Crashbots

This isometric auto-runner boasts a decent amount of content, easily able to justify its £8-£9 price tag – roughly double the price of Sometimes You’s previous titles. Once the tutorial world is out of the way you’re greeted by 125 stages spread across five worlds, including the occasional boss battle, plus unlockable characters all of …

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SlabWell: The Quest For Kaktun’s Alpaca (Switch)

SlabWell is Q*bert. An isometric puzzler where the goal is to step on all of the yellow tiles once, turning them red. Simple, right? I can go home now. It’s Q*bert. Nothing to discuss. Review over. It’s Q*bert. Except SlabWell is actually rather fascinating – it shows how you can take a simple premise, think …

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God’s Trigger

Twin-stick shooters are usually associated with simple control schemes, with most mapping essential commands solely to a joypad’s trigger buttons. Due to starring a duo of comic book-style characters with supernatural abilities, God’s Trigger utilizes every single button on the controller – even the rarely used L3 and R3. As the saying goes, with great …

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35 new releases hit the Switch, including Dragon’s Dogma, SteamWorld Quest, Mortal Kombat 11, and…Panty Party

The Switch eShop certainly is a hubbub of activity recently, and this week is no different. There’s a heady mixture of genres, which also makes this week more varied than most. Image & Form’s anticipated SteamWorld Quest is available now, putting a role-playing spin on the successful SteamWorld franchise. IGN dished out an 88% review …

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World War Z

Roughly a year ago developer Holospark released Earthfall, an extra-terrestrial take on Valve’s seminal Left 4 Dead. Despite a decent amount of post-launch content, the co-op shooter never managed to find its niche. If only Holospark had taken Saber’s approach and associated a well-known, if outdated, movie license with their shooter it may have avoided …

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World War Z climbs to the top of the chart

In what was likely a quiet week for physical UK game sales, the incredibly belated movie tie-in World War Z had no trouble claiming no.1 in the all-formats top 40. Publisher Focus Interactive must be pleased as punch, as it also managed to top both the PS4 and Xbox One charts. It’s not often we …

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Metagal – Review (Switch)

Homage is difficult. Scott Pilgrim vs the World is a homage to 1980’s video games and the Toronto indie music scene. Both the novel and the film are wildly inventive and beautiful works which use the specificity of the premise and place to say wider things about love, responsibility and growing up. Mockbuster movie Transmorphers …

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Cuphead launches on Switch today – we’ll drink to that

The Switch continues to prove that it’s the little system that could, placing an extremely competent conversion of Cuphead in the hands of run ‘n gun fans. Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry was left entirely smitten. “Cuphead delivers a locked 60 frames per second on both docked and mobile Switch configurations, meaning that it’s absolutely on par …

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Godly Corp – Review (Switch)

Flailing limb sims such as Surgeon Simulator and Octodad have become big business recently. The former, in particular, has sold over 2 million copies. It’s easy to see why. Surgeon Simulator is hilarious, frequently making the slippery controls and the player’s incompetence the centre of its comedy making machine. Godly Corp is the latest attempt …

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There’s hell to pay (play) on Switch this week

You won’t find this week’s biggest Switch release on the eShop. The Nintendo Labo: Toycon 04 VR Kit launches tomorrow, and to quote The Metro, it provides “a thoroughly enjoyable and surprisingly engrossing mix of VR, handicraft, and edutainment.” So, it’s nothing like the Virtual Boy, then. If VR isn’t your thing, worry not as …

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