The greatest compliment I can give Trek to Yomi is that it looks and feels as if it came from a Japanese development studio. In reality, it was developed by Polish outfit Flying Wild Hog, best known for the Shadow Warrior series. It’s so respectful of the country’s history and culture that some of its …
This week’s UK retail chart is mostly stagnant, with the only new arrival being the belated physical release of Sifu at #9. Published by Maximum Games, the hand-to-hand brawler also claimed #5 in the PS4 chart and a respectable #3 in the PS5 chart. In the top 40, Nintendo Switch Sports rules the roost for a …
It’s easy to see why Evil Dead: The Game has fans in a tizzy – it’s a franchise ideally suited for a video game adaptation, and yet, so few Evil Dead games have been released over the years. Developer Saber Interactive has a decent track record too, responsible for the surprisingly great World War Z. …
Following on from this week’s Redout 2 release date reveal, the merry month of May is about to gain another surprise release – side-scrolling shooter Remote Life, due on the 27th. This bio-mechanical affair, boasting some gruesome enemy designs, is the work of just one man. Expect 16 stages, over 20 weapons, three space crafts, …
At the time of typing, only 15 games are due on the Switch eShop this week – roughly a quarter of the typical amount. Next week puts us back on track, with four(!) JRPGs due. This week we can expect the emotional road trip Best Month Ever – entailing a girl in her late 20s …
If you rented games back in the day, chances are there’s one you hired multiple times. For me, it was Capcom’s Goof Troop for the SNES. It played quite differently from other Disney games, using a top-down perspective, and it featured a jaunty musical score. It was reasonably challenging too, hence why it was rented …
Out of curiosity alone, I recently purchased Cooking Mama Cookstar. The controversy surrounding it made me interested to see how the final product fared – it isn’t every day a big-name release is yanked from the eShop. Turns out it was harmless, if a little soulless. Now, another curious cooking game lies before us – …
Nintendo Switch Sports is the UK’s new no.1. Considering the last major retail release was LEGO Star Wars at the start of April, this doesn’t come as much of a surprise. GI.biz reports launch week sales couldn’t match Wii Sports Resort but were far stronger than Wii Sports Club on Wii U – a game we …
Although May is light on big-name releases – there’s Evil Dead: The Game next week, and then very little until Sniper Elite 5 and Pac-Man Museum at the end of the month – plenty of smaller titles are lined up and vying for your attention. On the agenda for this week, there’s Trek to Yomi …
For all the talk (and there’s a lot of it) present in Pro Wrestling, sometimes, what you actually want is to pick up a dude and slam him repeatedly on a tightly stretched canvas until you can pin him for three seconds. There’s a gladiatorial purity to the spectacle (which I’m hesitant to call a …
It’s one of those weeks where there’s bound to be something on the Switch eShop able to coax money out of your digital wallet – a pleasingly varied assortment of titles covering all genres imaginable, right down to a game where you play as a bar of soap. For sports fans there’s the anticipated Nintendo …
If you’re in charge of the weekly shop, you may have come across boxes of wonky veg – oddly proportioned vegetables that supermarkets once snobbishly shunned. Presumably, it was believed that the vegetable buying public wouldn’t want to eat crooked carrots and peculiar-looking parsnips. The cast of this top-down action-adventure wouldn‘t look out of place …
What’s the difference between so-bad-it’s-good and just plain bad? When do bad voice acting, bad translation, and weird capitalisation choices stop becoming a mistake and start becoming an aesthetic? Hundred Fires brought those questions to mind very quickly. Set in ’60s Cuba, you play as Valero Montenegro, a Cuban mercenary who has more than a …
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is the UK’s number one for the third week running. It’s unlikely to hold the top spot next week, however – Nintendo Switch Sports looks set to become another Switch hit. The UK top 40 saw just one new arrival – MotoGP 22 at #39. The only impact it …
While Nintendo Switch Sports stands zero chance of beating Wii Sports’ sales – which stood at a colossal 86m copies sold at the end of 2017 – it does stand to reason that it’ll become another evergreen seller, notching up impressive sales over time. Slow and steady wins the race. The compendium brings together six …
