Colin Buchanan

Milwaukee

Senior Staff Writer at Noisy Pixel

Game critic. Very gay. He/they. @NoisyPixelNews senior staff writer. @AniTAYOfficial contributor. @PanginaHeals stan. Star Wars book nerd.

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Articles

Survival Kids Review – Nostalgic Franchise Returns With A Twist For A New Generation

1 week ago | noisypixel.net | Colin Buchanan

One of the most bizarre experiences I’ve ever had in this job was watching the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct a few months ago, and seeing a trailer for a game about kids exploring an island. Literally, my first thought was “is this Survival Kids? After all this time?” and then thinking I must have been wrong when the game clearly showed itself to be a co-op title, something the series has never been before.
Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S Review – Switch 2’s Best Puzzle Party Game

2 weeks ago | noisypixel.net | Colin Buchanan

Puyo Puyo Tetris is one of those games that tells you basically everything you need to know just in the title. What is it? Well, it’s a fusion game that mashes up SEGA’s anime blob puzzler series with gaming’s most legendary block-dropping franchise. If you grew up addicted to either of these games, congratulations, here’s more of either or both of them. Now, the Switch 2 exclusive Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S delivers the absolute best version of that concept to date.
Mario Kart World Review

2 weeks ago | noisypixel.net | Colin Buchanan

The biggest hurdle to overcome for Nintendo’s offerings this generation is going to be content. When your titles from the previous generation, on hardware known for being much weaker than the competition, were still the biggest games you’d ever created in those franchises, it’s rather hard to imagine them trying to outdo themselves on quantity. We don’t know yet how this is going to happen for the follow-up to Super Smash Bros.
Yakuza 0 Director’s Cut Review – Is The Upgrade Worth It?

2 weeks ago | noisypixel.net | Colin Buchanan

Any time a new remaster of a game that was already easily (and cheaply) available comes out, I think there’s one question that’s worth considering above all others – is this version worthwhile compared to the one I might already have?
Requiem (RE9) Officially Revealed At Summer Game Fest, Launches February 2026

3 weeks ago | noisypixel.net | Colin Buchanan

After multiple teases throughout the show (including a fake-out where it was hinted that the game wasn’t ready to show yet), Resident Evil 9 (officially called Resident Evil: Requiem) was announced at Summer Game Fest, with a release date that’s way sooner than we would have expected: February 27, 2026. The cinematic trailer starts to introduce us to a new cast of characters, particularly focusing on FBI Agent Grace Ashcroft.
Scott Pilgrim EX Announced By Tribute Games & Universal With New Story And Soundtrack

3 weeks ago | noisypixel.net | Colin Buchanan

Just when you thought it was safe to be friends with Ramona Flowers, Scott Pilgrim EX is coming to deliver even more four-player beat-em-up action and a new original story. The game is a follow-up to Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game, a co-op action game that originally debuted on the seventh generation of consoles and was famously delisted until it was finally rereleased by Ubisoft a few years ago.
Square Enix Reveals Killer Inn, A Murder-Mystery Social Deduction Game With Action Combat

3 weeks ago | noisypixel.net | Colin Buchanan

Square Enix and Tactic Studios dropped a trailer for Killer Inn, a new social-deduction murder-mystery game, during Summer Games Fest. The game sees 24 players invited to a strange and old castle, competing to win “unfathomable riches”. They are randomly and anonymously split into two teams – the Wolves, whose goal is to slaughter all of the Lambs to win their prize, and the Lambs, whose goal is to deduce and kill the Wolves to survive.
End Of Abyss Revealed By Section 9 & Epic, Launches In 2026

3 weeks ago | noisypixel.net | Colin Buchanan

Section 9 and Epic Games Publishing showed off End of Abyss, an atmospheric horror survival game, during Summer Games Fest. The game will star the young combat tech Cel, as she descends into a complex and ruined facility to investigate “disturbances of unknown origins”. Players will need to upgrade their gear and explore to find hidden resources in order to keep up with the increasing danger of the ruins and stay alive.
Atomic Heart 2 Announced, Promises Deeper Narrative And Expanded Action

3 weeks ago | noisypixel.net | Colin Buchanan

Atomic Heart 2 was revealed at today’s Summer Games Fest event, unsurprisingly, as the sequel to Atomic Heart, an alternate-history science-fiction first-person shooter released in 2023. The game is set in a retro-futuristic version of an alternate Soviet Union in the 1950s, as society collapses under the weight of a robot uprising. In our review, we complimented the set-piece action that the first game delivered, and it seems likely that the second title will deliver even more of that.
Code Vein II Announced For 2026, Promises Bigger Fights & New Look

3 weeks ago | noisypixel.net | Colin Buchanan

2017’s Code Vein left players on a massive cliffhanger that they (including myself) might have thought would go unresolved forever. Still, Bandai Namco has finally answered their prayers – Code Vein II is finally coming in 2026. The first game was a Soulslike that placed player-created characters in a post-apocalyptic world where monsters roamed the streets of the ruined city, and asked them to piece together for themselves how exactly the world came to be so destroyed.