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Some games have you from the start screen. So it is with Over the Alps, a narrative adventure from a team that's had experience at both Inkle and Failbetter, so knows quite a bit about this narrative adventure stuff by now. Anyway, the start screen: a stylised plane coasts over a stylised mountain range. At the bottom of the image, the legend: Alpine Adventure. Alpine Adventure! Yes please!

Sony's Christmas sales figures are in and they're good - but they're down noticeably on those from previous years.

Less than four hours into its Kickstarter campaign, Platinum Games' The Wonderful 101: Remastered has smashed all initial funding goals, meaning it's coming to Switch, PC, and PS4.

PC players hankering for a spot of big stompy robot action are in luck; developer Marvelous has announced that previously Switch-exclusive mech shooter Daemon X Machina will be heading to Steam next week, on 13th February.

Classic 80s fantasy role-playing game The Lords of Midnight and its sequel Doomdark's Revenge are currently free on GOG.

PlatinumGames certainly hasn't been shy about the project's existence, but today it finally unveiled the Kickstarter campaign for The Wonderful 101 Remastered. Crowdfunding commences today and runs through until next month with the Nintendo Switch version due this April - if the campaign is successful - with stretch goals in place for PC and PS4 versions as well as additional content. Even better, if you pledge 11,000 JPY or more Hideki Kamiya will Tweet at you and then block you forever.

Pokémon-alike Temtem wants you to know it means business when it comes to banning cheaters - but developer Crema has also drawn criticism for saying it won't review appeals.

Ty the Tasmanian Tiger's crowdfunded remaster will spring onto the Nintendo Switch eShop next month, on 31st March.

February feels like it may be Pokémon Go's busiest month ever for in-game events, with this weekend's Mincchino Research Day to be followed by a half dozen other things to do.

I never understood why people would race towards a level cap until I played Dark Age of Camelot. Why on earth would someone sacrifice sleep to power a character to maximum level? Why the rush - we'll all get there at some point. You'll run out of things to do. You won't have people to play with.

A 21-year-old Nintendo hacker has plead guilty to multiple charges, after an FBI investigation uncovered a library of child sexual abuse images on his computer.

Fire Emblem Heroes is the latest Nintendo mobile game to get a premium subscription, following the introduction of similar schemes to Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp and Mario Kart Tour.

Steam just broke its own record for concurrent users, hitting - and then surpassing - its prior record of 18,537,490 users earlier today.

If you've always wanted to work for a game developer but don't have the artistry or technical skills to become a designer, I have good news: Valve is looking to fill a range of new positions, and not all of them require a design portfolio.

An engineer has turned a broken treadmill into a PlayStation 4 controller to enable him to keep his new year's resolution of exercising more whilst still getting his fix of Death Stranding.

Former DICE art director Jhony Ljungstedt has joined Retro Studios.

Silent Hill movie director Christophe Gans has announced he's making not one but two new video game-themed movies - one based on the foggy town of Silent Hill, and another featuring the unsettling Japanese horror series, Fatal Frame/Project Zero.

Warcraft 3 Reforged currently holds the lowest user-score of any game on Metacritic.

A key period for the evolution of the fighting game, the early 90s marked the arrival of two pivotal franchises that still exist and flourish today: Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat. These are the titles that redefined the one-on-one beat 'em up and alongside SF2's cartoon stylings, Midway's digitised, violence-fuelled competitor captivated players with its memorable characters, surprisingly nuanced gameplay and buckets of blood. Highly innovative in many ways, it was put together relatively quickly by a development team of just four people.

The developer of Camelot Unchained has announced a new game.

Developer Platinum is reportedly set to announce a Kickstarter to bring Wii U game The Wonderful 101 to other platforms, including the Nintendo Switch.

Only one Animal Crossing: New Horizons island can exist per Nintendo Switch console no matter how many accounts are registered or copies of the game owned, Nintendo has confirmed.

Football clubs like to make a big splash when they announce new signings - and often go to town with fancy videos on social media.

The SingStar servers have gone dark, putting an end to one of the classic PlayStation games.

Back in December 2019, we reported on Anthony Bacon, a 3DO M2 enthusiast from Chicago who had unearthed a playable file for the original, cancelled D2 - the 3DO M2 game thought lost to history.

The planet Scarif is coming to Star Wars Battlefront 2, developer DICE has announced.

It's been less than a year since 80 Days developer Inkle released its wonderful archaeological adventure Heaven's Vault to widespread acclaim, but already - following a few teases earlier this month - it's setting things in motion for the proper reveal of its next project, which it's now confirmed will be taking on Arthurian legend in some form.

A new Sony survey is asking PlayStation 4 owners whether they'd be keen on Remote Play on Nintendo Switch.

Mike Laidlaw, perhaps best known for his work as creative director on BioWare's Dragon Age series, has announced his departure from Ubisoft, a little over year after joining the company.

Happy Second Birthday Celeste! I'm late again, I know. But thanks to the Farewell update released last September, Celeste is imprinted on my 2019 as much as it was the year before. Because Farewell is brilliant.