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 …
Because the charts run a week behind, this week’s UK physical sales chart isn’t the last of 2021, simply taking us up to 25th December. In other words, this is what people were buying in the run-up to the big day. Surprises are few, with four non-movers in the top ten, including the top three: …
This futuristic racer is an indirect sequel to 2019’s Velocity G. It comes from the same developer (repixel8) but is suitably different enough, in terms of new mechanics, that simply slapping a ‘2’ on the tile would no doubt confuse fans of the original. Or at least, lead to a bout of head-scratching. Tunnel racing …
By 1999 the majority of publishers had long decided whether to support the Nintendo 64 or stick with the PlayStation and PC. Helping to mitigate the risk of a flop – the N64 was one of the most expensive consoles to develop for – the publishers that backed the system tended to save their releases …
As is usually the case, several publishers and developers have held their new Switch releases back until the festive reason, simply to get premium placing on the eShop – many younger gamers will no doubt find a shiny new Switch under the Christmas tree this year, and any eShop credit will likely be burning a …
Like countless children across the globe in 1992, I woke on Christmas Day morning to find a copy of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 – arguably the biggest game of the year -under the tree. It wasn’t the all-singing Mega Drive version, however, but rather the 8-bit Master System iteration. No, this wasn’t a mistake on …
Xbox Game Pass has left such an impact on the gaming landscape that we’re starting to see bespoke experiences tailored specially for the service. These tend to be short, narrative-driven, affairs with family-friendly themes – snackable games, if you will. The Gunk is the latest, coming from Image & Form – a studio known to …
Coming as no huge surprise, FIFA 22 has been crowned the UK’s Christmas no.1. What this actually means to EA is another thing – it has been a long time since the publishing giant has shown excitement or gratitude for a festive no.1. It’s merely assumed it’ll be either them or Activision. The record of …
A selection box of treats lies before us this week, albeit only a medium-size one. Not as lavish as a selection box featuring full-size chocolate bars, but more enticing than a small box containing a meagre handful of “fun size†candy. Trust Cadbury to find a way to make Freddos ever smaller. The intriguing 2D …
One of our favourite yearly pursuits is to sit down and glance over everything the past 12 months have given us. As our eyes scroll past chart-toppers, big-budget exclusives and indie darlings, it always becomes apparent there are numerous critically acclaimed titles many have overlooked. A lack of marketing is usually the reason – indie …
A little later than usual, this week’s UK physical retail chart has arrived. The most noteworthy occurrence is that Halo Infinite managed to enter the top five – it debuted at a respectable #4, despite being available on Xbox Game Pass. Forza Horizon 5 had a good week too, climbing from #15 to #11. This …
Yesterday’s Indie World Showcase saw four new games spontaneously appear on the Switch eShop -Dungeon Munchies, Let’s Play! Oink Games, Chicory: A Colorful Tale and Timelie. Dungeon Munchies is a side-scrolling action RPG with a focus on cooking up the spoils of war, which in turn bestows new abilities. Let’s Play! Oink Games follows in the footsteps of the …
Get ready to die, die and die again. Black Country Games’ reIterate() is a modern precision platformer channelling Super Meat Boy and the publisher’s debut release – Quickly, Quackley! reIterate() has been in development since October 2020 – developer Zayne has been chronicling the game’s progress on their Let’s Talk Game Design YouTube channel. Incorporating …
