Osyaberi! Horijyo! Gekihori review

Known as ‘Osyaberi! Horijyo! Gekihori: Anna Holinski saves the universe, alright?!‘ in full, this Japanese horizontal shooter lathers on gimmicks thickly, to the point where every single element has either a subtle twist or breaks convention. As shooters go, it’s also both messy and chaotic – with the screen filled with copious amounts of enemies …

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Alchemy Garden review

Step into the enchanting world of Alchemy Garden, a charming blend of farming and shop management simulation genres that invites you to nurture your own mystical garden and concoct magical potions for lucrative returns. After some basic character customisation, we are thrust into the first day of our journey as a garden alchemist. Our humble …

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The Crew Motorfest parks up at #2 in the UK retail chart

The UK retail charts are in, revealing that The Crew Motorfest managed to enter at #2 in the all formats top 40. Coincidentally, it also took #2 in the PS5 top ten. Ubisoft’s open-world racer was the only new arrival, meaning Baten Kaitos I & II HD Remaster – a GAME exclusive in the UK …

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MythForce review

We can thank Ronald Regan, America’s 40th president, for MythForce – albeit in a roundabout way. In the early ‘80s, the Regan administration deregulated advertising, meaning companies could market directly to children through cartoons and other mediums. If you’ve ever wondered why the ‘80s gave us so much wild stuff that’s still ingrained in pop …

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Starfield review

It’s inevitable that Starfield will send you hurtling back to 2015 at some point, recalling playing Fallout 4 for the first time while a launch model Xbox One or PS4 hums in the background. For me, this phenomenon occurred when I wasn’t playing – leave the controller alone for a while and the camera automatically …

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The Dreamcast’s Rainbow Cotton gains a HD re-release next spring

It would be great to see more Dreamcast HD re-releases. The system had an excellent library, and games with arcade-style gameplay are often timeless. Luck would have it there is at least one on the horizon – ININ and Success are remastering the 3D shooter Rainbow Cotton, which never made it outside of Japan back …

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Mystic Gate review

Fantasy meets futurism in this twin-stick shooting dungeon crawler. The titular, ominous, mystic gate leads to a succession of increasingly difficult randomised dungeons filled with goblins, slime blobs, pigmen, floating ancient tomes, and screen-filling dragons. Rather than evening the odds with an array of magical and medieval weaponry, our daring female adventurer is armed with …

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The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo review

This animated point-and-click adventure cranks up surrealism to an almost incomprehensible level. At one point – and bear with me on this – a man with a lightbulb for a head booted his illuminated noggin through the open window of a house, which had a gleaming face, and then the house transformed into Aladin’s lamp. …

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Starfield, NBA 2K24, and Fae Farm enter UK retail chart top ten

Bethesda’s sci-fi opus Starfield has entered the UK retail chart at no.1 This is pretty impressive and for a few different reasons. Firstly, and most obviously, it’s available on Game Pass – which around 40% of Xbox owners reportedly subscribe to. Secondly, the retail version is Xbox Series X only, with the majority of Xbox …

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