Starsand Island 1.0 Adds Multiplayer for Handheld Farmers
Starsand Island was the breakout anime life sim of Steam Next Fest, an unabashed Stardew Valley homage with a tropical setting. Tomorrow's 1.0 update…
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Pokopia Trick Unlocks Limited Pokémon Without Time Travel
Pokopia's staggered event schedule is a strange fit for a console you can throw in a bag. Each limited-time Pokémon window demands you be there on a…
No Man's Sky's 3-Year Redemption Arc Pays Off for Handhelds
Three years of every reply "laced with slightly mean things," as Sean Murray remembers it. Every No Man's Sky update in the first years of its life…
Tomodachi Life Still Rules Switch eShop as LotR Debuts
Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream has moved past “chart-topper” and into “permanent resident” territory. The August 15 Switch eShop rankings still…
Pokemon Pokopia Hits 5M on Switch 2: Life Sims Win Handheld
Pokemon Pokopia has passed 5 million players in four months, and the number that matters isn't the total — it's the ratio. One in five Switch 2…
hololive Dreams Now Runs on Steam Deck Thanks to dwproton
hololive Dreams has been a sour note on Steam Deck since launch — a ProtonDB Bronze badge, a stack of "won't launch" reports, and no sign of a fix…
Pokopia's Expansion Pass Is Off to a Great Start With Bubbly Basin
Pokemon Pokopia's first expansion wave arrives with a thesis: underwater building was never a novelty, it was a missing verb. Bubbly Basin, the debut…
Tomodachi Life Keeps Crushing Switch eShop - Kynseed Makes a Move
Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream isn't just winning the Switch eShop this week — it's lapping the field. The August 8 chart puts Nintendo's life sim…
Parkasaurus Dinoluxe Brings Dino Tycoon Chaos to Switch 2
Parkasaurus has finally escaped PC and stomped onto Nintendo Switch 2, and it's bringing the whole menagerie with it. The Dinoluxe Edition bundles…
Iron Nest on Deck: A Heavy Turret Sim That Gets Controllers
Open-world scale has become the default measuring stick for handheld performance, yet Iron Nest: Heavy Turret Simulator makes a quiet case for the…
Pokopia's Manaphy Skips Habitat Building — Here's How to Recruit It
A washed-up Manaphy is the kind of hook that makes Bubbly Basin feel like a secret instead of a checklist. The Mythical Pokémon appears on an island…
Pokopia's 3-Person Prototype Explains Why It Works on the Go
Game Freak opened the vault this week and showed the three-person prototype that became Pokemon Pokopia — and, alongside early sketches and a peek at…