The passing of hardware designer Hideki Sato has made me reflect on how the Sega Master System shaped the way I enjoy video games.

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

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

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 ...

Consume Me wins the Grand Prize at the 27th annual Independent Games Festival (IGF) Awards. The IGF awards, held as part of the 2025 Game Developers Conference, celebrated the most innovative and ...

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.

At this year’s GDC, Ubisoft Bordeaux’s lead producer, Fabian Salomon, and creative director, Stéphane Boudon, explained how Assassin’s Creed Mirage was designed to pay homage to the franchise’s ...

From Bad North to Captain Toad, from Townscaper to Tunic – why do video games make the best dioramas? It might surprise our American readers, but we don’t really make dioramas at school in the UK. We ...

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, ...

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 ...

Grid Legends races to Nintendo Switch 2, but can Feral Interactive repeat its porting magic? Grid Legends first hit PC and consoles in 2022. It earned strong reviews, no mean feat given competition ...

Blue skies, lurching water, and an island looms into view. Such were the sights that began Another Code: Two Memories, on the Nintendo DS, in 2005. A thirteen-year-old girl, named Ashley, boated to a ...