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Review Knights And Bikes (Switch) - A Zelda-Style Adventure That's Perfect For Couch Co-Op
A Nessa-sary buy
There are few things on this earth as expansive and wonder-filled as the imagination of a child, and there are few games that can communicate this concept as effectively as Knights and Bikes. The latest release from Foam Sword – a studio comprised of some ex-Media Molecule staff – manages to perfectly convey the carefree and...
Review RAD (Switch) - A Gnarly Roguelike Which Is Let Down By Balance And Performance Problems
Get bent, muties
Double Fine has long since made a name for itself as a rather ‘out there’ studio that nonetheless produces quality work, such as Brütal Legend, Psychonauts, Headlander, and Costume Quest. Its latest release, RAD, fits right in with this lineage, blending in crazy '80s themes with an action-heavy roguelike gameplay loop. It’s...
Dead and loving it
Somehow, somehow, Grim Fandango is 20 years-old this year. Twenty years! For some of you reading this review, the following game might look just like any other title from the transformative PC gaming days of the ’90s. A relic of an era where polygons were blocky, textures lacked detail and aspect ratios were square at best. But...
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Friday10th Jun 2022
Round Up Every Switch Game Featured In The Day Of The Devs 2022 Presentation
A presentation with Switch games!
Geoff Keighley's Summer Game Fest 2022 Opening Showcase has come and gone, and following directly after was the indie-focused Day of the Devs 2022 presentation. Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Double Fine and iam8bit's showcase, this second part of the Summer Game Fest stream featured significantly more Switch...
Wednesday16th Feb 2022
News Double Fine's Grim Fandango Remaster Is Getting A Physical Release On Switch
Go on a grand noir adventure in the afterlife
If you've been holding out for a physical release of Double Fine's Grim Fandango remaster on the Switch, you're in luck. The Xbox game studio is teaming up with iam8bit to release a hard copy of the game on Nintendo's hybrid system and pre-orders are now open. This 'exclusive edition' will set you back...
Thursday4th Feb 2021
Gügle Legend
Game developers are notoriously bad at archiving. In fact, Kotaku wrote a whole piece about how some games are in danger of disappearing forever, partly because of just how bad game developers are at archiving. Nintendo loses code. Floppy disks decay and crumble. Long-lost prototypes lie in dusty drawers of filing cabinets sent to...
Tuesday21st Jul 2020
Guide Day Of The Devs July 2020 Showcase - Every Nintendo Switch Game Featured
Every confirmed Switch game from the July Developer Showcase
Following the unfortunate cancellation of E3 this year, Summer 2020 has been jam-packed with online digital events showcasing video games to look forward to over the coming months. Most recently, we've had the second Day of the Devs presentation of the year and we've collected together all...
Tuesday23rd Jun 2020
Guide Day Of The Devs June 2020 Showcase - Every Nintendo Switch Game Featured
Every confirmed Switch game from the June Developer Showcase
Following the unfortunate cancellation of E3 this year, Summer 2020 has been jam-packed with online digital events showcasing video games to look forward to in the coming months. We've already had the three-day Guerrilla Collective event closely followed by the two-hour
Saturday1st Feb 2020
Feature Media Molecule Veterans On Bringing Co-Op Coming-Of-Age Adventure Knights & Bikes To Switch
"One of the biggest challenges [was] switching the confirm and cancel buttons in the menus"
Announced last week as coming to Switch in the first week of February, Knights and Bikes is a beautiful-looking co-op puzzle adventure set in Britain in the '80s. Developed by indie outfit Foam Sword, it follows Nessa & Demelza as they bike around...
Wednesday20th Mar 2019
News RAD Takes You To The Post-Post-Apocalypse For 3D Roguelike Action
Double apocalypse from Double Fine
Veteran developer Double Fine today announced an all-new game coming to Switch this summer. RAD is a 3D action game set in the Fallow, a wasteland of a world that has been ravaged by not one, but two apocalypses. Players will have to battle all sorts of creatures and work to heal the cracked and barren land you...
Wednesday13th Jun 2018
News Double Fine Is Bringing The Dual Stories Of Broken Age To Switch
Double the Schafer
Tim Schafer and the team at Double Fine have seemingly just realised the Nintendo Switch exists as they've announced not one game for the hybrid platform, but two. First we got news that classic point and click adventure Grim Fandango Remastered is headed to the eShop, and now it's been confirmed Broken Age is also getting the...
News Grim Fandango Remastered Is Heading To Nintendo Switch
Dead to rights
E3 2018 is Christmas for new game announcements, and Nintendo Switch has another one to add to its collection in the form of Grim Fandango Remastered. The port was announced during a 20th anniversary reunion of the original cast and director/writer Tim Schafer, although no release date was announced so you'll have to wait a little...
Monday27th Oct 2014
News Costume Quest 2 Confirmed for European Wii U Release This Week
Despite its absence from the Download Update details
When Double Fine confirmed that it was bringing Costume Quest 2 to the Wii U, it wasn't surprising that a number of fans were rather pleased. The original gained serious popularity thanks to its cute visuals and solid adventure RPG gameplay, so the promise of a sequel that'll improve on that...
Wednesday1st Jul 2009
News Brutal Legend Wii Cancelled
No rockin' sauce for you
It is with a heavy heart that we have to report that the Wii version of Brutal Legend - the Jack Black-starring rock epic from the guy who did Full Throttle - has been cancelled. Terminated. Buried. DESTROYED. According to Destructoid, the plug was pulled "due to quality and technical concerns". While little solid...
Tuesday7th Apr 2009
News The Wii Gets Its Own Brutal Legend
Double Fine's gut-busting metal adventure becomes a strong likelihood for the Wii
For those unaware, Brutal Legend is a game that stars heavy-metal-groupie-turned-hero, Eddie Riggs (voiced by Jack Black), who is pulled into a world of rock ‘n’ roll fantasy where evil reigns most awesomely. Full of heavy riffs, babes and headbanging, Brutal...
