The holiday season is the perfect time for local multiplayer party games. WarioWare: Move It looks rad, but it's expensive. Why not try Toasterball instead? This affordable sports game lets two players team up to play volleyball against a team of AI toasters, and that adds up to a fair serving of fun. After first arriving on Steam, Toasterball is now out on Switch as well.
Monster Bath Games, the creator of the gorgeous modern arcade game Deathwish Enforcers, has launched its latest project on Steam. GuardGrave is another new arcade game, this time with a lighthearted horror theme. One or two local players can become the caretakers of a graveyard that is besieged by the forcers of evil. With hammers in hand...
Baltoro Games is a European developer that makes a wide range of games, from the Pang-style arcade action of Knights & Guns to the time management of Pixel Cafe. One of my favorites of theirs is Urban Flow, a puzzle game about managing city traffic. Now Urban Flow is getting a sequel/spinoff called Train Traffic Manager. This one promises more 4-player co-op puzzles, and it's coming to Xbox and Switch this week.
WayForward's River City Girls is an incredible beat 'em up RPG that has spawned a successful franchise and even an artbook. The first game has appeared on every modern platform other than mobile - until now. River City Girls is now available on iOS and Android through Crunchyroll Game Vault. Basically, paying Crunchyroll subscribers get free access to games in the vault, which is a great deal if you're already relying on the service to stream anime.
Thanksgiving is a time when many Americans gather with their families and watch football. Like it or not, that's the sport of Thanksgiving. Still, after the holiday has passed, people still need their sports fix, and that's where Toasterball comes in. Toasterball is a lot like volleyball except that instead of attractive female athletes, it is played by toasters from around the world. Yes, it's a silly sports game, and it's coming to Switch at the end of November.
New game announcements from WayForward are always good news, but we were especially excited to learn that the California-based developer would be creating the next game in Konami’s venerable Contra series of run-and-gun shooters. Contra: Operation Galuga is being directed by our old pal Tomm Hullett of WayForward, and it will be coming to con...
WayForward's River City Girls series of beat 'em ups is a favorite around here thanks to its lovable characters, amazing artwork, humorous writing, and abundant fanservice. Now there is a must-have book for fans of the series: The Art of River City Girls. The book was initially offered via preorders through Limited Run and is now available ...
The Behemoth is an American developer that created one of the best cooperative beat 'em ups of all time: Castle Crashers. After releasing Pit People way back in 2018, the studio has been relatively silent - until now. Alien Hominid Invasion recently launched on consoles and PC, and it's an exciting co-op follow-up to another Behemoth favorite, the run-and-gun shooter, Alien Hominid. This one features online co-op, something the original game never had.
Alien Hominid started its life as a Flash game back in 2002. The game was ported to numerous consoles over the years, most notably to Xbox 360 as Alien Hominid HD in 2007. Now, nearly one million years later, modern players have a chance to enjoy the run-and-gun action with a fresh round of mildly enhanced ports. Alien Hominid HD has arrived on Xbox One and Xbox Series consoles, Switch, and Steam.
Ask anybody, and they'll tell you that Jumanji is a dangerous game. That hasn't kept people from playing it, though, whether in the movies, an animated TV series, or video games. Jumanji: The Video Game must have done pretty well, because its sequel has just arrived courtesy of Cradle Games and Outright Games. Jumanji: Wild Adventures ...
Nobody loves a good party more than Wario, and he's finally back on Switch a brand new installment of his epic microgame series. WarioWare: Move It! features lots of waggly microgames to enjoy either solo, in 2-player co-op, or in 4-player party mode. It's time to grab your Joy-Cons and get shaking, folks! Features: Grab a pair of Jo...
It seems like just the other day that the free 'Whiteout' campaign was added to the Switch version of Vampire Survivors. Still, the team at Poncle isn't one to sit on its vampire-repelling laurels. They've already announced Adventures, a new game type that will be coming to Vampire Survivors in its next update. Three adventures will debut with said update, and they will support local co-op to boot.
