How Rayman 2 "offered 2D gameplay situations in a 3D environment" to deliver the best of both worlds

When he decided to present his Rayman video game project to Ubisoft, he brought a 150-page file describing the whole game and ...

We're living in the new golden age of 2D beat-'em-ups—but the best one released this year had one foot in a different genre entirely

The core problem of the beat-'em-up genre in 2025 is content. They're games designed to be beatable in two or three hours.

I played more than 20 metroidvanias this year other than Silksong, and these are the ones doing the most creative/experimental things with the genre

While every genre saw a whole range of gems landing this year, fans of exploration-heavy platformers were positively feasting ...