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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 the middle finger, which gives us the non-standard shoot ’em up mechanics, and …
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 theory is something along the lines of Switch Sports or Switch Fit, and …
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 the paysafecard stage. gamescom photos: Koelnmesse / Thomas Klerx; Koelnmesse / Oliver Wachenfeld; …
News hit this week that Alec Baldwin is going to be promoting the ten year anniversary of Words With Friends from this autumn. The accompanying photo of him playing a definitely-real game against Bernard Kim, Zynga’s President of Publishing, is enjoyably basic. But the photo of Bernard Kim? Brace yourself. His profile on the Zynga …
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 you could argue that the blue and yellow recalls the W symbol on …
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 all NES games apart from Kirby, it is hard. It’s a classic tile-matcher, …
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 thing – so not exactly news. But it’s a great excuse to dig …
Henry Cavill’s behind was the big picture news this week, as Netflix started to tease their adaptation of The Witcher. Cue much productive* online discourse: fans of the games complaining about the lack of a second sword; fans of the books patiently* pointing out that it’s true to the book – which the series is …
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 the best version of Virtua Racing I’ve played. But in this case, a …
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. First, some reassurance: the story element works really nicely. My main fear was …
There’s something to be said for the gentler pursuits in life. Like having a nice sit – what could be better? But gentle can also be pointless, like Radio 4 sitcoms. Which is Mimpi Dreams? LET’S FIND OUT. (An attempt at building tension, there. Not desperately easy in a review of a Switch conversion of …
Turns out those Gold Points you get for registering Switch games expire after a year. At least Nintendo had the good grace to tell me. So: what can I get with £1.16? Well, it changes pretty frequently, because it’s mostly games with massive discounts on a usual price of a few quid. When I spent …
Normally when I don’t understand a modern game – Fortnite, Minecraft, Destiny, the list goes on – I feel like a dinosaur. And I’m perfectly comfortable with that. But with Dreams, I think I’m with the majority for once. So I was keen to seek it out at EGX – and that I did. Having …
The PlayStation Classic is already heading for unobtainable status, just days after being announced, and months before launch. Because of course it is. Half of the pre-orders are from people who actually want one, half are from people who wrongly think they want one just because it’s popular, and half are from people who want …
After 75 hours, on and off over six months, I finally completed The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. But I still can’t decide what I think of it. It must have done something right: I’m not sure I’ve ever played a game for 75 hours. Super Mario 64, maybe? I really loved that …