Yesterday’s Nintendo Direct resulted in a trio of surprise releases, along with the GameCube’s Star Fox Adventures for NSO – the last game Rare developed for Nintendo before setting sail. Well, aside from a bunch of Nintendo DS games that Microsoft was happy to let Rare create. Star Fox Adventures ended up being divisive, gaining …
In addition to FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves for Switch 2, SNK has announced the multiformat Metal Slug Ultimate Collection, ready to coincide with the franchise’s 30th anniversary. Ten Metal Slug games will feature, along with the long-lost location test version of the original. Here’s the full list: Metal Slug (1996), Metal Slug 2 (1998), …
The rumours are, sadly, true – Plaion has chosen to delay the NeoGeo AES+ console until 16th September 2027. It was originally due in just a couple of months’ time. Plaion puts the delay down to being unable to secure enough memory chips to increase production and meet demand. Rather than launch in November with …
A new NeoGeo game, built from the ground up, is coming in 2027 – and you’ll be able to play it on authentic hardware, due to it gaining both a MVS and AES release. Presumably, it’ll be compatible with the upcoming NEOGEO AES+ console too. Nobody is being left out, as the “Arcadevania” Necro Pop …
While Nightdive and Aspyr regularly remaster classic and cult first-person shooters, from Star Wars: Dark Forces to SiN Reloaded, a handful of developers are creating new experiences that draw from the past. MAETH’s SPRAWL zero is a fine example, intended to look and feel like a noughties shooter. It’s easy to imagine playing it on …
Hot Wheels games from the ’90s and noughties weren’t up to much, simply being casual racers with a handful of recognisable vehicles to justify use of the licence, and a forgiving difficulty level to keep the younger audience content. Then, in 2021, along came Milestone with Hot Wheels Unleashed, a racer that made good on …
Proving that physical media isn’t quite dead yet, this week’s all formats UK retail (physical) chart features an all-new top three. This isn’t something we see too often. Bandai Namco’s The Blood of Dawnwalker and Capcom’s Onimusha: Way of the Sword take positions #1 and #2, respectively. Both have crossed the 1m sales mark worldwide, …
Milestone has seemingly put the Hot Wheels Unleashed series on hiatus, choosing to give us Hot Wheels Infinite Rush instead. This is an open-world racer, set across four islands, with countless challenges to complete – not just races, but also stunt, photo, and destruction-based affairs. If you’re still lamenting the fact that EA never gave …
It seems fair to say that Jaleco Sports Faceoffs – out today on PS5 and Switch, with PC to follow – offers some deep cuts of retro sports sim history. In fact, one of the games present (Pro Sports Hockey for NES) reportedly sells for hundreds of dollars nowadays. The full roster reads as follows: …
Some games hand you the reins. Brigandine Abyss hands you a rulebook, points at a warring continent, and expects you to get on with it. It’s very enjoyable once it clicks, but getting there took hours of playtime and a couple of YouTube sessions. Reviewing games is only a hobby for me, not a career, …
We’ve seen a few LEGO consoles in the past, including the NES, Mega Drive and Atari 2600. Now it’s Sony’s turn with a 1:1 recreation of the original PlayStation. Regrettably running a few years late to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the console, the LEGO PlayStation is formed of 1,911 pieces and comes with a …
Last week gave us a cracker of a conversion in the form of Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition, with numerous critics smitten by how it looks and plays on the Switch 2. We aren’t quite as fortunate this week, as the fellow Souls-like Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty Complete Edition is reportedly arriving on Switch 2 with …
This week’s UK retail (physical) chart sees six new entries in the all formats top 40. Not exactly unprecedented, but still far more than usual. Riding the chart high is Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol.2, securing a rare no.1 for Konami. It also tops the PS5 chart, while taking #2 in the Xbox Series …
The original No More Room In Hell debuted in 2011 as a Half-Life 2 mod in the grand tradition of Counter-Strike and Left 4 Dead. Where NMRIH differed from Valve’s zombie shooter was in its eight-player cap, as opposed to the tightly curated gang of four. Also setting it apart was the fact that you …
If it wasn’t for the fact that this is a sequel, I could believe that the Marsupilami licence was added to this platformer mid-development. Like its predecessor, it showcases platform mastery usually associated with Nintendo and its carefully chosen partner studios. That’s to say, there was clearly a desire here to make a polished platformer, …
