Coming from Keita Takahashi, the mind behind the Katamari Damacy series, it isn’t much of a surprise to find that ‘to a T’ is imaginative when it comes to both its premise and character design. You play as a teenager permanently stuck in the ‘T pose’ who’s blundering their way through life and school, trying to …
QUByte Interactive’s Music Drive: Chase the Beat is a low poly action-focused driving game, influenced by favela communities. Rappers Tina and Tunner (ah!) are out to recover hard drives containing unreleased tracks, with Tina being the getaway driver and Tunner being a sharpshooter. The pursuit soon spills onto the streets, resulting in car chases and …
It’s one of the quietest weeks in Switch eShop history, with less than a dozen games due. We can only assume publishers believe Nintendo diehards are caught up in Switch 2 hype. First-person horror Y. Village – The Visitors is amongst the handful of games due, taking place in a mysterious village and featuring FMV …
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Vampire Survivors creator poncle should consider themselves so. Keeper’s Toll is brazenly influenced by the highly praised auto-shooter, right down to looking and sounding similar. But while clearly trying to ride the coattails of that game’s success, it not only shows a great understanding of the genre …
R-Type Delta isn’t the only PlayStation game about to gain a HD re-release. RPG specialists XSEED have also announced plans to bring Milano’s Odd Job Collection to the West for the first time. This Japanese exclusive, released in 1999, is a pixel art affair with a relaxed vibe. You play as Milano, an 11-year-old girl …
Seeking a companion, an old lady strolls down the halls of a cat adoption centre. She coughs and splutters while perusing the cats available, preferring an adult cat to spend her days with rather than a kitten. On the car journey home, the cat meows constantly, and once free of the carrier chooses to hide …
The UK retail (physical) charts are in, revealing which titles were purchased alongside a shiny new Switch 2 last week. The fact that nearly every physical release available on day one can be found within this week’s all formats top 40 suggests a strong launch. The only no show was Sid Meier’s Civilization VII. Coming …
Over the announcement-filled weekend, publisher Clear River Games revealed a few more titbits on their upcoming retro-inspired releases. First, a new game reveal. Side scrolling shooter R-Type Delta HD Boosted – based on the excellent 1998 PS1 original – is coming to PS5, PS4, Xbox One, Switch and PC later this year, with a retail …
Third-person shooters were a dime a dozen during the Xbox 360/PS3 era. While the genre is still popular, they’re certainly fewer and further between nowadays. This week however sees two heavy hitters arrive, with both the IO Interactive published MindsEye and SEGA’s remaster Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Master Crafted Edition due out Tuesday. MindsEye – …
2020’s rhythm action platformer No Straight Roads is bringing the band back together for a sequel. Metronomik and Shueisha Games’ No Straight Roads 2 sees rock stars Mayday and Zuke joined by two newcomers after reaching international stardom, all of which have their own line of hack ‘n slash style combat. The story sees the …
For many gamers who grew up in the ‘90s, Namco’s Ridge Racer represented the start of a new generation. The speedy racer hit arcades in 1993, generating a huge buzz due to featuring texture-mapped polygons. This leap in technology gave us a glimpse into the future of console gaming, with Ridge Racer quickly announced as …
When a console enters its twilight years it isn’t uncommon to see late releases vanish and re-emerge on the system that supersedes it. It’s generally known a few N64 games made the jump to the GameCube, such as Resident Evil 0, Eternal Darkness and Star Fox Adventures. Technically we could include the third-person shooter Riqa …
It’s the Switch 2’s launch day! Fans wanted a more powerful system, and that’s exactly what Nintendo has delivered – with the Switch 2 being more of an evolution than a revolution. The system is said to be able to match the PS4 Pro, and word has it developers are happy with the specs. There’s …
After years of cancellations and several false starts, an official Mortal Kombat collection is in the works. Arguably, the best team in the business has been assigned the task – retro specialists Digital Eclipse, who brought us Atari 50 and Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story. Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection is out later this year and …
The term ‘working from home’ has gained a new meaning in CyberCorp’s rendition of the future. From the comfort of their apartment, a hacker extraordinaire – referred to as “Agent” – is able to remotely control a cybernetic body. Taking the form of a sleek and agile Synth, they’re sent out onto the neon-lit streets …
