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God, that was a weird one, huh? As a rule, gaming took fewer hits from 2020 than most other aspects of the entertainment industry—a few delays here, the occasional massive, discourse-destroying trainwreck there—but overall, pretty smooth sailing. As such, our annual list of the year’s most interesting games takes two fairly divergent paths: Those games that gave us comfort and connection in this most bizarrely hermetic of years, and those that pushed the boundaries to provide something fa...

Fisti-Fluffs trailer. Very Very Valet, which comes to Switch in early 2021 as a timed exclusive, joins an ever-increasing roster of ordinary-jobs-turned-party-game, this one inviting up to four friends to work together in order to pick up, park, and return cars in over 20 locations. Very Very Valet trailer. Tunche - coming "first on Switch" in March next year - is a hand-drawn hack-and-slash-style game with rogue-like elements that unfolds in a world inspired by the Amazon rainforest. It sees p...

Animal Crossing: New Horizons and  Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, it hasn’t turned its eye on indie games coming to the Switch. With the end of the year in sight, Nintendo has given us a peek at what to expect from its indie game lineup heading into 2021, including a mix of indie game favorites alongside some new reveals and surprises. As revealed earlier in the week, Nintendo officially aired its latest (and likely final) Indie World Showcase for 2020, giving us a closer look at the indi...

Cave story. Updated on 15 December 2020 Developer Derek Yus much-loved subterranean platform rogue-like Spelunky - and its critically acclaimed sequel - are finally heading to Switch, with a launch window of "summer" 2021. Theres been a rising clamour for both games on Switch for quite some time, of course; partly because the brisk replay loop inherent in rogue-likes is particularly well-suited to portable play, but mostly, simply, because Spelunky 1 and 2 ...

Spelunky & Spelunky 2 Coming to Nintendo Switch in Summer 2021 Spelunky and Spelunky 2 are coming to Nintendo Switch next year. Mossmouth and Blitworks revealed the ports during today’s December Nintendo Indie World Showcase presentation, saying that both games will come to Switch in summer 2021. Though Spelunky shook the indie scene when it launched for Xbox 360 around a decade ago, its sequel arrived in only September of this year. See the reveal trailer below. Stock up on ropes and get r...

Filed to:nintendo indie direct Screenshot: Nintendo To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Kotaku Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. Nintendo aired a brief livestream today dedicated to indie games coming to Switch in the next few months, and there are a lot of them. The biggest news in the 15 minute presentation was that popula...

The synopsis: For Mac gamers in the 90s, the people of Ambrosia Software were rockstars. Heroes. And with brilliant games like Maelstrom, Escape Velocity, Harry the Handsome Executive, Apeiron, and more, plus a company newsletter that spoke directly to the fans, they could do no wrong. In light of Ambrosias recent closure (finally!), Secret History of Mac Gaming author Richard Moss recounts the studios high and lowpoints and tells the stories behind its best games. Thanks as always to my suppor...