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 …
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 …
