out of wombat faeces. I'm not here to judge.

Feature

George Fan, creator of Plants vs Zombies, on design and his new game about the greatest fact in the world

And whether three months is enough time to ruin a friendship.

Oct. 11, 2023 Christian Donlan

Blog

Podcast | How video games have helped us with our mental health

With Victoria, Bertie and Johnny Chiodini.

Oct. 10, 2023 Victoria Kennedy

News

Play the The Talos Principle 2 early with this "bespoke" demo

Plus save 10 per cent if you pre-order now.

Oct. 8, 2023 Vikki Blake

Trevor Hills tries to escape in American Arcadia

News

Truman Show-like American Arcadia gets November release date

Demo on Steam now.

Oct. 6, 2023 Victoria Kennedy

News

Nintendo to shut down online play across 3DS and Wii U as of "early April 2024"

Offline features will still be available.

Oct. 4, 2023 Victoria Kennedy

A papercraft flying machine navigates hot air baloons above a city in The Wings of Sycamore

Feature

Skymindedness | The Wings Of Sycamore captures the adventurous spirit of early aviation

Look up!

Oct. 2, 2023 Henry Stockdale

Video

VR Corner | This fan-made VR Mod for Portal 2 is so good it'll make you wonder why we never saw an official version

|ur in this week's VR Corner! Watch Ian play the first ho|

Oct. 1, 2023 Ian Higton

Lords of the Fallen promotional image showing a bedraggled main character looking out over a burnt orange and brown landscape witha giant five-fingered hand in the far distance jutting out from the horizon

Feature

What to Play This October

Our recurring series curating the month ahead.

Oct. 1, 2023 Chris Tapsell

A Tomb Raider 2 render of Lara Croft, in iconic green top and brown hot pants, backed up against the corner of a wall, gun at the ready.

Feature

Cocoon, Tomb Raider 2, and the pros and cons of being stuck in a game world

To the Opera House!

Oct. 1, 2023 Christian Donlan

A screenshot of the game Cocoon, showing a largely dark scene that's illuminated in the middle by a glowing green orb of some kind. A little character with insect wings stands nearby.

Feature

Supporters | Game of the Week: The impossible becomes the possible in Cocoon

Made fierce with dark keeping.

Sept. 29, 2023 Christian Donlan