The very first video game I ever played starred an anthropomorphized marsupial named Crash Bandicoot. The year was 1996. Having an Internet connection meant paying for AOL, and Disney didn’t own ...

While all eyes have deservingly been on Astro Bot and its spectacular platforming thrills in 2024, it’s easy to forget that a lot of lesser-known platformers have been quietly killing it this year.

When the PlayStation 2 was released, and game studios were able to create more realistic and immersive games than ever before, the platforming genre that had dominated the gaming industry in the 90s ...

Bubsy 4D is a throwback to an older era of 3D platforming that can be a lot of fun -- even as it struggles with the genre's ...

Platformers helped define the video game industry long before modern open-world games and live service titles became dominant. The genre introduced millions of players to gaming through simple ...

Bubsy 4D reorientates gaming's most oddball platforming mascot into a genuinely fun and enjoyable collect-a-thon that rewards ...

Welcome to the latest edition of our indie game roundup. We've got quite a bit on deck this week, starting with a few nuggets of news. In case you missed it, the Steam Summer Sale is upon us, which ...

3D Platformers used to be on top of the gaming world with everyone in the publishing space looking to have their own mascot platforming game. Because of this, there is a wealth of retro and obscure 3D ...

When 3D platformers hit the gaming scene in the mid-1990s, they represented a plethora of new possibilities. Suddenly, players could move all over the environment in any direction and see the world ...

The long-awaited cyberpunk platformer Replaced just got hit with a short delay. The pixel-art game was supposed to come out on March 12, but will now be released on April 14. That's just a month, ...

From motion controls to cover shooters, these are ten gaming trends that players didn't realize marked the end of a ...

Remember when Boss Team Games announced it was working on two games based on the 1978 slasher classic Halloween yesterday? Well, the studio followed up on that news today by revealing one of those ...