There’s a lot going on in Freedom Finger. It’s a shoot ’em up, sure. But it has at least three unique selling points: the mechanics, the presentation, and the music. The first two are connected: your ship is a hand giving it...
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In the same week as a Nintendo Direct which included the confirmation of SNES games on Nintendo Switch Online, Nintendo has thrown this excellent teaser video out there: What is it? Why it’s some sort of ‘Nintendo Circle’ of course! The leading...
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It’s gamescom! But I’m sure we’ve all seen enough photos of people intently playing games at booths, and excitable crowds baying at something going on on a stage. So here’s Spider-Man skulking around while people play boardgames, and some ball grabbing on...
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Much excitement this week as Nintendo of America announced a couple of new Joy-Con colours: Neon Purple/Neon Orange and Blue/Neon Yellow. Excitement particularly because – and surely this can’t be accidental – they’re a bit Wario-y: the orange and purple obviously, but...
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In short: Dr Mario World. First, the original. Fortunately, Dr Mario is one of the NES games available with Nintendo Switch Online, and it’s on the NES Classic Mini, so it’s not hard to track down. But, along with what seems like...
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Reality Gaming Group this week set about promoting their augmented reality mobile combat game Reality Clash by revealing the top ten locations for playing the game. It’s mostly popular places in London – Trafalgar Square, Hyde Park, Westfield Stratford, that sort of...
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The Switch conversion of Virtua Racing quickly achieved almost legendary status on its Japanese release, but its UK release this week rather snuck up on me. After throwing a very reasonable £5.99 at the Nintendo eShop, I got straight into very definitely...
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Zarvot is an odd mix. It’s promoted as the story of two cubes getting a present for their cube friend. Though mostly it’s an isometric shooter. But really it’s both. And also not quite either. Plus a bit of fiddly other stuff....
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