We remember a time when a new MotoGP would launch the same week as a Tour de France tie-in. Whereas the latter has seemingly fallen out of favour with gamers, MotoGP keeps on going – the latest entry is out on all formats this week, including Switch, featuring 120 riders, 20 circuits, and the chance …
SEGA often dabbled outside of console and arcade games during the ’80s and ’90s. The toy market was particularly enticing, eventually resulting in Yonezawa Toys – Japan’s largest post-war toy manufacturer – being absorbed into the company in 1991. A few years prior, SEGA teamed up with American toy manufacturer Tyco, best known for their …
Considering how ludicrous it looks, Gori: Cuddly Carnage isn’t too tricky to describe. It’s a ‘skate ‘n slasher’ in which a foul-mouthed feline hoverboards around neon-hued environments while dismembering sinister toys. A melting pot of blood, toys, glitter, fur, and cuteness. Or a mixture of Sunset Overdrive and Conker’s Bad Fur Day, if you will. …
Demon Turf – Playtonic Friends’ colourful 3D platformer with 2D characters – has received an inexpensive spin-off, available now on the Switch eShop and Steam for £4.99. Demon Turf: Neon Splash sees Beebz and her friends stuck in a surreal, neon-coloured, painting. It’s a combat-free experience based around speedrunning and traversal, which also allows players …
If you’re looking for something new to play over the long Easter weekend, you may have to alter your perspective on the word ‘new’ – another week of belated conversions and retro releases await the Switch this week. There is a lot of good stuff to get stuck into, mind. From the creators of Guacamelee …
Games entailing buses, trains, and farming have been big business for a while now, and I totally get the appeal. They represent an appeal to our inner child. A way to relive the joys of toy cars and those rugs that had pictures of roads on them. A warm comfort blanket, where our only worries …
Well wookie here – LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has become the UK’s second fastest-selling physical release of 2022 behind Pokémon Legends Arceus. When you consider how busy 2022 has been so far – with big releases including Elden Ring, Horizon Forbidden West, Gran Turismo 7, and Dying Light 2 – it’s an impressive …
The Switch rules the roost this week, with very little of note due either on PSN or the Xbox Store. And even then, the biggest Switch release of the week is simply a belated conversion. Atlus’ sci-fi-themed 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim has been worth the wait, though, with some critics claiming that it’s the best …
The seminal side-scrolling platformer Pac-Land gained an Arcade Archives re-release today. Those with eagle eyes will have spotted that Ms. Pac-Man is looking a little different. Gone is her trademark red bow, replaced with a dashing pink bonnet and matching pink shoes. This alteration is seemingly down to a long-running dispute between AtGames and Namco, …
The Switch gains a trio of big hitters this week, including the timed console exclusive The House of the Dead: Remake. Just like the Panzer Dragoon Remake, it comes from Polish publisher Forever Entertainment, rather than SEGA itself. And just like that game, reviews have been wildly mixed. It’s able to deliver a hit of …
It has been said that the newest Evercade cartridge is a response to fans demanding more obscure and lesser-known games for the retro-centric handheld. We’d say it was inevitable that manufacturer Blaze would have to look further afield at some point. There’s only a finite amount of hand-me-down Atari and NES arcade conversions out there, …
ININ Games’ Taito Milestones is the next retro collection on the agenda, and it’s less than two weeks away – American and European Switch owners can expect it on 15th April. It’s set to provide ten classics from Taito’s vault, and as the name suggests, the collection is intended to be a celebration of milestones …
We’ve seen a few games lately with interesting backstories. There was Yeah Yeah Beebiss II, a sequel to a non-existent NES game, and the Quest for Glory homage Quest for Infamy – a love letter to PC adventure games series that flips the premise on its head. Now here’s Andro Dunos II – a sequel …
Nintendo’s loveable pink blob has claimed a second week at no.1 within the UK all-formats physical chart. With the anticipated LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga out this week, Kirby and the Forgotten Land seems unlikely to bag a third week at the top of the chart. There’s always a chance it will return, though …
When LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga was officially announced during E3 2019, nobody could have guessed it wouldn’t arrive until three years later. Then again, nobody could have predicted a global pandemic either. Not only has Covid held up the project but getting to grips with a new engine too. At the time of …
