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 …
Heavy metal and video games go together well. From the synth-guitar riffs of Thunder Force IV, through Rock ‘n’ Roll Racing’s licensed SNES replicas of some classic bangers, to the mighty DOOM’s ‘D_E1M1’ (oh, okay, At Doom’s Gate, if you insist) itself, the genre has been the sonic accompaniment to more than a fair few …
The zombie survival genre needs a shake-up. Thankfully, it looks like DEADCRAFT is about to give it a significant overhaul, coming from First Studio – creators of DAEMON X MACHINA and God Eater 3. Inspiration from the East, who would have thought it? You play as Reid, a half-zombie trying to cling to his humanity after …
The humble Switch could easily run the Xbox 360 version of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, but instead publisher Aspyr has settled on a HD remaster of the Wii iteration. This isn’t as odd as it may sound – the Wii version was tailored to motion controls, adding an exclusive dual-mode and more. Review scores …
Mega Drive/Genesis first-person shooter Zero Tolerance is about to receive a re-release on consoles via PIKO Interactive and QUByte Classics. Originally released in 1993, Zero Tolerance was developed by Technopop – a studio that also created invaluable tools for Genesis developers, working closely with SEGA. As such, they had a very good understanding of how …
One of my favourite films is 1962’s The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. It’s about a young working-class boy sent to a borstal, and his relationship with the governor there, who befriends him and invites him to be on the long-distance running team. It’s a great film, but one that was made in 1962, …
It appears a significant amount of PS5 consoles arrived in the UK last week as several PlayStation exclusives have climbed the physical sales chart. This includes Gran Turismo 7 rising to #2 (previously at #7), Horizon Forbidden West re-entering the top ten at #3 (up 11 places), and Spider-Man: Miles Morales climbing from #24 to …
