Sydney, Australia, March 19th, 2026: Get ready to beam up, paint over, and dive deep: THQ Nordic is thrilled to announce that Destroy All Humans!, Destroy All Humans! 2 – Reprobed, Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed, and SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide will release on Nintendo platforms later this year!

Destroy All Humans!

Release: Nintendo Switch 2 – June 23, 2026

Crypto is back and humanity is still very much in trouble. Already wreaking havoc on Nintendo Switch, the cult-classic alien invasion lands on Nintendo Switch 2 later this year with richer visuals, denser worlds, improved shaders, and support for full HD up to 1440p resolution. Unleash chaos with powerful psychic abilities, outrageous weaponry, and a sharp sense of humour. Invade Earth, harvest DNA, and remind the human race exactly who’s in charge. Includes the Skin Pack DLC!

Destroy All Humans! 2 – Reprobed

Release: Nintendo Switch 2 – September 15, 2026

Destroy All Humans! 2 – Reprobed releases on Nintendo Switch 2 in September, packed with the Reprobed: Skin Pack and Reprobed: Challenge Accepted DLC. Experience the swinging 60s in full alien glory in a single-player adventure, tailor-made for the platform. Defend a much larger, more open world from those who seek to undermine your mission. Travel the globe, wreak havoc and take revenge on the KGB in this expanded sequel full of destruction, disguises, and hippie-era absurdity.

Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed

Release: Nintendo Switch 2 – October 6, 2026

Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed brings the magic of Disney to life in a vibrant 3D platformer. This beautiful remake sends Mickey Mouse on an epic journey through Wasteland, a realm of forgotten Disney characters. Armed with a magical brush using paint and thinner, players shape both the world around them and Mickey’s destiny. Restore beauty or uncover hidden secrets. On Nintendo Switch 2, the adventure shines brighter than ever with: Higher resolution visuals, improved framerate, mouse-style controls using the Joy Con 2 controller and includes the Costume Pack DLC.

SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide

Release: Nintendo Switch – October 13, 2026

A clash between the Flying Dutchman and King Neptune has unleashed ghostly chaos across the ocean floor and it’s up to SpongeBob and Patrick to fix it. Switch seamlessly between the two heroes and combine their unique abilities to overcome challenges and restore balance to Bikini Bottom. Play as SpongeBob and Patrick, master new abilities like grappling and burrowing and experience a brand new ghostly story. The game is fully voiced by the original cast!

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About THQ Nordic

Founded in 2011, THQ Nordic is a global video game publisher and developer. Based in Vienna (Austria), and with subsidiaries all around the globe, THQ Nordic brands include Darksiders, MX vs. ATV, Destroy All Humans, Wreckfest, Titan Quest, Biomutant, Gothic, ELEX, Kingdoms of Amalur and many more.

Fresh from the weird, wonderful minds at Doinksoft – creators of Gato Roboto, Gunbrella, and Demon Throttle – comes Dark Scrolls, a pixel-perfect dungeon scroller that enthusiastically fuses challenging shmup-like chaos with compelling roguelike progression.
 
Set forth on your quest to [INSERT GOAL HERE] with one of the worthy yet quirky heroes in solo or cooperative play, local and online. Hack, slash, and dodge through hordes of enemies and deadly traps in procedurally generated runs of hand-crafted rooms and levels using each hero’s unique attacks and abilities to your advantage.

Sharp reflexes and split-second decisions are crucial to survival as the intensity ratchets up as each run delivers new surprises, branching paths, and unrelenting bosses to conquer. Gobble up coins to spend at Bruce & Goose’s Shoppe as you take a breath from the action to gain new perks, devastating attacks and summoned allies. Stack them right, and you’ll unleash screen-filling destruction of arcade legend.
 
“Whenever I search for ‘roguelike’ I don’t find what I’m looking for,” says Doinksoft’s Cullen Dwyer. “I get a poker game or a pachinko game or a heartfelt narrative about a Greek god or a Yu-Gi-Oh! card game. How are those at all like a 1980s turn-based, grid-locked dungeon crawler that you can play in the command line with vim control bindings? They have ‘randomness’? Pathetic. And here I am, part of the problem. Might as well call it a Metroidvania too.”
 
