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Ubisoft has given a brief update on its missing in action Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake, which has had a troubled development and still lacks a formal release date.

HandyGames will release SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake for iOS via App Store and Android via Google Play on December 12 for $9.99 / £8.49 / €9.99, the publisher announced. It is described as a “direct high-quality port from the PC and console version.”

Cooperative platformer River Tails: Stronger Together will leave Early Access and launch for PC via Steam on December 14, publisher Gravity Game Arise and developer Kid Onion Studio announced. Console versions will follow at a later date.

I watched a few hours of Worldless being played last night and didn't really register that it was turn-based. That's because it's a Metroidvania platformer and, when it is time for back-and-forth combat, you're not choosing attacks from a menu. Instead you're stringing together combos in real-time, then when your alotted attack time is over, you're parrying enemy assaults with rhythmic flair.

Publisher SEGA and developer HARDlight have released the opening animation for Sonic the Hedgehog 3D action platformer Sonic Dream Team.

WASD to move, mouse cursor to look, space to jump, C to crouch and slide. There, now you know everything you need to play the demo for Blessed Burden, a new first-person "horror adventure" from Podoba Interactive, in which you are "the last surviving priest in a religious apocalypse". I don't know many people in the clergy, but I'm pretty sure the job isn't supposed to involve quite this many swinging blade traps. Here's a trailer.

An ambitious-sounding follow-up to The Simpsons: Hit & Run was set to include airships.

A Felix the Cat collection has popped up on the ESRB website.

If you feel sorely in need of a ray of sunshine, you enjoy same-screen multiplayer games such as Towerfall, and you’re unfussed about murdering slimes, consider Bopl Battle. Out today, it’s a jolly 2D arena brawler in which each player is a smiling ball of gloop, equipped with pre-selected special abilities that cover an amusing range.

Puzzle platformer The Gecko Gods will launch for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Switch, and PC via Steam in spring 2024, publisher Super Rare Originals and developer Inresin announced.

If you’ve been enjoying Jusant, Don’t Nod’s post-apocalyptic climbing sim, you might also like the alpha playtest for Chasing The Unseen, which has just been updated with a new level. It doesn’t have Jusant’s quietly innovative grip and abseiling mechanics – the climbing is closer to Shadow Of The Colossus, consisting of just one button you hold to cling on till your stamina runs out. Nor does it have the Don’t Nod game's beautifully nested chunks of backstory - no seashells you can press your ear to, alas. But it does have massive flying cephalopods, giant red mushrooms, and floating, fractured landscapes of rock and grass.

Jurassic Park is cracking open the amber of some of the 8 and 16-bit console games based on the dinosaur movie franchise, bringing its NES, SNES, Game Boy and Genesis outings to PC next week. Fingers crossed, the anniversary return of the series’ earlier video games might lead to some of its overlooked adaptations getting their chance in the spotlight. In other words: when will Trespasser finally get the respect it deserves?

Nintendo will hold its next Indie World showcase event tomorrow, Tuesday 14th November at 5pm UK time.

I Wanna Be The Guy was a freeware platformer that pastiched classic Nintendo games and required pixel-perfect jumps and a lot of trial and error to overcome its umpteen unpredictable, unfair deaths. Naturally it became an internet sensation all the way back in 2007, bolstered further by the release of the source code in 2011 and a tidal wave of fangames that followed.

The Switch version of side-scrolling platformer Trip World DX will launch on November 30 for 2,800 yen, SUNSOFT announced.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder has sold 4.3m copies worldwide.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder sold through 4.3 million units two weeks after release, making it the fastest-selling Super Mario-related title (limited to titles released for Wii and DS onwards, when software sell-through data collection began), Nintendo announced in its second quarter financial results presentation for the fiscal year ending March 2024.

Medieval multiplayer clangfest Chivalry 2 gets a free Reclamation update today, the cherry on the cake of which - knob on the coronet? Prong on the portculis? Ah wait, jewel in the crown! - is new 64-player map The Reclamation of Montcrux, in which the rampaging Agathians attempt to overrun a fort held by the Tenosians, pitting petard against bombard, battering ram against ballista.

Inevitable Studios, an independent developer founded by veteran game developer Cord Smith, has announced Always in Mind, a narrative-based action platformer coming to PC via Steam. A release date was not announced.

Retro Studios was once working on a Portal-esque first-person puzzle game called Adept for the GameCube.

Devolver have released a Let's Play for robo-philosophical puzzler The Talos Principle 2 in which the Let's Player is GLaDOS, nemesis of Valve's Portal games, with which The Talos Principle has a few things in common. They've brought on original Portal voice actress Ellen McClain to narrate the footage, and the result is genuinely quite funny. As you'd expect, GlaDOS isn't that impressed by Croteam's work. I score this a 7/10 on the Hoot And/Or Holler scale.

Sega has had its best financial performance for a decade, reporting total net sales this year of ¥389.6bn.

