Steve Jobs caught lightning in a bottle when creating Atari’s arcade hit Breakout, taking something as simple as Pong and adding a compelling twist. Some forty years later, breaking blocks with a paddle remains an inviting mechanic, the draw and desire to...
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The Switch receives its inevitable mid-cycle revamp this week, in the form of the £200 Switch Lite. The handheld only…handheld arrives alongside a slew of new software including The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening and Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White...
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2K Games are on a roll. Last week NBA 2K20 topped the UK chart, becoming the first-ever basketball game to do so. Borderlands 3 replaces it this week, outperforming previous 2019 biggest seller Days Gone to become the fastest-selling physical release of...
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Rather than provide Borderlands 3 review code to all and sundry, 2K has only let a select handful of critics loose on the eagerly awaited loot shooter. And even then, it was restricted to the PC version, which Kotaku reports was a...
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Chances are the youth of today are unfamiliar with the insane level of buzz surrounding The Blair Witch Project. Created on a budget of just $60k, the 1999 psychological horror flick went on to gross almost quarter of a million dollars, fuelled...
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Last week Astral Chain became Platinum Games’ first title to head straight to no.1. This week, NBA 2K20 becomes the first basketball sim to take the UK chart top spot. With the industry constantly shifting towards digital, we can foresee more unexpected...
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After countless requests for SNES games on Switch, Nintendo are about to deliver with a huge supply drop of 20 titles. They’re arriving today (Thursday) as part of the online service. The initial line-up is a decent mixture of expected classics (Super...
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Reviews of Gears 5 are now live, and while it has received some predictably glowing reviews – including top marks from God is a Geek, along with several 9/10s – not every critic was smitten by the eagerly awaited blockbuster. The Metro...
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