The best platformer games are those that manage to challenge the player while still telling a compelling story. Platformers of this quality can be found in all sorts of interesting niches and ...

Dark Souls. Bloodborne. Sekiro. What do all of these ridiculously difficult throw-your-controller-at-the TV-screen games have in common? They’ve got NOTHING on old-school platformers. Were they video ...

Hollow Knight: Silksong is quite the beautiful game, its music is equally gorgeous, and it tells a riveting story of a tragic kingdom corrupted by power. However, none of that would make it one of the ...

Joshua Speer is a Staff Writer at DualShockers who has been covering games professionally since 2013, with a focus on indie games, retro games, platformers, deckbuilders, roguelikes, and Nintendo ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

D or no, the Nintendo 3DS featured a bunch of fantastic platformers that made it a wonderful handheld for fans of the genre.

The SNES was home to so many great RPGs, it's a shame there aren't more of them on Nintendo Switch Online. But we do have ...

When it launched in 1985, the Nintendo Entertainment System did so with a platformer. People are still making platformers for the NES, so there’s no denying how effective the console’s hardware is at ...

Hop, blast, and grind your way through these PS5 platformers that are so good and addictive that they've earned the title of masterpiece. From typical mascot platformers like Astro Bot to more ...