A spooky NES platformer, more N++ and other new indie games worth checking out

Plus, details about two upcoming indie showcases, as well as a battle royale for people who are good at typing.
Digital Trends

There’s one last thing cross-platform games need to make standard to be perfect

Listen, I’m not the biggest fan of Fortnite, but I have to give it respect for accelerating cross-platform support in the industry. There were only a few rare exceptions before Epic Games bullied Sony ...
Adventure Gamers

10 best platformer games: Vibrant worlds to explore in 2025

The best platformer games are those that manage to challenge the player while still telling a compelling story. Platformers of this quality can be found in all sorts of interesting niches and ...

10 years later, legendary platformer gets a big surprise update as the devs tease a new game: New "super hard super-secret" levels are "so challenging that it'll take y…

With the anniversary in mind, the devs say they've created "a gift" for fans: "some super hard super-secret Solo levels, a ...
Forbes

This Young Entrepreneur Is Making Learning About Geography Fun—Through A Fast-Growing Game

Gautam Anand, a high school senior from Rochester, Minn., created the fast-growing game WorldGuessr to help people get a taste of life in other parts of the world—and, with more than 50,000 downloads ...
Engadget

Valve rolls out a new Steam store menu to make it easier to find games

Valve has broadly rolled out a new Steam store menu after testing it since July. This redesign is available for the standard Steam PC client, the Steam Deck and Steam Mobile. The big news here is that ...
TweakTown

Halo Online may return as cross-platform free-to-play game that launches on PC, Xbox, and PS5

TL;DR: Halo Studios is reportedly developing a persistent, always-online free-to-play Halo multiplayer game, possibly a spiritual successor to the canceled Halo Online. Speculation suggests a ...
GamesRadar+

2XKO director says players should know the LoL fighting game "might not be good" at everything at first, but Riot will "address it" – "We're going to make mistakes"

Fighting Games 2XKO director wants to rub shoulders with giants like Street Fighter, but the League of Legends fighting game has "got to earn that spot" Fighting Games Free-to-play League of Legends ...
Variety

Google Play Launches Integrated Gaming Platform With AI Assist, Curated ‘You’ Tab and PC Game Offering

A revamped version of Google‘s app store Google Play launched Tuesday with features including an integrated gaming platform that will soon incorporate AI assistance, a new curated content “You” tab, ...
Pocket Gamer.Biz

Unity launches AI Council to accelerate innovation across game development platform

Jia Li of LiveX AI and Julian Togelius of NYU and modl.ai are the inaugural members. Jia Li leads the development of advanced human-like AI agents and has a background at Google Cloud AI and Stanford.
PC Gamer

Nvidia's gen-AI facial animation tech is going open source, potentially making it much easier for game devs to turn real-time speech into convincing characters

Nvidia has announced that its Audio2Face animation technology is going open source. On paper, that should make it much easier for a wide range of game developers to create AI characters with ...