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June 2, 2026
Beehive Studios’ debut creature collector gets the combat right and the world beautiful. If only it trusted the player with its story sooner. Editor’s Take Lumen Tale: Memories of Trey delivers one of the most tactically satisfying battle systems in the creature-collecting genre, wrapped in a gorgeous 2 D-meets-3 D world, but its insistence on withholding narrative payoff …
June 1, 2026
Realm of Ink does not hide its influences. Leap Studio’s action roguelite wears its Hades-shaped silhouette openly, from the brisk room-to-room combat flow to the way each run asks you to improvise around a growing pile of synergistic upgrades. That familiarity could have made it feel derivative. Instead, it mostly works in the game’s favor …
May 29, 2026
Good-Feel’s latest Yoshi outing trades challenge for discovery and ends up delivering Nintendo’s most inventive platformer in years. The question is whether the industry knows how to celebrate a game like this. Editor’s Take Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is a breathlessly imaginative platformer that replaces traditional challenge with systemic discovery, delivering a hand-crafted toybox …
April 30, 2026
Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream does not chase the soft, low-stakes comfort that defines many modern life sims. Instead, it leans into absurdity. It is loud, awkward, funny, and often completely unhinged. That choice works because Nintendo understands the appeal of this series: you are not building a peaceful retreat so much as managing a …
April 29, 2026
There was a time when Capcom felt comfortable taking expensive swings. Alongside defining hits like Resident Evil 4 and Devil May Cry, it also backed stranger, riskier work such as Killer7, P. N. 03, and Gregory Horror Show. Pragmata feels like a return to that older instinct. Rather than chasing another familiar blockbuster template, it builds a …
April 3, 2026
If rainbow lighting on your preferred plumber’s face sounds ridiculous to you, here’s the thing: it isn’t. The Turtle Beach Rematch Wireless Controller for Nintendo Switch 2 in the Mario & Luigi design is, according to Turtle Beach, the first officially licensed Nintendo controller to ship with RGB lighting built in. That’s not a small claim. Nintendo’s …
March 28, 2026
The full title tells you almost nothing. Super Mario Bros. Wonder: Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup in Bellabel Park sounds like a bullet-pointed press release stapled into a subtitle. But strip away the awkward naming and what you actually have is the definitive version of one of the best 2 D platformers Nintendo has ever made, now …
March 19, 2026
Release Date March 5, 2026 Developer Omega Force, Game Freak Publisher Nintendo, The Pokémon Company Our Score4. 5 Where to Buy Best Buy Amazon Pokémon Pokopia doesn’t reinvent what a Pokémon game can be so much as it quietly dismantles the assumption that those two words must always mean the same thing. Set in a post-collapse Kanto where every human has vanished and the …
March 15, 2026
Release Date March 5, 2026 Developer Omega Force, Game Freak Publisher Nintendo, The Pokémon Company Where to Buy Best Buy Amazon Pokémon Pokopia hides one of its best secrets in plain sight. The Mysterious Slate is an item you can stumble across in your very first hour of digging, but the game gives you almost no explanation for what it is or …
March 13, 2026
Release Date March 5, 2026 Developer Omega Force, Game Freak Publisher Nintendo, The Pokémon Company Where to Buy Best Buy Amazon Pokémon Pokopia sold 2. 2 million copies in its first week, sold out at physical retailers across North America and Japan, and became the highest-rated game in the franchise’s 30-year history. That kind of commercial and critical momentum doesn’t happen by accident. …
