Matt Gander 
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 …
After a two-year hiatus, the cutesy hand drawn platformer Little Nemo and The Guardians of Slumberland is back in the public’s eye with a new gameplay trailer. If the name rings a bell, that’ll be because Capcom release a Little Nemo game on the NES, which was technically a movie tie-in as it coincided with …
Three-man Spanish studio Anima Project are keeping true to their name, currently hard at work on remasters of the tabletop RPG inspired duo Anima: Gate of Memories I & II. The first Anima: Gate of Memories launched in 2016 to mixed reviews, while Anima: Gate of Memories – The Nameless Chronicles arrived in 2018 to …
Nintendo treated the European market as an afterthought throughout much of the ‘90s, with many releases in major franchises arriving months, if not years, later than the rest of the world. A handful of key SNES titles such as Earthbound, Kirby’s Dream Land 3 and Super Mario RPG even skipped this region entirely. It was …
The UK’s latest physical release chart sees a few new entries this week, while Sony’s Days of Play promotion has helped many PS5 titles climb the top 40. None of the new arrivals could take the top spot though. Elden Ring Nightreign had to settle for #3 in the all formats chart, while EA’s F1 …
The Switch 2 launches this Thursday, along with around 23 titles – a marked improvement on the paltry five the original Switch arrived with. It’s a meaty line-up, spearheaded by the free roaming Mario Kart World, but don’t expect much in the way of fresh faces, with only a handful of truly new experiences present …
There was a very distinct theme to the evening’s Evercade showcase: arcade games are on the horizon for the cartridge-based gaming system, and lots of ‘em. Firstly though, August’s NeoGeo Arcade 1 is being accompanied by a solo game cart. Roguecraft DX is an Amiga indie game that’s being bolstered with new content. It takes …
Ratalaika Games and Shinyuden are bringing the Game Boy Advance’s sci-fi adventure Scurge: Hive to modern formats. While a DS version exists, it seems reasonable to suggest the dual screen display and touch screen functionality was tricky to replicate on the likes of Xbox One. Surge: Hive was originally developed by Orbital Media and released …
The Switch 2 is just a week away, and there are more than enough new games on the eShop in the meantime to calm even the itchiest of trigger fingers. Reviews of the tactical RPG Fuga: Melodies of Steel 3 – boasting an emotional tale along with a new combat system – are starting to …
Even though born into a world filled with magic and monsters, blue haired bounty hunter Hariku is inexplicably startled by the discovery of a talking owl, found locked in a cage deep inside a forgotten shrine. Quickly forming a bond, Hariku and the owl – now christened Owly – set about travelling to a distant …
Here’s a first-person horror that’s dark in both senses of the word. True to its name, the plot involves a deranged doctor performing sadistic experiments on unwilling victims. After waking up following an abduction, one of the first sights is of a fellow captive being sliced in two while still alive, making for a grim …