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Joshua Speer is a Staff Writer at DualShockers who has been covering games professionally since 2013, with a focus on indie games, retro games, platformers, deckbuilders, roguelikes, and Nintendo ...

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Hop, blast, and grind your way through these PS5 platformers that are so good and addictive that they've earned the title of masterpiece. From typical mascot platformers like Astro Bot to more ...

Seeing apathy in the face of doomsday, an office intern decides to save the world by themselves. But the world responds by summoning the police, angry mobs, and the media, branding them as a terrorist ...

The long-awaited cyberpunk platformer Replaced just got hit with a short delay. The pixel-art game was supposed to come out on March 12, but will now be released on April 14. That's just a month, ...

Super Spin Digital has announced Ligmanauts, a “physics-driven multiplayer platformer that channels the raw energy of early 2000s gaming culture.” It will launch for PC via Steam in Q3 2026 for $4.99.

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Many modern action-platformers aspire to blend old-school ideas with new-school sensibilities, but few achieve the balance of Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound. It retains the pick-up-and-play accessibility and ...

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In MotionRec, it is usually very obvious what you need to do in order to get Rec the robot from point A to point B. The trick comes from figuring out how to accomplish that with the character’s ...