Matt Gander 
On first glance, nothing seems too innocuous about this remaster. The more I thought about its existence though, the more questions came to light. The good news is that they aren’t the kind of concerns anyone curious should worry about. In fact, the more intrigued you are the better. The original Puzzle Quest dates …
Here comes a new challenger! If it wasn’t for Nintendo’s Switch 2 releases of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, Supergiant Games’ roguelite Hades II would be sitting pretty as the highest rated game of 2025, with its current 95% Metacritic score – formed from dozens of 10/10s – leapfrogging both …
Art of Play, Boat Rocker Studios and the BBC are combining efforts to create a new Danger Mouse game, based largely on the 2015 reboot while featuring hand-drawn/painted visuals to mimic the look of the 1981 series. Crumbs! The storyline is canonical and sees Baron Greenback forcing Danger Mouse and Penfold to re-live their past encounters. …
Take 2’s Borderlands 4 has been dislodged from the UK retail chart’s top spot by Mario Kart World, consequently preventing it from securing a second week at no.1. The individual format charts tell a different story, as the colourful looter shooter remains no.1 in both PS5 and Xbox Series charts. Borderlands 4 now sits at …
Reviews of the dimension hopping Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds went live late last week and were mostly full of praise, with a few sites rating it higher than Mario Kart World – causing a stir on social media. The Metacritic score currently sits at 83%, including a handful of 9/10s. “Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is a fast, …
This turn-based, story driven, RPG doesn’t just use ‘80s anime as a basis for its art direction but embraces the structure of a typical anime series too. The space travel themed storyline is spread across ten episodes lasting around an hour – give or take ten minutes. Each concludes with a boss fight and a …
Described as a game that’ll remind you to call your nana, magical adventure Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato introduces us to Miho – a young boy transported into a peculiar realm after entering his grandmothers’ pantry. What ensues is a jaunt through South America in search of soup ingredients, spread across rainforests, towns and more while …
This week has been kind to shoot’em up fans, seeing the releases of Platypus Reclayed and Zoe Begone. We can now add the modern Mega Drive/Genesis shoot’em up Earthion to that list – which can be downloaded from today. This horizontal space shooter has been causing a stir since hitting Steam in July, gaining gushingly positive …
It’s an RPG heavy week for the Switch eShop with several time consuming, world saving, adventures due. It’s either the case that publishers were oblivious to one another’s plans, or that the genre is so popular nowadays that there’s the belief all will find an audience. Nihon Falcom’s remake Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter …
For something sporting a bright colour palette and a premise that simply involves dodging bullets and shooting enemies, ZOE Begone! is rather deceptive. Initially it seems no more complex than the arcade classics Defender and Fantasy Zone due to its screen-looping and on-screen radar, but there’s far more to it than just that. Jump in …
Finland-based Tensori have an all-together different haunting experience planned for PS5 and PSVR2, in the form of POOLS. True to its name, it entails exploring abandoned swimming pools and submerged corridors, intended to provide an experience that’s both soothing and unsettling as you walk around dimly lit environments and wade through pools of still water. As …
Limited Run Games has announced the rather unexpected Nickelodeon Splat Pack, which brings together four 16-bit games from the mid ‘90s. Included are: Aaahh!!! Real Monsters (Mega Drive/Genesis, SNES), which sees the three monsters working together, a la The Lost Vikings. 25 stages with five bonus levels feature. Rocko’s Modern Life: Spunky’s Dangerous Day (SNES), likened …
Coming as no real surprise, Take 2’s positively reviewed Borderlands 4 managed to debut at no.1 in the UK all formats retail top 40. The colourful co-op shooter is also no.1 in both the PS5 and Xbox Series charts, suggesting a reasonably successful launch. The Switch 2 version, coming in October, should help it catch …
Like RoboCop, Sniper Elite and Elden Ring from earlier this year, the Dying Light franchise this week gains a standalone spin-off. Dying Light: The Beast entails not hunting a ferocious creature but rather becoming one after being forcibly experimented on. Now infused with zombie DNA, it’s a case of harnessing newfound abilities to stop those …
Another format is being added to NSO + Expansion next February, and it’s one that fans have long requested: the Virtual Boy, Nintendo’s early attempt at creating a system with a 3D display. Unlike the recent addition of the GameCube, it’ll be available for both Switch and Switch 2. The red hued headset made its …