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The Bazaar is an upcoming free-to-play auto battler with a delightful board game-like interface. Pick from one of six heroes, each with a unique ability. Each round, you’ll shop for items or weapons to arm yourself. Then pick an NPC enemy to beat for gold and XP. Finally, you’ll go up against the loadout of another player who played that round.

Get your brick on every morning with some delicious Tetrimino-shaped waffles. This official Tetris waffle maker cranks out seven interlocking puzzle pieces, encouraging you to play with your food and stack your blocks at the breakfast table. Earn bonus points for adding food coloring to the individual waffles.

Dead Cells was the gift that kept on giving. And now, with the release of its board game, you and up to three other players can enjoy the game’s infinite replayability in a new format. The roguelite board game lets you journey through the four original biomes with hundreds of weapons, mutations, and skills to unlock.

Mario thought he was in another castle, but it turns out that Bowser has set up shop in the Overlook Hotel. Filmmaker Mark Cannataro created this amusing CG short featuring our favorite plumber trapped in a Stanley Kubrick movie. Things could have gone much worse in that bathroom scene, but this clip is rated PG.

Raw Fury Games looks like they hit the jackpot with an unlikely combo. Ballionaire combines roguelites with an equally addictive game: pachinko. Create your own machine with a crazy arsenal of triggers, balls, upgrades, and stages of all sizes and shapes. Profit off the chaos while admiring the cartoonish occult aesthetic of the world’s first “autobonker”.

GiiKER’s interactive puzzle game combines the digital and tactile worlds by displaying a puzzle arrangement on its LED screen, then asking you to solve it by sliding the pieces into the proper positions. It comes loaded with more than 500 challenges. Great for kids and adults and an excellent alternative to playing on phones.

Metal Slug Tactics brings the arcade shooter’s eye-popping pixel art and over-the-top action to a more manageable yet no less chaotic form. The game features a turn-based battle system with roguelite elements. It features 110 handcrafted maps, 36 weapons, and nine characters with different skill trees. Drops 11.5.24 on Steam and all major consoles.

This teensy replica of the Atari 2600 comes with a miniature TV cabinet. It’s small enough to fit in the palm of your hand and is loaded with nine 8-bit video games, including Asteroids, Breakout, Centipede, Combat, Millipede, Missile Command, Pong Tempest, Warlords, and Pac-Man. They’re actually better than the original 2600 versions.

There are many multi-platform game controllers, but what makes the GameSir Tarantula Pro different is that its button layout can be swapped on the fly. A motorized wheel rotates the positions of its ABXY buttons. It has high-precision analog sticks, a D-pad, nine programmable buttons, a 6-axis gyro sensor, rumble motors, and separate racing + FPS trigger modes.

“…even the right leads can lead to the wrong place.” Calligram’s Phoenix Springs is a surreal and minimalist point-and-click mystery game. Set in a capitalist dystopia, you play as a stoic reporter looking for her younger brother. Its eerie vibe and pinboard-style inventory system are presented in a beautiful graphic novel aesthetic.

77-Bit is a browser-based MMORPG that drops players into a neon-lit cyberpunk world to take down an AI invasion. The launch trailer kicks things off with some slick anime cinematics but eventually shows off some gameplay in the isomorphic world of Bit City. One unique aspect of the game is that its characters are owned and licensed by the community.

The GB Operator is a tiny USB-C device that lets you play and manage Game Boy cartridges. It works with Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance games. You can play your games on any computer platform using mGBA or any compatible emulator, and back up and restore saves. It even has a detector for counterfeit cartridges.

Enjoy the fun of a real claw machine in your home. Arcade1Up’s claw machine works just like the real deal, but won’t burn through quarters. It has a light-up marquee and control button, an arcade joystick, and plays sounds. Choose from easy, medium, and scam modes. It measures 61.25″ H x 22.5″ W x 22″ D. Pre-orders start shipping 11.5.24.

It’s been a decade since the last mainline Metal Gear Solid game, and we’re probably never getting a new one. But it looks like Konami is done with lazy cash grabs. Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is an upcoming remake of MGS 3 that seeks to overhaul the graphics and make the controls smoother without touching the over-the-top spy vibe and story.

The sequel to the hit samurai action game Ghost of Tsushima features breathtaking vistas that flex the power of the PS5. Set more than 300 years after the events of the first game, Ghost of Yōtei not only has a new setting and protagonist. It also appears to have more open-world exploration and more interactions with animals. Drops 2025.

If you had those bootleg 100-in-1 cartridges as a kid, UFO 50 is an idea that makes far too much sense to be true. Except it is. Created by the developers behind Spelunky, Downwell, Air Land & Sea, Skorpulac, Catacomb Kids, and Madhouse, this collection of 50 8-bit style games has it all, from platformers to full on RPGs. Half of them have versus or co-op modes.