Almost by default, futuristic racers are lustrous things. For this, we can thank a combination of exhilarating speeds, curvaceous and desirable vehicles, rollercoaster-style courses, and speaker warbling soundtracks. It’s no surprise that numerous consoles launched with a futuristic racer – they’re ideal showpieces. Repixel8’s Gravity Chase ticks most of those boxes. Vehicles get up to …
Even as a stupid teenager I could tell Data East’s disc-flinging Windjammers was a special game. The Day-Glo colours, hyperactive pace, and novel premise made it stand out from other arcade games. It has aged gracefully too, so it’s no surprise DotEmu has swept in to create a sequel. We can expect hand-drawn graphics reminiscent …
Labyrinth Legend is an early entry into the 2022 competition for World’s Most Generic Game Title, and it revels in following that genericness down to the gameplay. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. It’s an isometric 2D pixel art action-RPG dungeon crawler, a sentence more complicated than the actual moment to moment action is. Pick …
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 …
