In the early days, Nintendo was unchallenged in the handheld market. Just looking at the best Game Boy games will explain how this simple system managed to sell for so long, but eventually, it needed a little upgrade. We wouldn’t get a true next-gen handheld until the eventual Game Boy Advanced (make sure not to miss our list of the best GBA games), but we did receive a small improvement with the Game Boy Color.
Despite its short lifespan, the Game Boy Color managed to get several great games, including some of the best Pokémon games and the best Zelda games, most of which we still consider some of the best games of all time. In fact, some are even better than the best 3DS games or best Switch games, and they’re certainly still worth tracking down.
Super Mario Bros. is a timeless classic that didn’t really need to be updated, but Game Boy Color decided to pack in some additional trimmings anyway. Game Boy Color changed some of the colors to make the graphics appear to pop off the screen. Fans of the NES original will appreciate the Deluxe version for nostalgic reasons, if nothing else. But there’s plenty for newcomers to love, too – the perfect platforming and level design of the game make it an enjoyable game to play. Just because it’s old doesn’t mean it’s outdated. In fact, we prefer it over many of its successors.
The Call of Duty franchise has held a special place in my heart ever since I played my first Black Ops game back in 2010. That game's campaign was something else, with twists and turns that culminated in a mind-blowing finale. We can all admit that compared to those older campaigns, the recent CODs have been lackluster at best, and a complete and utter disappointment at worst. The reboot of Modern Warfare did give me some hope, as the first two installments were actually quite good, but the third game left such a bad taste in my mouth that I wasn’t exactly expecting much from Modern Warfare 4.
After recently finishing the campaign, I can say that this installment is nothing like the recent releases and instead feels closer to the franchise’s roots. For the first time in a long while, the campaign comes across as well-crafted rather than rushed to hit a release date. It arrives three years after MW3, and you can see exactly where all that time went. It seems the studio finally made listening to player feedback a priority.
Epic Games has just announced the 2026 Epic AI MegaJam, which is looking to see how much game development can be squeezed into a very short window. This is running from November 12 through November 15.
Participants can work alone or in teams of up to five people, build in Unreal Engine or Unreal Editor for Fortnite, and bring along “as many AI agents as you want.” Epic explicitly encourages coding agents, AI-generated assets, audio tools, writing tools, and other AI systems. The official event page literally says "Vibe your way to $50k.”
It’s turning into a pretty good time to be a Monster Hunter fan who plays on a phone. Capcom has confirmed that Monster Hunter Outlanders will launch on Android and iOS on October 29, giving the series a new mobile-first game just as Monster Hunter Rise is also preparing to make the jump to smartphones through Netflix.
Outlanders is being developed by Tencent subsidiary TiMi Studio Group under license and supervision from Capcom. Unlike Rise, which appears to be the full console and PC game adapted for mobile, Outlanders is a free-to-play survival hunting game made specifically for phones.