Retro specialists Ziggurat Interactive – who recently re-released Bloodrayne and its sequel on current-gen consoles – have snagged more than 80 titles from the Rainbow Arts catalogue. Rainbow Arts was best known for the Turrican series and the brazen Super Mario Bros. clone The Great Giana Sisters – a game which landed the now defunct publisher …
If we were gambling men, we would have put money on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe once again topping the UK top 40 physical chart. It’s a good job we didn’t lay cash down – this week’s no.1 has come out of leftfield, being good old Minecraft on Switch. FIFA 22 holds onto #2. At #3 …
If you enjoy games a little quirky and different, you’ll relish this week’s assortment of new releases. Flying the flag for originality, we have the hyperactive arcade revival Windjammers 2, the canine snapping Pupperazzi, golf RPG hybrid RPGolf Legends, eccentric action RPG Nobody Saves the World – from the creators of Guacamelee – and the …
Bullets, bright colours, flashing lights and death. If that sounds like a good time to you, then Shinorubi should probably be on your radar. Releasing in Early Access 20th January, it follows in the footsteps of genre titans like Do-Don-Pachi and, well, everything else Cave ever made. Fast-paced vertically-scrolling shooting with a high skill ceiling, …
Most of this week’s Switch games are belated conversions. They aren’t exactly well-known titles, however, which makes for an intriguing week of hidden gems and forgotten classics. Coming as a complete surprise, the Switch gains one of the NeoGeo Pocket Color’s best titles – SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash. The 1999 original was sold …
The retail release of Young Horses’ misfit filled adventure Bugsnax trailed roughly a year behind its digital counterpart – a PS5 launch title, in case you’ve forgotten. Open the box, and you’ll likely agree that it was worth the wait. This is a retail release done right, by modern-day standards, including a bunch of …
Search for the 1985 football sim ‘Bryan Robson‘s Super League’ on Goggle and you‘ll be presented with just two results – a profile page on Spectrum Computing and an entry on Games That Weren‘t. It‘s a game considered ‘missing in action‘ – very little is documented about its existence, to the point where even developer Paul Lamond Games …
The first chart of the year sees little movement, to the point where the no.1s in every single format chart remains unchanged. This means Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the UK’s no.1 for a second week running. FIFA 22 likewise stays put at #2, while Animal Crossing: New Horizons remains at #3. At #4 it’s …
If Back 4 Blood didn’t satisfy that co-op itch, worry not – The Anacrusis is out on Xbox One, Xbox Series and Steam this week, offering similar four-player horde culling thrills. Here, we’re up against aliens and armed with sci-fi weapons, including stasis grenades and energy shields. Intelligent AI controls waves and item placement, promising …
20th January is shaping up to be a corker for indie releases, with arcade revival Windjammers 2, top-down mech shooter/slasher Blackwind, and Kemco’s RPGolf Legends all due. Now we can add another to that list – Pupperazzi, a cross between Pokémon Snap and Nintendogs. It’s heading to PC via Steam, and both Xbox One and …
We certainly didn’t expect this week’s Switch eShop line-up to be this busy. There’s no easily definable major new release – just an eccentric mixture of titles old and new. And they certainly don’t get more eccentric than FlÃ¥klypa Grand Prix. This full price (£49.99) release is based on a Norwegian stop-motion animated film from …
Although inspired by a micro-computer game of yore – 1982’s often ridiculed Spectrum hit Horace Goes Skiing – this homage has a rather arcade-like feel to it. This isn’t necessarily due to its physics engine or polygon visuals, but its limited amount of content and features. With the £5.79 asking price in mind though (just …
This week’s UK physical sales chart takes us to 1st January, revealing Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was the best-selling title between Christmas and New Year’s Day. (Happy new year, by the way.) Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has proven itself to be the ‘go-to’ game for the Switch; the one title almost every owner buys at …
Rewinding back to the void between Christmas and NYE, the PS4, PS5 and Xbox One received a small handful of new releases. The Xbox One gained the low budget footie game Football Cup 2022 – available for under £5 – and the Lost Vikings homage Lost Snowmen, a doubtlessly tricky pixel art puzzle platformer. Then …
The team didn’t just spend the merry month of December wrapping presents, eating mince pies, and watching re-runs of vintage Christmas specials on TV – there was still time for a spot of gaming too. Serious Sam 4 – Matt Earlier this year I played through Shadow Warrior 2 and was left impressed by the …