SEGA has announced Sonic Dream Team, a 3D action platformer coming to Apple Arcade on December 5.

Astrolabe Games will publish Unicellular Games-developed 2.5D side-scrolling precision platformer Fall Up, the companies announced. It will launch for PC via Steam. A release date was not announced.

A demo for side-scrolling action platformer Ghost Knight: A Dark Tale is now available for PC via Steam, developer Grimware Games announced.

Publisher Team17 and developer The Game Kitchen will release PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of Blasphemous II on November 2, the companies announced.

SANABI will leave Early Access and launch for Switch and PC via Steam on November 9, publisher Neowiz and developer Wonder Potion announced.

Los Angeles-based voice actor Kevin Afghani is the new voice of Mario and Luigi in Super Mario Bros. Wonder, he announced on Twitter.

Western-inspired “motorvania” game Laika: Aged Through Blood will launch for PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG on October 19, publisher Headup Games and developer Brainwash Gang announced. The PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch versions will follow at a later date.

2.5D platformer / first-person puzzle game American Arcadia will launch for PC via Steam on November 15, publisher Raw Fury and developer Out of the Blue announced.

Los Angeles-based solo developer Six Foot Giraffe has announced GREENFIELD, a story-driven puzzle platformer coming to PC and Mac via Steam. A release date was not announced.

Lunar Ray Games has announced side-scrolling action platformer Timespinner 2: Unwoven Dream for PC (Steam) and consoles to be announced. A release date was not announced.

Publisher Rogue Games and developer Plot Twist have announced side-scrolling action adventure platformer The Last Case of Benedict Fox: Definitive Edition for PlayStation 5. A release date was not announced.

Nintendo has released a six-minute overview trailer for Super Mario Bros. Wonder.

Publisher HIKE and developer Eallin Japan will release side-scrolling action platformer Coneru: Dimension Girl for PC via Steam in April 2024, the companies announced.

Publisher Playtonic Friends and developer MegaWobble will release Lil Gator Game for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on October 10, the companies announced. Wishlisting is now available via PlayStation Store and Microsoft Store.

Rhythm platformer BIT.TRIP RERUNNER will launch for PC via Steam on September 19, developer Choice Provisions announced. It will be regularly priced at $19.99, but can be purchased at a 20 percent-off launch discount price of $15.99 until September 26.

D-Pad Studio has delayed the PC version of Savant: Ascent REMIX from its previously planned September 15 release date to September 29. It will be available via Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG, and Humble Store. PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, iOS, and Android versions are due out at a later date.

Physics-based platformer Super Adventure Hand! for Switch and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store on September 21, developer DevM Games announced. A demo is available now across all platforms.

Publisher Annapurna Interactive and developer Heart Machine will release Solar Ash for Xbox Series, Xbox One, and Switch on September 14, the companies announced. It will also be available via Xbox Game Pass.

Publisher Playtonic Friends and developer MegaWobble will release Lil Gator Game for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on September 26. Wishlisting is now available via PlayStation Store and Microsoft Store.

Side-scrolling platformer Trip World DX will launch for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Switch, and PC via Steam in September, SUNSOFT announced.

Nintendo has released new information, footage, and screenshots of Super Mario Bros. Wonder as part of today’s Super Mario Bros. Wonder Direct, introducing new gameplay, new power-ups, Wonder effects, and more.

TY the Tasmanian Tiger 4: Bush Rescue Returns will launch for Switch via Nintendo eShop on September 26, developer Krome Studios announced. It will be priced at $19.99, but users who pre-order can get it at a 25 percent-off discount price of $14.99.

Nintendo will host a 15-minute Super Mario Bros. Wonder Direct on August 31 at 7:00 a.m. PT / 10:00 a.m. ET / 23:00 JST, the company announced. You will be able to watch it on YouTube (North America, Europe, Japan) and Nintendo.com (North America, Europe, Japan).

Publisher Headup Games and developer Sunny Peak have announced side-scrolling platformer Symphonia for console and PC (Steam). Specific console platforms were not announced. It will launch in early 2024.

Humble Games will publish Giddy Goat Games-developed musical 3D platformer Billie Bust Up for PC via Steam, the company announced. A release date was not announced. It will be playable at Gamescom 2023, which will run from August 23 to 27 at Koelnmesse in Cologne, Germany.

3D platformer Boti: Byteland Overclocked will launch for PC via Steam on September 15, followed by unspecific consoles in 2024, publisher Untold Tales and developer Purple Ray Studio announced.

“Dark and twisted fairytale” puzzle platformer Ugly will launch for Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store on September 14, publisher Graffiti Games and developer Team Ugly announced. The Xbox One version is newly announced.

The final Early Access update for SANABI is now available, and a full launch is planned across Switch and PC via Steam in November, publisher Neowiz and developer Wonder Potion announced.

The PlayStation 5 and Switch versions of side-scrolling action platformer Elypse will launch on August 2 for $19.99 / €19.99, publisher PID Games and developer Hot Chili Games announced.