Matt Gander 
In September, the retro collection Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration received its first paid DLC, The Wider World of Atari. Next week (8th Nov) the second piece of paid DLC launches, featuring another 19 games. The First Console War, as it’s known, details the battle between the Atari 2600 and Mattel’s Intellivision through a new …
QUByte Interactive are currently wrapping up their annual digital event, during which the indie publisher revealed a handful of new titles and updates to existing ones. Some of these titles were revealed a while ago, including a console release of the N64 platformer Glover and the unique survival horror Saborus – which sees a chicken trying …
Konami’s scrolling arcade beat’em ups from the ‘90s are well documented online, with countless ‘let’s play’ videos available on YouTube and full written histories for certain key entries. Some of these games are even playable on modern consoles, with the likes of Turtles in Time and its predecessor gaining re-releases via The Cowabunga Collection. Nowadays …
Perfectly timed for Halloween, the Sometimes You published horror romp Self-Delusion has launched on the digital services for just over a tenner. We’ve spent some time with it, and it’s certainly an oddity. This isn’t so much a horror adventure or a narrative driven affair, but rather a peculiar survival game based on Slavic folklore. …
Several developers are currently working on the next evolution of Vampire Survivors-style auto shooters, aiming to refined, expand, and put their own stamp on the genre. The creators of Vampire Hunters are arguably ahead of the curve, presenting the world with a first-person roguelike auto-shooter in which our hero carries numerous weapons at once, populating …
Nintendo’s big winter release, Mario & Luigi: Brothership, is barely a week away. If you’re looking for something to play in the meantime, this week’s assortment of new Switch eShop releases has you covered. Just in time for Halloween, there’s the reasonably priced (£19.99) Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered, which includes new skins and …
It looks like we’re in for some retro action this December, with TAITO Milestones 3 set to launch on 10th Dec. This is, as it happens, the same day the scrolling beat’em up Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind is out. A potentially expensive day for retro diehards! TAITO Milestones 3 is due both digitally …
Rebellion has released a surprise revival of the Bitmap Brothers’ futuristic sports game Speedball – something of an icon when it comes to UK gaming history, closely associated with the Amiga in particular. Speedball is available now in early access on PC for £14.99/$17.99. Taking place in 2138, it sees two teams of cybernetically augmented players …
Last week saw a battle between Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and SEGA’s Sonic X Shadow Generations at retail. Despite not being available on Switch, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 was the biggest-selling of the two, effortlessly topping the UK’s top 40 retail chart. The Activision publisher shooter also took no.1 in the …
Christmas games were seldom seen a few generations ago and it’s easy to comprehend why. Development costs swiftly rose around the time the Xbox 360 and PS3 launched, and creating something that would only have a shelf-life of a month or two in the run-up to Christmas would be an extremely risky proposition for any …
A couple of generations ago EA was one of the most prolific publishers, releasing big budget games on almost a monthly basis. Modern EA is a different beast, mostly focuses on The Sims and their annual sporting/racing updates – their last ‘new’ title was Tales of Kenzera: Zau back in April. This ‘less is more’ …
In his free time, police officer Rick enjoys exploring houses allegedly haunted. His latest pursuit, however, sounds more like a case for the boys back at base. Screaming has been heard coming from an abandoned house once belonging to a late ventriloquist. If that wasn’t enough, the last person brave enough to investigate never returned. …
It’s an exceedingly busy week for the Switch eShop, with several time-consuming RPGs and long-lasting adventures available – most of which originate from Japan. There’s another noticeable pattern to this week’s licensed games, with Care Bears: To The Rescue, Barbie Project Friendship, and Miraculous: Paris Under Siege seemingly appealing to the same audience. The Smurfs …
December sees another dual game cart for the Evercade. As many owners will testify, Blaze’s dual carts tend to be pretty good, with the standard generally higher and the games themselves more complex. Metal Dragon and Life on Mars are two modern indie Mega Drive games from Spanish studio Kai Magazine Software, known for pushing …
This 16-bit style vertical shooter has been crafted with a very astute eye for detail, borrowing graphical tricks from both the Mega Drive and SNES and employing them with surprising authenticity. It also uses elements from Truxton and Axley as inspiration, using demonic imagery but never fully committing to full hellishness. It perhaps helps that …