Simulation games have always been kind of off-putting to me ever since I begged my parents to buy me Sim Ant from one of those Scholastic Book Fairs at my school back in fourth grade. I played about ten minutes of Sim Ant. Sim Ant is a bad game.

Why simulate an ant when you can simulate a creep with a camera? Enter Do Not Feed the Monkeys, the self-dubbed "digital voyeur simulator" from Fictiorama...

Pikmin is one of those series that probably wouldn't still exist under a different banner. It's one of Shigeru Miyamoto's babies, an idea he fostered by playing in the wilderness as a child. One he's going to see through until the end.

I didn't love it as much as Miyamoto -- that is until Pikmin 3. After years of casually playing the series I finally "got" it after a few multiplayer sessions with...

Japanese magazine Famitsu has shared some sales figures for Nintendo paint-em-up Splatoon 2, and it has been a great debut week for the colour-drenched sequel.

Within just the first three days of release, the game shifted 670,955 units in Japan. Not only does that beat the debut of the original Splatoon by several hundred thousand copies, but it's one third of the lifelongJapanese sales of the...