After more than a decade away, Nintendo’s oddball life sim returns with Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream for Nintendo Switch.

With inventive combat, a memorable characters, and a gloriously strange setting, Pragmata gives Capcom a bold and brilliant ...

At GDC, Kate Edwards revealed how meticulous research and cultural rigour helped shape Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

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 ...

At GDC 2025, Star Wars Outlaws composer Wilbert Roget delivered a fascinating talk on the game’s bold reimagining of the franchise’s musical soundscape. “Star Wars Outlaws at its core is a heist story ...

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Control, and Disco Elysium are among the big winners at The Game Awards 2019. 2019 might not feel like a vintage year in gaming – more of a 2014 than a 2017 – but The Game ...

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 ...

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment tells a sweeping war story that makes the Musou formula feel essential. There’s nothing better than when a video game just surprises you. Whether it’s a mechanic, ...

Coming hot on the heels of March’s The Foundation DLC, Control’s second helping of post-launch content easily offers the more interesting setup. Picking up on the numerous teasers and easter eggs ...

Held as part of the 2026 GDC Festival of Gaming in San Francisco, the IGF Awards celebrates the most innovative and exciting independent games of the past year. The night’s top honour, the Seumas ...

Doom Eternal? More like… no, actually, “eternal” pretty much covers it. At the beginning of the Doom (2016) reboot, Doomguy wakes up in a tomb. He’s being prodded and poked by demons, which he’s ...

At this year’s Game Developer Conference, id Software co-founder John Romero looked back at the creation of influential first-person shooter Wolfenstein 3D. The impact and influence of Wolfenstein 3D ...