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Backpack Syndicate (Demo Impressions)
The Backpack Syndicate demo is a Pokémon Mystery Dungeon-style crawler with a clever backpack-grid loadout, and it’s an easy wishlist ahead of 2027.
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Bills Must Be Paid
Bills Must Be Paid is a cheap, satisfying incremental game about smashing piggy banks to clear your debt, let down only by its depth.
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Pokémon Pokopia: Bubbly Basin
Bubbly Basin takes Pokémon Pokopia underwater and makes a thirty-year-old Kanto feel fresh, even if it's one great area and little else
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Splatoon Raiders
Splatoon Raiders is the single-player looter-shooter that proves what the Switch 2 can do, and one of the best games of the year.
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News Tower
News Tower looks like a simple newspaper tycoon and hides three great games inside: a sim, an HR game, and a Factorio-style optimizer.
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It Is March 2008 In The Games Industry
Xbox's layoffs should send alarm bells through the industry as AAA games continue to be unsustainable.
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Star Fox (2026)
Nintendo's Star Fox 64 remake fills the gap left by the lost art of the manual, and at $50 it's the most welcoming the series has ever been.
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GTA 6 Is $80 With No Disc. Here's What That Means.
What does a soft launch do for the entire AAA games industry?
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7 Standouts From the Tribeca Games Showcase 2026
Hands-on with seven unreleased indies at Tribeca's 2026 Games Showcase, from a paper-airplane elegy to a sound-driven must-play. Which one stole the show?
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The June 2026 Nintendo Direct Was Built for People Who Already Own a Switch 2
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Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure (Game Boy Advance)
The GBA port of Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure works harder than the hardware wants to, but stumbles as the on-ramp it was built to be.
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Pilotwings Resort
A 3DS launch title revisited 15 years on: great controls, thin game, and a Free Flight mode that somehow turned grindy.