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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

When publishers passed on Venba, the game’s commercial prospects looked slim, but the public’s appetite for a very personal cooking game proved the tastemakers wrong. Venba is a cooking game in which ...

A lurid 60’s West Virginia, paved in pixels, beckons you to Mothmen 1966, like a human to fine interactive fiction. But, not all glimmer houses bliss, and some can even dissipate long before you’d ...

Warning: This article will contain general location, character and story spoilers for The Last of Us Part II. You’ll be familiar with the title screen of The Last of Us Part II, even if you’ve not ...

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 ...

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 ...