Without wanting to sound like a broken record, there was a time in the late ‘90s and early noughties when 2D visuals had fallen out of fashion. Some ‘90s critics even scoffed at the PS1 and Saturn versions of In The Hunt – a precursor to the almighty Metal Slug, sporting a similar art direction. …
The Switch eShop is home to releases great and small this week, from Indiana Jones and the Great Circle to Smalland: Survive the Wilds. Machine Games’ whip crackin’ first-person adventure Indiana Jones and the Great Circle reportedly performs well on Switch 2, even in handheld mode. The Metacritic score currently sits at 84%, on par …
Do you believe it’s okay to judge someone entirely on their taste in music? American teen Stacy Rockford thinks so. She also believes that life should be accompanied by a bespoke soundtrack, full of transcendent highs and melancholy lows. When the time comes to move home and say farewell to her closest friends – the …
If you’re familiar with the GBA’s library, you may have come across Blender Bros. – one of the few 2D platformers for the handheld that wasn’t based on a kids’ show or animated movie. Originally developed by Hudson Soft and published by Infogrames in the US, it’s one of the GBA’s rarer games nowadays, routinely …
I can’t remember exactly what I was into at the age of five, but if I were to hazard a guess, I’d say the delightfully clashing worlds of He-Man and Postman Pat. As for video games, I almost certainly knew of them, but still had a couple of years to go until owning a vastly …
Shoot’em up fans can take a bite out of Flying Shark and Fire Shark this August, with a new collection titled Toaplan Arcade Garage: Flying Fire Shark planned for PS4 and Switch. Six games feature in the collection: Developers M2 are including a new Super Easy Mode for newcomers in both Flying Shark and Fire Shark. Arcade Challenge …
Despite being recently absent from the UK top ten, EA Sports FC 26 has managed to bounce back and reclaim the coveted no.1 spot in the latest retail (physical) chart. The sports sim also returns to no.1 on Xbox Series, dethroning Invincible VS. Last week’s chart topper Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream dropped to …
Originally due out a few weeks ago, Outbound – in which four players go off grid in a customisable camper van – was pushed back to this week to give it space. Understandable, yet it still finds itself against a handful of other anticipated new releases. With release schedules as cluttered as they are, it …
You may have a good idea of what to expect from something called Priest Simulator. We’re going to be listening to confessions, standing solemnly at funerals, putting on fundraisers to fix the church roof, and performing exorcisms, right? Well…yes. But you also play as a demonic vampire who finds themselves caught in a holy war …
Long time PlayStation fans may recall Namco’s Cyber Sled – an arcade sci-fi tank shooter that came to Sony’s brand spanking new console not long after the publisher’s own Ridge Racer. While Cyber Sled will likely gain an Arcade Archives re-release at some point, Hamster has chosen to release this 1994 follow-up first. Considering Cyber …
If you believe music is good for the soul, the Switch eShop has two soulful new releases ‘of note’ to consider this week. Mixtape for Switch 2 comes from Annapurna Interactive and sees three teenagers spending one final night together, reliving their past through memories. While partying one last time, you’ll get to listen to …
Even though I worked weekends at a newsagent while in college, I was a little worried that inKONBINI’s unique brand of nostalgia would be lost on me. It takes place in a Japanese convenience store during late 1993, and as such, features products and imagery inspired by that era – from magazine racks lined with …
The name “Adorable Adventures” may not inspire much confidence, sounding uncannily similar to Switch eShop shovelware, but you only need to play it for a minute or two – or perhaps even just glance at the screenshots – to discover that it has been blessed with a modest budget. This is evident not just in …
Nintendo really are ‘living the dream’ with the new Tomodachi Life, as it’s the UK’s no.1 once again, dethroning Capcom’s puzzle-packed sci-fi shooter Pragmata. There’s still life in the boxed PC release market too, with Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition claiming #2 for a second week running. At #3 it’s a new arrival in the form …
Following in the footsteps of the Game Boy, Atari 2600, and NES comes the LEGO SEGA Mega Drive (or LEGO SEGA Genesis, if you prefer) – due out 1st June. That’s less than a month away! Whereas past console sets were on the expensive side, the £220 NES, especially, this brick-based recreation of SEGA’s 16-bit …