FEATURES

• Choose from a cast of 9 playable characters and hurl axes, fling arrows, toss knives, and even flip steaks at a rogues’ gallery of bizarre enemies
• Each character, whether it’s a burly berserker or a saxophone-playing rat, has unique skills, side objectives, and customizable trinkets to experiment with
• Play solo or invite a pal aboard to help. Dark Scrolls supports both local and online co-op and collaborating players can strategise and revive each other mid-level
• Super authentic old school visuals, SFX, and music. Looks and sounds like classic games of yore, but with the sparkle of modern controls and design
• Procedurally generated levels stitched together from hand-crafted rooms. Every run offers new surprises, branching paths, and skill-testing bosses

Whether you’re playing alone or adventuring with a buddy, Dark Scrolls is packed with charm, challenge, and secrets. Hack, slash, and dodge your way through hordes of enemies and deadly traps as the level nudges you ever forward. Will you survive?

Find out when Dark Scrolls launches on PC and Nintendo Switch later this year.

Check out www.darkscrolls.com for more info.

Triple-i Vibes

Bordeaux, FRANCE (March 18, 2026) – Acclaimed developer and appreciator of independent games Evil Empire (Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse, The Rogue Prince of Persia, Brotato), is bringing back its bangers-only, no nonsense games showcase to fans around the world on April 9 for 45 minutes of back-to-back trailers. Viewers can catch gameplay reveals, world premieres and other announcements across 40+ games, including games they already know, love and have sunk countless hours into, and future titles that will claim even more of their time.

Watch today’s announcement trailer for the Triple-i Initiative Showcase here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AsSAM2EWKw

Over the last two years, the Triple-i Initiative Showcase brought you updates and reveals for games like Katana ZERO, No, I’m not a Human, Vampire Survivors and Slay the Spire 2, and to reflect the ever-growing indie games industry across the world, this year’s show will bring even more exciting announcements. That means eight exclusive world premieres, as well as partners like Klei Entertainment, TinyBuild and Devolver Digital making appearances to bring you, dear fan of games that are impactful, engaging and memorable, all the exciting updates on titles you are already looking forward to, such as Windrose, Dead as Disco, Risk of Rain 2, Alkahest and Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse, and some others that are begging to be discovered. With a focus squarely on bringing the latest from all-star triple-i teams, you come to this showcase for video games and you will not leave without video games.

Viewers can watch the 45 minute-long show on YouTube, Twitch, bilibili and Steam, as well as with co-streaming partner IGN and a number of the very best content creators. Be sure to stick around after the show too – we know that just 45 minutes isn’t always enough, so viewers can get an extra jolt of triple-i goodness with post-show deep dives of some featured titles from the showcase. 

The Triple-i Initiative showcase is run by developers for developers. Now in its third year, the not-for-profit initiative has seen year over year growth in the industry’s top global markets, its success attributed to an approach centered on content curated to a specific audience. Focused on engagement and conversation on a global level, the all killer, no filler showcase has no unengaging fluff, no ads, no sponsors, no hosts. Evil Empire’s no-b.s. approach in 2024 and 2025 achieved high visibility for today’s best creative teams and 2026 is shaping up to be its biggest, best show to date. 

For more information on the Triple-i Initiative Showcase visit https://iii-initiative.com/, and be sure to keep an eye out for updates on who will be participating in the show this year.

United States] – March 18, 2026 – Containment has failed, and the nightmare is only getting worse. HST Game Studios and indie.io are proud to announce that the second chapter of the immersive survival horror, SCP: Fragmented Minds, will arrive on Steam on April 3. Building on the success of the initial release, Chapter 02 pushes players deeper into the fractured facility, greatly expanding core systems and new SCP entities that test both nerve and survival instincts, while the twists and turns of the growing story further develop the iconic SCP universe.

The first chapter introduced players to the most secure facility in the SCP Foundation’s arsenal, Site-113. Located on Mars, it was supposed to usher in a new era of research and development in the safety of the Red Planet. In the end, this ambitious endeavor failed, and the horrors meant to be studied, examined, and harnessed escaped into the facility. Trapped between the harsh Martian conditions, the deteriorating facility, and reality-bending entities, Foundation staff was forced into a desperate fight for their survival, if not their very existence. 

Players already experienced the first chapter of the storyline, waking up at Site-113 amid the carnage of malleable reality. They fought the escaped SCPs, cleverly utilizing the base’s environment and the available resources to their advantage, while dealing with the survivors, who have their own agendas and goals, even as the world around them unravels.

