Nintendo buys remaining four percent of Monolith Soft, as a little treat

Nintendo has purchased the remaining shares of Monolith Soft, according to a report by Automaton. Up until recently, Monolith’s founders have held onto a four percent stake in the company, likely for symbolic reasons, but those days are done. Nintendo now owns the whole dang thing.

Monolith is primarily known for the

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Chill puzzle game Faraway sees you drawing star constellations with one button

There's something inherently compelling about one-button games since developers are giving themselves a tight constraint for their creativity. Sometim

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Blue Prince preview: Build your own escape room and then live there

Blue Prince has been making the rounds at physical and virtual conventions like EGX, Gamescom and the PC Gaming Show, and it’s already high on the puzzle community’s figurative list of most anticipated titles for 2025. It was just featured in the Day of the Devs showcase before The Game Awards, one of its highest-profile debuts yet. S

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'PBJ — The Musical' is a coming-of-age game with Shakespearean sandwiches

"If Shakespeare lived today, what would he write about?" Philipp Stollenmayer asked the audience during this week's Day of the Devs 2024: Game Awards stream. According to Stollenmayer, Shakespeare would write about the invention of the peanut butter and jelly sandwich from the perspective of a rebellious strawberry and a disillusioned peanut.

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Hyper Light Breaker will begin Steam early access on January 14

The much-anticipated follow-up to Hyper Light Drifter has a new early access date. At Day of the Devs, Heart Machine announced that Hyper Light Breaker will enter Steam early access on January 14.

The project is a co-op action game where you can play alone or with up to two allies to face down enemies and bosses in the colorful biomes of the Overgrowth. In classic roguelike fashion, players can try different builds, weapons and abilities on each run, and it should be

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Sleight of Hand gameplay trailer showcases occult card strategy in a noir world

Since its announcement in March, it's sounded like Sleight of Hand should be a fantastic stealth-action game in a magical noir setting — and now it looks that way, too. Its latest trailer, revealed in the

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Incolatus: Don't Stop, Girlypop! may be the Y2K fever dream arena shooter you never knew you needed

What would it look like if you took the fast-paced arena shooter stylings of

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Here are the 14 most interesting titles from the Day of the Devs Game Awards stream

The latest Day of the Devs showcase has come and gone, but the stream placed a spotlight on a whole bunch of promising indie games. The event is curated by Double Fine and iam8bit and this digital showcase highlighted dozens of in-progress titles to keep an eye on. The virtual show included some world premieres and release date announcements, along with a bunch of new trailers about games we already knew about.

We win

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Instagram, Threads, Whatsapp and more down as part of Meta outage

Meta apps and services like Instagram, Facebook, Threads and Messenger are down as part of an apparent outage. Staff at Engadget and users across X and

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