Matt Gander 
WB’s Hogwarts Legacy has managed to hold onto no.1 in the UK all formats retail chart, fuelled by strong sales of the PS4, Xbox One and Switch versions. At #2 it’s a new arrival for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which also took no.1 in the PS5 chart and #2 in the Xbox Series top ten …
Last week ended up being far busier than anticipated, with Bethesda randomly dropping Oblivion: Remastered during a quiet Tuesday afternoon. On top of that, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s reviews were resoundingly positive, becoming one of the highest rated games of the year, while SNK’s FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves managed to silence the naysayers …
We’re going back to the PS1 era with Labyrinth of the Demon King, a dungeon crawler with a purposely grimy and low poly 32-bit aesthetic. FromSoftware’s King’s Field games were the biggest influence, we feel. Set in feudal Japan, you play as a foot soldier known as Ashigaru, whose mission is to slay the Demon …
PS5, Xbox Series and PC owners are currently getting lost in the colossal RPG duo Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered. Turns out the Switch isn’t without a smattering of RPGs this week either, if last week’s Lunar Remastered Collection wasn’t enough to be getting on with. Maliki: Poison of …
The UK retail chart is largely stagnant this week, with just a few titles swapping places inside the top ten. We do have a couple of new arrivals, however, so it isn’t entirely void of activity. Hogwarts Legacy is the UK’s no.1 for a second week running, which appears to be down to a combination …
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, the industry’s worst kept secret, is out now on Xbox (via Game Pass), PS5 and PC via Steam. This makes a busy week even busier – Xbox Game Pass subscribers already had an RPG to look forward to this week, in the form of the excellent looking Clair Obscur: …
At least once per console generation a developer will latch onto the concept of puppets and stage shows, with past examples including Puppeteer, The Gunstringer, and Dynamite Headdy, along with traces of cardboard stage-like level design also found in the likes of Little Big Planet and Fable Heroes. It’s a set-up that always generates a …
In 2021, the classic 1993 puzzle adventure Myst – which helped sell millions of CD-ROM drives to PC owners – gained a new lease of life through an Unreal Engine powered remake, taking the pre-rendered visuals and capturing their mysterious essence in 3D. The vastly similar Amerzone, released on PC and PS1 in 1998 through …
We haven’t heard much from upstart publisher Rock It Games of late, presumably still hard at work on the strategic SPACE INVADERS: Deck Commander – which entered early access on PC last year. The retro focused studio has managed to push a new release out of the door though. Jaleco Sports: Bases Loaded is out …
It’s a busy week for new releases considering the time of year. In an ideal world, these would have launched late last week before the chocolate egg filled long weekend. It’s always the way. Sony continues their penchant for remastering releases barely half a decade old with 2019’s Days Gone Remastered. Due out 25th April …
By 1993, UK-based Flair Software was no stranger to the Commodore Amiga, even tasked with creating the movie-themed platformer Oscar as an Amiga CD32 pack-in. It was initially hoped that Zool 2 would become the flagship CD32 platformer, but Gremlin chose to add extra polish and release it on multiple formats at a later date, …
We’re mere hours away from the start of a long weekend. If you’re hoping to spend the next four days playing new Switch games, the ever-dependable eShop has you covered. RPG fans can jump into LUNAR Remastered Collection, which brings together two PS1/Saturn role players – Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete (1996) and Lunar 2: Eternal …
If you enjoyed the recent 2D explorative platformer Shadow of the Orient, or perhaps have an appreciation for the genre as a whole, then you may want to mark 8th May on your calendar – the day the similar looking pixel art endeavour Wings of Endless is set to launch. Due on all formats for …
Let’s not beat around the bush – a drug dealer simulator is far from the most morally virtuous concept. The spin put onto it, by both the developer and publisher, is that it allows players to create a drug empire from scratch without facing the consequences of pursuing this “career” in real life. We can …
The latest retail charts are filled with re-entries of older discounted titles, suggesting last week was sluggish for physical media sales. Almost half the top 40 comprises re-entries, in fact. These are turbulent times. Hogwarts Legacy has returned to the top spot, seemingly due to the Switch version being discounted somewhere, as the wand flicking …