Chapter 02 pushes the narrative further, introducing new layers of complexity to the story with new audio logs and refined environmental storytelling, the highly anticipated SCP-049 quest arc, and a new guide character to help ease newcomers into the vast lore of the collaborative universe. 

The expanded narrative is woven throughout fifteen new areas, most notably the facility’s North Wing, which dynamically changes in reaction to the players’ progress through the game and the decisions they make. The Forest, a developer favorite, is the other standout location, serving as the backdrop for a series of encounters with a highly requested SCP that is sure to challenge the players’ brains, together with a series of major gameplay additions.

The most important of these is the Wrist Device, which allows for rapid vertical movement and traversal, adding new ways to navigate through the crumbling Martian environments and deal with existing and new SCP threats. It is joined by Reality Anchors, which stabilize the fabric of existence and can rapidly alter gameplay and the players’ abilities for better and worse, and a reworked equipment and skill system allowing players to further customize their characters’ abilities through upgrades and crafting. Finally, the dynamic infection system adds additional tension and challenges players in new ways.

Are you ready to face the unspeakable, reality-warping horrors that the SCP Foundation failed to contain? Chapter 02 of SCP: Fragmented Minds will be available as a free update on April 3, 2026.  Chapter 01 is currently available on Steam and the indie.io store. 

Play the full game now at discounted prices on all major platforms 

Walnut Creek, California — March 18, 2026 | Maximum Entertainment today announced that Overthrown has officially launched into version 1.0. The game has now exited Early Access and fully released on PC via Steam and Xbox Series X, and launched for the first time on Xbox Series S and PlayStation 5. The 1.0 release debuts alongside the game’s most ambitious content drop yet: the Airship Update.

In Overthrown, players rule as a monarch wielding an ancient soul-stealing crown with powerful magical abilities. Set in a hostile wilderness, the game challenges players to build, defend, and expand a kingdom while fending off bandits, mutants, and increasingly complex threats, alone or with friends in up to six-player co-op.

The Airship Update dramatically expands Overthrown’s scope by taking the chaos to the skies. Players can construct and command their own airships, sending them to assault outlaw camps from above. However, airships come at a cost, requiring significant mana upkeep to operate, forcing players to balance power with sustainability. Outlaws are not defenseless either, fielding airships of their own and turning aerial dominance into a high-stakes strategic arms race.

To counter these airborne threats, the update introduces the Cannon Tower, a new defensive structure designed for direct fire against both airships and ground troops. Unlike existing indirect siege options, cannon towers provide precise, reactive defense and are available to both players and outlaws alike.

Outlaw activity escalates significantly in the Airship Update. Camps grow larger and more complex, featuring new structures and three dangerous new enemy types:

• Scrappers, support units that stay behind the front lines to repair and rebuild damaged defenses
• Ringleaders, heavily armored elite enemies limited to one per camp
• Firestarters, stealthy saboteurs that infiltrate settlements at night to ignite fires before disappearing

The update also introduces a terrifying new creature: the Devourer. If left unchecked, Snappers can evolve over time into these massive beasts, capable of consuming entire buildings and even ships.

Rounding out the update are three new levels, each focused on distinct ecosystems, including the high-elevation Highland Plateau, designed to highlight verticality, aerial combat, and environmental strategy.

Overthrown is available now on Xbox Game Pass, at 40% off on PC via Steam and Xbox Series X|S, and 25% off on PlayStation 5.

Play today: www.playoverthrown.com.

About Maximum Entertainment

Maximum Entertainment is a global entertainment company dedicated to crafting indie to AA video game experiences through original content and licensed partnerships. A fully integrated group with a broad portfolio of content, the company emphasizes collaboration and inclusivity in its partnerships to produce the highest level of interactive entertainment. With more than 300 titles in its catalog, Maximum Entertainment has joined forces with talented creators and renowned franchises around the globe to deliver magic to the gamer in everyone. Maximum Entertainment employs experienced professionals across the entire value chain of video games including development, publishing, transmedia, sales, and operations. Visit Maximum Entertainment at www.maximument.com.

About Brimstone

Brimstone is a fully remote, international indie team founded in Sweden and spread across more than ten different countries throughout Europe, Asia, and Australia. As a studio we focus on creating chaotic and innovative sandbox games. For more info visit www.brimstone.games.

