Gaming
They Bleed Pixels eyes Switch release
Bloody hard. Content warning: This game is rated T for blood and gore. Canadian developers Spooky Squid announced today via Twitter that They Bleed Pixels is Switch-bound. The original release was as an Xbox Live Indie
Chex Quest, once a breakfast cereal prize, now updated, free on Steam
Delicious blast from the past. Once upon a time, computer games were relatively common pack-in prizes in breakfast cereal, running the gamut from actual games trying to get eyeballs, to cross-branded tie-ins, to, well, cereal
Celebrate International Museum Day in Animal Crossing
Collect stamps and earn prizes. To celebrate International Museum Day 2020, the next two weeks offers up an opportunity to nab some museum inspired plaques for your home, just by visiting the museum’s original three
Mario Kart Tour adds Monty Mole, team races and room codes
Even multiplayer itself hasn’t been in the game all that long. Mobile racer Mario Kart Tour has been busy this week with a host of new features and even a new racer joining the lineup.
Assassin’s Creed ‘discovery tours’ free for a limited time
Explore ancient Egypt and Greece. Ubisoft is continuing its Play Your Part: Play At Home promotion–in which it gave out Assassin’s Creed II among other games–by offering up the Discovery Tour versions of Assassin’s Creed
The next Paper Mario game comes to Switch this summer
Paper puns run amok. Paper thin. Unfolding plots. Paper Mario: The Origami King made two things clear in its debut trailer: the irreverent sense of humour and the explosive, colourful visuals the series is known
Fortnite is, naturally, heading to next gen consoles
Older machines will be supported too. Epic Games announced today that they’re bringing Fortnite to Xbox Series X and the PlayStation 5 and they’re doing so at the launch of those systems. That’s not particularly
Limited edition Gigantamax Pokemon available one week at a time
Pika Pika. The Pokemon Company are mixing it up for the rest of the month: instead of their usual practice of giving a multi-week window to catch oversized versions of a bunch of Pokemon they’re
Unmasking Peter Parker: Grief and Loss in Amazing Spider-Man 2
The death of Uncle Ben is one of the most iconic stories of our time. Leave it to Spider-Man to be one of the few characters in gaming to actually tackle grief.
Humble serves up Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation free for a limited time
Free through Sunday. There’s been no shortage of free games lately and the Humble Store is serving up another one, this time the massive, sprawling real-time strategy game Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation. Literally thousands
