Believe it or not, there was a time when the Game Boy Advance was the handheld gaming system to buy. The best Game Boy Color games kept the system going, but it was long overdue for a real upgrade in power. With the GBA, we could now play games on the same level as the best SNES games on the go.
The best GBA titles boasted familiar gameplay and thoughtful level design, rendering them more than a nostalgic cash grab. Don’t believe us? Take a look at our list of the best video games of all time and see how many GBA games made the list. Or, go ahead and check out this definitive list of the best games for our favorite handheld.
Kirby & the Amazing Mirror was a game that revitalized the previous formula used by the best Kirby games. The game was released in 2004, towards the end of the GBA’s production. Most importantly, this game doesn’t use the traditional level-based system. Instead, players can freely explore the world and ultimately discover their path to victory. You can travel from one world to another through a labyrinth, a similar structure to the different worlds of Metroid games. While Amazing Mirror still has the cute, colorful characters that can help Kirby play the game, the storyline is pretty intricate and involved.25.
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.