The Kickstarter for Darkhaven, a new ARPG from Diablo veterans Philip Shenk, Peter Hu, and Erich Schaefer is entering the final stretch, with 60-hours left for ARPG fans to help the game hit its $500k funding target. Darkhaven has showcased the potential in its fully dynamic world where everything is deformable and buildable with an unfiltered demo that ended the recent Steam Next Fest as one of the top 20 most-played demos.

Moon Beast Productions have added new rewards to the Kickstarter since its launch, including the new “design your own legendary item” reward – fans can check out Peter and Erich diving into that, among other things, in this recent conversation.

Darkhaven is a dark fantasy isometric ARPG set in the aftermath of a great and final collapse of civilization. Ancient empires have fallen, their ruins reclaimed by wilderness, monsters, and predatory supernatural forces. Players are heirs to a legacy of power that is the last hope for this dying world. As eldritch evil worms its way into the world to feed on its remains, it falls to these few to bring the land back from the brink of death.

Designed for solo play, cooperative adventures, and high-stakes PvP-enabled realms, Darkhaven is set in a procedurally generated, fully dynamic, and persistent world. Terrain and structures are deformable and buildable, allowing players to dig through earth, tunnel through dungeon walls, drain lakes to uncover buried ruins, redirect lava flows to reshape battlefields, or rebuild shattered fortresses. Seasons change, weather alters combat and traversal, and world-altering events leave permanent scars. Every action contributes to a shared, evolving history.

The demo available now on Steam offers several hours of open-ended ARPG gameplay inside a persistent sandbox world. Players can progress the Witch class to level 8, experimenting across three skill trees focused on mobility, positioning, and resource management. Closer to a pre-alpha than a highly polished, bite-sized teaser, Moon Beast have decided not to water down their ambition with a narrow vertical slice, instead allowing players to experience the full, unfiltered version of what they are building as they seek players’ support to realise their vision on Kickstarter.

About Moon Beast Productions
Moon Beast Productions is an independent games developer founded by industry veterans Philip Shenk, Peter Hu, and Erich Schaefer. They have offices in San Francisco, CA, and Austin, TX. Founded in 2021, Moon Beast Productions focuses on innovation in ARPG games.

Ride a legendary birdlike companion in Coatsink’s new VR title coming to Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest 3, Meta Quest 3s & Meta Quest Pro

Gateshead, United Kingdom – March 18th, 2026 – As the studio celebrates its 15th anniversary, Coatsink is pleased to mark the occasion with the announcement that Skytail will be coming to Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest 3, Meta Quest 3s and Meta Quest Pro on March 26th. The studio brings its 15 years of experience working on titles like Men In Black: Most Wanted, Jurassic World: Aftermath, Transformers Battlegrounds, Phogs, Gang Beasts and many more to this new title. 

In Skytail, you take to the skies on the back of a legendary birdlike companion and use telekinetic powers to defeat the beasts trying to hinder you and your friend’s rescue mission.  Living among the clouds with your birdlike buddy, your idyllic life is shattered when corrupted fiends steal your Skytail’s offspring. Together, you must set off on an adventure to save them. It’s time to harness the telekinetic powers of the ancients to defend yourself and bring the youngsters home safely.

You wield a wide range of telekinetic abilities using elegant gesture controls. Crush foes, tear them apart, or charge them up and hurl them at their comrades for devastating impact. Defend yourself from incoming projectiles, charge up your special ability and be sure to read the situation quickly in an experience where it’s not only fun to play with your roster of powers, but a necessity to take out the foes that face you and stay alive. 

“We are delighted to reveal that Skytail is coming to Meta Quest platforms on March 26th with a new trailer that gives everyone their first good look at what’s waiting for them,” said Coatsink CEO, Richard Snowdon. “We’ve created a charming world for players to explore and a bunch of fun powers that really make the most of VR. Throwing monsters around is instantly satisfying and that only builds as you learn to deal with the chaos of blocking incoming projectiles, tearing things apart and dealing with everything else coming at you!”

About Coatsink
Coatsink has developed & published fantastic titles for console, PC and VR, including great games like Jurassic World: Aftermath, REPLACED, Cake Bash, PHOGS!, The Last Hero of Nostalgaia, and Worldless. Coatsink have built a reputation on exciting and innovative titles, and a wicked sense of humour! Formed in 2009, it has grown into a diverse and versatile development studio and indie publisher, now part of the Thunderful Group.

