Steve Jobs caught lightning in a bottle when creating Atari’s arcade hit Breakout, taking something as simple as Pong and adding a compelling twist. Some forty years later, breaking blocks with a paddle remains an inviting mechanic, the draw and desire to...
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Chances are the youth of today are unfamiliar with the insane level of buzz surrounding The Blair Witch Project. Created on a budget of just $60k, the 1999 psychological horror flick went on to gross almost quarter of a million dollars, fuelled...
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The PSone era was packed with great RPGs*. The Final Fantasy games, which have never matched their PSone peak, Vagrant Story, Crono Cross, Xenogears and more. Wonderful stories bursting with imagination. It’s a joy, then, to see so many of them landing...
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So, it has come to this. Console construction sims are so few and far between that we’re willing to take a punt on a tile-matching puzzle game with a side-line of city planning. Not that SubaraCity is much of a gamble, we...
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The history of on-foot racing games isn’t particularly eventful. Codemasters’ Micro Maniacs failed to repeat the success of its toy-endorsed counterpart, early Xbox release Mad Dash Racing sunk without a trace, while Rayman Rush arrived on PSone too late in the day...
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As tempting as it is to run ‘n’ gun in Damsel, sending vampires back to their graves while dashing through the stages in leaderboard breaking time, doing so often ends in instant failure. You see, the small multi-floored levels are littered with...
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Get ready for an ‘old-man-yells-at-sky’ moment. The gaming industry has changed drastically over the last ten years, with games as a service becoming more predominate. Keeping up with the likes of Fortnite and FIFA is almost a full-time job, with seasons, timed...
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Barely a month has passed since Konami announced Contra: Rogue Corps, yet our enthusiasm for the third-person shooter is so low that it had already faded from memory. It wasn’t until making good progress on this review that we remembered it exists,...
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