Indie developer Serious Bros. has brought its sci-fi strategy city-builder Imagine Earth over to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and macOS today. Set in the year 2084, humanity has rendered Earth a desolate and veritable wasteland, which, consequently, has forced expansion further into the galaxy to survive.

Imagine Earth asks players to build humanity’s future by constructing new planetary settlements, surviving ecological disasters, engaging in colonial space trade, and defending against alien invasions. It features a story-based campaign, competitive mode against the AI, and a freeform procedurally generated mode. As you build up your colonies, you will have to fend off competing colonies who wish to establish economic dominance on newly discovered planets. To do so, a hostile takeover may be necessary by buying out the shares of your competitors, which sounds eerily familiar. Perhaps the biggest threat to your colonies will be climate-related disasters such as melting ice caps, rising sea levels, and global warming, which also sounds eerily familiar.

I scooped this one up on the PlayStation Store last night for a sweet launch window discount of 30% off. Check out a new trailer below:

It is a combination like peanut butter and jelly, sweet and sour, cheese and crackers… it just goes together perfectly. Vampire Survivors has launched a new batch of DLC, titled Operation Guns, which brings in a variety of characters, stages, and weapons from Konami’s Contra franchise.

The DLC is available now on every platform you can find Vampire Survivors on: Steam, Xbox, Switch, iOS, and Android. It will launch alongside the game on Sony’s platforms later this Summer. The gameplay, which you can see below, looks insane with 22 new weapons, 11 new characters, and new music galore!

Developer Evil Raptor and publisher PLAION have announced that 3D action-platformer Akimbot is launching later this year on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. The robot-blasting adventure is said to channel the classic PlayStation 3D platformers; it is certainly hard to deny its Ratchet & Clank vibes in the new trailer below.

You will play as Exe, an outlaw robot venturing across the galaxy in a bid to save the universe. Joined by your sidekick named Shipset, you will fight hordes of robot enemies with a diverse set of weaponry, but not until you break yourself out of prison first. Check it out:

It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything from Delta Force: Hawk Ops, but today we received a little tease of how things are shaping up. The free-to-play shooter is being developed on Unreal Engine 5, and it will include a campaign mode based (in some sense) on the events of the film “Black Hawk Down”. The campaign is the focus of a new thirty-second teaser released today. It doesn’t include any action to speak of, but it shows off the gorgeous visuals we can expect to see when the game launches.

No release date has been announced for Delta Force: Hawk Ops, but it will be available on PlayStation, Xbox, PC, iOS, and Android when it drops. If you plan on picking this one up on a mobile device, don’t expect to play the campaign mode as it will only be available on PC and consoles.

Remember the movie 'The Wizard'? The movie that is basically a giant advertisement for Nintendo where a some kids travel cross country to get to a videogame tournament called Video Armageddon"? Well Nintendo basically did that in real life and it was called the Nintendo World Championships. The event has become the stuff of legends especially due to the grey and gold Nintendo World Championships carts that were given out at the event and are extremely rare and sell for crazy amounts of money. Well the Nintendo World Championships has seemingly returned and now everyone can compete. 

Nintendo has announced Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition and will include 150 challenges to complete in 13 different NES games along with multiple game modes including Speedrun mode, Party mode with up to 8 players locally and online leaderboards and weekly challenges. 

This looks like an updated version of NES Remix with online play and leaderboards and that is perfectly okay as that game was a lot of fun. Also the fact that this is called "NES Edition" makes me think we could get more of these in the future focusing on different Nintendo consoles. I could easily see "SNES Edition", "Gameboy Edition", "Nintendo 64 Edition" versions of this game coming in the future if this one is successful. 

Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition launches on July 18th for the Switch. 

A new car mechanic simulator game is on the way, but it’s not exactly what you think it is. Polish developer Bearded Brothers is creating Underground Garage, where you build, tune, and customize cars in either single-player or online co-op. You’ll dive into the world of illegal street racing while completing procedurally generated quests and challenges, or chill out in sandbox mode to focus on crafting custom rides.

Underground Garage is being developed on Unreal Engine and is said to feature detailed car parts as well as realistic vehicle damage. Based on the new gameplay trailer below, it looks like you can also meet up with other players at car meets to show off your rides, or perhaps even go for a spin in the game’s semi-open world.

There is no release date yet for Underground garage, but Bearded Brothers says it is coming first to Steam Early Access, followed by a release on PlayStation and Xbox consoles. I’m intrigued by this one – perhaps they can tap-in to one of the more popular aspects of GTA Online, and car culture in general.