Sci-fi cleaner to be published by Thronefall publisher Mythwright, sign-up for a future playtest today

London, UK – March 18, 2026 – Zip up your hazmat suit and lather up your mop: sci-fi survival horror just got… soapy. Lift off for an intergalactic mission to clean up horrific deep space disaster zones in CLEANER COMPANY, a sci-fi co-op cleaning sim coming to Steam and Epic Games Store later this year. Sign-up for the playtest today – the galaxy isn’t going to clean this monstrous mess itself…

As an elite member of the Star Wipers crew, strap on your cleaning tools and gear up for a grisly cleanup of horror hotspots across the galaxy. From eerie space stations, to ruined restaurants and ominous undiscovered planets, Star Wipers are sent in to clean up the mess when things go wrong. And in the far reaches of space, business is booming…

Play together with friends in up to 4 player online co-op, embarking on interstellar expeditions to mop up monstrous messes, tackle challenges, and collect resources to upgrade your cleaning equipment.

Wash away unsightly stains, deal with detritus, and try not to become the latest mess on a freshly washed wall. Survive threats from the deadly lifeforms behind the horror, donning your mop to conquer galactic messes in an out of this world survival horror cleaning sim.

GAME FEATURES:

• 1-4 Player Sci-Fi Survival Cleaning – Join the Star Wipers and set off on an intergalactic expedition to clean devastated space stations, ruined restaurants and more, bringing deep space horror hotspots back to their dazzling former shine.
• Survive Dangerous Threats – Abandoned space stations often tend to be abandoned for a reason… Face threats from terrifying alien creatures in a fight to survive your next big clean.
• Deep Space, Deep Clean – Acquire resources and complete cleanup duties to ‘brush up’ your team’s equipment and handle those more stubborn stains.
• Physics-Based Chaos – Dynamic physics makes cosmic cleaning fun! Stack up bits and pieces, spill stuff, and try not to make more mess than you started with. Just don’t ask us how the gravity systems are still online.

ABOUT WILDFLAME STUDIO
As a specialist in multiplayer titles, Wildflame Studio believes that the best experiences are born when players can enjoy them together. “Together is better!”

ABOUT MYTHWRIGHT
Mythwright is an independent publisher founded by industry veterans. Established in 2024, Mythwright has already signed a range of exciting titles including Thronefall, Kaiju Cleanup, TerraTech Legion, TerraTech Worlds, TerraTech, Going Medieval, Cozy Marbles, Galacticare, War for the Overworld, Bladesong, Innkeep, Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts, Deadstick – Bush Flight Simulator and Touch Type Tale – Strategic Typing.

Infold Games Shares Development Insights on Love and Deepspace and Infinity Nikki at GDC

At this year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC), Infold Games presented a series of talks centered on its two titles, Love and Deepspace and Infinity Nikki, covering areas such as content design, production workflows, talent development, and live-service operations.

The sessions explored a range of topics across both projects. For Love and Deepspace, the team discussed its approach to romance game design, including interactive storytelling, character development methodologies, and the structure of its cinematic production pipeline. The talks also touched on internal talent development, outlining career progression from junior artists to art directors.

For Infinity Nikki, the sessions focused on the game’s live-service approach and its use of fashion as a core content and gameplay element. These discussions highlighted how creative direction is supported by production processes to enable ongoing content updates.

Taken together, the talks reflect Infold Games’ ongoing investment in both technical development and original content creation, and how these areas inform its broader production approach.

In Love and Deepspace, the team described how elements such as character design systems and cinematic pipelines are used to support the delivery of an “immersive emotional experience” within a structured development framework.

For Infinity Nikki, the team shared how areas such as 3D garment rendering, fabric simulation, and content production workflows contribute to the game’s visual presentation and ongoing content development.

Additional sessions covered topics including real-time rendering, cinematic production workflows, and hardware-level optimization, offering insight into how the team approaches performance and visual quality across platforms.

Through this series of talks, Infold Games provided an overview of its development practices and shared perspectives on how it aligns creative direction, technical development, and live operations across its projects. These sessions also contributed to broader industry conversations around production methodologies and evolving approaches to game design.

About Infold Games

Infold Games is a global studio launched by Paper Games aiming for global expansion. Established in August 2022, Infold Games has achieved remarkable success across multiple countries and regions. Its latest title from the Mr. Love series, Love and Deepspace, officially launched on January 18, 2024, and quickly gained impressive results worldwide. On December 5, 2024, Infinity Nikki launched simultaneously across the globe, earning widespread acclaim from both players and media, with a score of 9 from IGN and an average rating of 80 on Metacritic.