The platformer genre is as popular as ever despite facing stiff competition from dozens of other games. From 2D sidescrollers to 3D exploration extravaganzas, both kinds have their own niche. Over the ...

The platform genre with a special focus on action and side-scrolling is experiencing a second youth on all kinds of systems. If applied correctly, it is a formula that never fails and that guarantees ...

Super Mario’s 40 year history is a testament to all the different ways you can make a little guy run from left to right across a screen. Nintendo’s line of 2D Mario platformers has gone through three ...

In The Mind Twisting Quadroids, players will assist an evil robotic overlord known as Roboctopus in fulfilling its destiny as supreme ruler of the cosmos. Guide Roboctopus' army of Quadroid bots over ...

Indie game developer Sinclair Strange and publisher Scarlet Moon Games unveiled their latest title, as we're getting a new platformer called Sir Noggin. The game is designed to pay homage to the ...

Rayman Legends is one of the greatest 2D platform games ever released, and an essential Steam sale pick-up if you've never played one of Ubisoft's best. It's been free on and off over the years, but ...

Review - As a puzzle-platformer, Sintropia Fruits Together is a mid-tier fruit. A pear, maybe. But it could have been a ...

Charming Holiday is a news article writer from the United States. He is a former cultural policy advisor who has turned his focus to his lifelong passion of gaming. He lived and worked in South Korea ...

Often considered as reflecting his designer's somewhat eccentric personality, Rayman is a 2D cartoon-style character deprived ...