Mario Tennis Fever puts the nostalgia debate to bed and succeeds on its own terms as an excellent tennis game for Nintendo Switch 2.

Sadly, the Game Boy Color screen isn’t backlit, but in the right conditions it’s an unmistakable improvement. Instead of showing four shades of grey, it can render up to 56 colours simultaneously from ...

Cocoon, A Highland Song, and Venba lead the nominations at this year’s Independent Games Festival awards. At Thumbsticks, we don’t focus much on news these days. However, we always appreciate the work ...

Hope is a dangerous thing in football, but for once, Nintendo players might be right to feel it. We go again. We know what we’re getting. We know it’ll be more of an evolution than a revolution. And ...

Balatro picks up the top prize at the 2025 Game Developers Choice Awards. Balatro was the big winner at the 25th annual GDC Awards. The roguelike deck builder developed by LocalThunk secured four ...

Here’s the full tracklist of songs included in Just Dance 2021, from Adore You by Harry Styles to Zenit by Onuka. Ubisoft’s Just Dance franchise returns with another floor-filling lineup of tracks.

Heading to GDC 2025? Here are our top picks from a packed lineup of panels, talks, and tutorials. The Game Developers Conference (GDC) returns to the Moscone Center in San Francisco next week, ...

Organisers of the 25th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards have confirmed this year’s list of finalists. The awards celebrate the achievements of game developers across a diverse mix of genres and ...

At this year’s Game Developer Conference, id Software co-founder John Romero looked back at the creation of influential first-person shooter Wolfenstein 3D. The impact and influence of Wolfenstein 3D ...

Another video game website will soon disappear, along with nearly a decade of articles. In the digital age, more has to be done to preserve video games coverage and criticism. Last month, former ...

Pitching a game to a publisher is a daunting experience. It’s the stage of development where artistic aspirations are tested by commercial concerns. Pitching a game to a packed hall of judges, ...

Tunic, Betrayal At Club Low, and Neon White are among the games nominated at this year’s IGF awards. The narrative goes that 2022 wasn’t a banner year for games. This year’s list of Independent Games ...