It looks like, according to a late, Eastern Standard Time tweet, that Sony will NOT require Steam users to login to a Playstation account to play the popular (or now unpopular) game Helldivers 2. Here's the tweet in question. Now if you, internet could stop yelling at the actual developers of the game, it would be nice. 

We also do not know if the games have been relisted in the countries it was supposedly delisted, but we'll let you figure that out, super sleuths. We're going to go crush more bugs. 

A title originally teased and announced in 2022, MP2 and Ahr Ech released Pepper Grinder in March. MP2 is also responsible for the run and gun action adventure and absolutely wonderful Mighty Goose, and the unplayed Baba is You. So I felt like this game would be pretty cool in concept. I was right. And Devolver Digital handled the publishing. Match made in heaven, this trio. 

This game follows a sea loving protagonist named Pepper, and her drill, Grinder. A group of smelly pirates made her wreck her ship, and robbed her of her treasure. They fortunately left the drill, which you will use to navigate through most of the game. The premise is pretty straight forward here. Drill through the dirt, collect all the things, get to the boss, get your treasure back. 

As you navigate along, there are no new powers. No upgrades. What you have at the beginning of the game is what you will have for the entire game. Grinder, a jump, and a dash is all you get. As you grind your way through, you can collect jewels and mostly hidden skull coins, which double as in game currency. Your drill is how you move in and out of the dirt and sand, and sometimes there are in game mechanisms to keep you going, like Donkey Kong Country-esq cannons.

Sometimes you'll use your dash to get some extra speed, and sometime you'll use it to open and close doors, which also brings in a puzzle element. There are also checkpoints, you know, for when you keep getting smacked, or you get overzealous and fall into a pit. And I'm talking about myself. After you finish each level, you can go right back in to get missing skull coins, or even to complete a time trial. You know, for speed runners. 

There are probably about 6 rounds per level, each ending with a boss. After the first two or three levels, you can open a shop. This shop contains more hit points (up to 8) in exchange for the jewels you find along the way. You can also buy cosmetics for Pepper, and a sticker book, for some reason. There is a secret level in each which is unlocked by a key. The key costs about 10 of those aforementioned skull coins, and it's nothing but another level to maybe sharpen your skills, and by more optional cosmetics. And if you know me, you know how much I love cosmetics. 

Again, each round of levels end with a boss, and I found the first boss WAY harder than the second one for some reason. They don't necessarily have a pattern, nor do they use what you learned from the levels you went through to make it there. It's just a boss. Something to stand in your way. I'll be surprised if anyone makes it through that first one on the first try. And no matter how far you deplete that health bar, you gotta start over, every single time. 

That's pretty much it. Like I said, it's a pretty straight forward game. It is out right now for Steam, PC, and Nintendo Switch, for the cheap. If you want a cool straight forward game, pick this one up. I recommend it. Just try not to get frustrated at that first boss. He's dreadful. 

Mortal Kombat 1's next DLC character is about a month away and today NetherRealm Studios gave us our first teaser of Homelander, star of the TV show "The Boys". We also got a glimpse of some of his gruesome Fatalities as well. 

However, Homelander isn't what's hype about this teaser. To me it's the return of Ferra as a Kameo. Ferra made her debut in Mortal Kombat X as part of the Blaster Master like duo Ferra/Torr and she is just hilarious being a little gremlin that will ride on the back of Torr throughout the match.  

Homelander will be available on June 13th. 

Titan Forge Games is finally giving players their first taste of SMITE 2 with the initial Alpha Weekend not live. Alpha Weekends are expected to be hosted once per month in the lead-up to the games official Beta later this summer, with this one running through May 5th. The Alpha is open to those who registered on the official site, as well as all who pre-purchased with the Founder's Edition. Invites will continue to go out over the course of the Alpha if you've registered and haven't gotten in yet.  

This first Alpha opens the doors to 14 playable Gods: Anhur, Anubis, Athena, Bacchus, Bellona, Cernunnos, Chaac, Fenrir, Kukulkan, Loki, Odin, Neith, Ymir, and Zeus. More gods will be added in ffuture weekends and there are a few training resources available to prep players into this sequel including tips, a breakdown of Conquest mode, and a what to expect in the Alpha weekend vid. 

So if you're interested in trying out an early version of the game, go ahead and register for the Alpha. If you want to guarantee that access then the Founders version is your ticket in. SMITE 2 will eventually release on PC, PS5, and Xbox.