The Nintendo Download for 1/8/26 is here with another weird weekly digest. Not many featured titles this week, but plenty of digital games to enjoy for all.

HPP's last preview of 2025 is Mato Fragments, a compelling and somewhat perplexing VN from Arrowiz and Soft Source, set in the world of Mato Anomalies.

CrossWorlds is a lot of fun to race your way through. The cars feel good and it has some interesting ideas about keeping things fresh. I did come away from my time with it wanting a bit more, though.

Fair warning, I’m gonna get a bit in the weeds here, but with the goal of clearly explaining how it plays. Each turn, you’ll get one more play point (think mana for Magic), which is used to play all ...

Overwatch 2 is as strange a sequel as many of us expected it would be. It makes fundamental changes to the way Overwatch is played, in ways that go far beyond the average update, while still remaining ...

The Pillars of the Earth is kind of a mash-up between a point-and-click and a visual novel. The story takes place in 12th century England, and follows the lives of several characters, such as Tom ...

Once upon a time in a faraway kingdom there lived a man named Wood and his precious daughter whom he called Rose. Wood’s wife had unfortunately passed years prior, leaving him to take care of his ...

Set against the backdrop of post-apocalyptic earth, the world as we know it has been reduced to ruins by the “Pandoravirus,” an illness that genetically alters and mutates living beings. Phoenix Point ...

As an indie enthusiast, I’m constantly hunting for the next great adventure. One publisher that takes repeated chances on indie adventures is eastasiasoft. So when I saw they were publishing a ...

Bringing old games to modern platforms can be tricky, especially when you’re trying to create a new native port. In recent years, Limited Run Games have gotten around that by using their Carbon Engine ...

There were a lot of reasons that I was truly looking forward to reviewing Gal Guardians: Servants of the Dark. For one thing, I’m generally a pretty big fan of the work of Inti Creates. For another, I ...

It’s hard to believe it’s been 26 years since the last proper Streets of Rage game released. Originally intended to compete with Capcom’s hugely-successful Final Fight when it debuted on the Genesis ...