Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, Bertie fixates on a fiendish roguelike with an outrageous mash of ideas; Matt ...

Opening moments of games can often feel long and slow, and may even be boring as the game must teach you how to play it first thing. They’re a necessary evil, but there's a new high bar, as the new ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Nintendo was a trailblazer of the platformer genre, but violence has ...

Platformers have been around for a long time, going back to the earliest days of home video game consoles. As each new console generation came and went, developers produced some exceptional games, ...

Check out this trailer for IGTAP: An Incremental Game That's Also A Platformer, a new... incremental game that is also a platformer! Complete platforming challenges to upgrade, so you can run the ...

Of all the video game genres out there, platformers are probably the most important. While not the first genre, the early 1980s platformer boom helped establish the home console video game industry ...

Tutorials might well be the bane of the video game industry's existence. Teaching a player how to do something is surprisingly difficult to do. Even if a developer crafts an educational and ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. During The Game Awards‘ Opening Act, the 30-minute pre-show before ...

Indie game developer and publisher 2DevsOnly (which is made up of exactly two developers) has revealed their brand-new game on the way, as they unveiled the first details of Starbump. This is an ...