If you were to travel back to 26th March 2001, we’d definitely recommend grabbing as many factory-sealed N64 and Dreamcast games as you can carry. If we recall, retailers were clearing out stock around this time. We certainly remember Oxford Street’s HMV...
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Games Asylum is twenty years old this month. Turns out early 2001 was the ideal time to launch a new gaming site. We caught the tail end of the Dreamcast, Game Boy Color, N64 and PSone – managing to cover the final...
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SEGA’s decision to drop the Saturn more than a year before the UK launch of the Dreamcast – giving them little to no presence within Europe during that time – could be seen as a mercy killing. The much-maligned 32-bit system scraped...
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When perusing the list of games this accursed year has given us, contenders for overlooked titles were bountiful. However, and regrettably, haven’t played many for ourselves – if we were to cover them here, we’d simply be paraphrasing. So, let us give...
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With the ‘big day’ now just weeks away, we’ve laid out a spread of handpicked gaming goodies guaranteed to delight. Or if you simply fancy treating yourself, we aren’t ones to judge – 2020 has, frankly, been beyond tough. Cyberpunk is the...
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Final Fantasy VII was nothing short of ground-breaking. Japanese role-playing games had only enjoyed limited success in the west before its arrival, often perceived as being as a bit, well, nerdy. They were renown for being slow-paced, text-heavy, and needlessly complicated –...
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Back in March we put one of EasySMX’s budget gaming headsets through its paces and were impressed with the result. Their £15-£20 ‘Cool 2000’ model offered sound and build quality that far exceeded expectation, retailing for less than the basic official Xbox...
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SEGA revealed the final batch of Mega Drive Mini titles earlier this week. In a surprise twist, instead of unveiling ten games as expected, twelve made the cut. This brings the grand total up to 42. The final 12 are a mixture...
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