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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Here are five 2D platformers everyone forgot. 5) Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? Developer Nippon Ichi’s platformer is a comedic take on the genre, but don’t let that fool you. It’s devilishly ...

During the Gamescom Opening Night Live preshow, Atari and Fabraz announced Bubsy 4D, a 3D platformer starring the titular Bubsy, one of the many video game mascots of the 1990s. What could possibly go ...

Ethan Krieger (He/Him) is an editor at DualShockers that got started in the writing industry by covering professional basketball for a sports network. Despite being a diehard sports fan (mainly ...

I don’t envy anyone trying to make a great 2D puzzle platformer in 2025. It’s a very crowded genre, and sometimes it can feel like there aren’t many more ways to spin it into something new. Games like ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Jagneaux is a writer and analyst, covering MMOs and retro games. Today marks the release of a brand-new platformer for a ...

Nintendo just held a livestream to drop more details on the forthcoming Switch 2 console. At the very end, it revealed a brand-new 3D platformer starring Donkey Kong. This is the first game of its ...

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