Out this week: The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes, The Caligula Effect 2, Disciples: Liberation, Echo Generation, Dying Light (Switch), more

With over twenty new releases on Xbox alone, it’s another busy week for new releases.займ 1000 рублей по паспорту The Dark Pictures Anthology gains its third entry. House of Ashes sees a military unit discover a dark secret buried under a temple, resulting in another dose of horror thrills. It’s due on PS5, PS4, Xbox …

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Gleylancer

This Mega Drive horizontally scrolling space shooter harks back to 1992. It certainly resembles a Mega Drive game from that year, and we don’t necessarily mean that in a bad way. By 1992 developers were starting to push the system, learning new coding tricks in the process. It looks leagues better than earlier launch titles, …

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Disco Elysium – The Final Cut, Crysis Remastered Trilogy, The Good Life, Dungeon Encounters, Monster Crown, and Gleylancer hit the Switch

Nintendo fans have been living the good life lately, thanks to a combination of the excellent Metroid Dread and Tetris Effect: Connected, the OLED Switch, and the promise of 60hz N64 games. банки условия дебетовой карты The good times keep on coming, as this week the Switch gains The Good Life (ho ho!) – a …

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Arcade platformer Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja is making a comeback

Prehistoric platformers were a dime a dozen in the ‘90s, largely due to the popularity of the monster hit Jurassic Park. Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja was one of the better examples, first released in the arcade before heading to most platforms of the era.где оформить ипотеку French publisher Microids is bringing the bone-lobbing duo back near …

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The Eternal Cylinder review

Due to its focus on evolution and survival, I expected ‘The Eternal Cylinder’ to be a metaphor for life and death, much like Disney’s patented (presumably) Circle of Life. It soon transpires that the titular cylinder is a physical object – a colossal, world-spanning, metallic drum that steamrollers its way across an alien world, killing …

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Tetris Effect: Connected (Switch)

Tetris is eternal. Throughout the past three decades, the falling block puzzle game has evolved across a plethora of appearances, many of which have earned their status as all-time classics. From the simple appeal of marathon mode in Tetris DX, to the puzzle trappings of Tetris Plus and Tetris with Cardcaptor Sakura, all the way …

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FIFA 22 fends off four newcomers in this week’s UK chart

There’s no stopping FIFA. Despite the arrival of several new releases, along with the revised OLED Switch, FIFA 22 continues to hold the UK physical chart top spot. Ubisoft’s Far Cry 6 was the best performing new release, claiming #2. The individual format charts show a slightly different picture, with the open-world extravaganza taking no.1 …

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Metroid Dread, Tetris Effect: Connected, Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, Rainbow Billy, Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania, and Toree 2 hit the Switch

If you’re planning to buy a shiny new OLED Switch tomorrow, you’ll find plenty of new releases on the eShop to put it through its paces. And they certainly don’t come much bigger than a new Metroid game. Metroid Dread is up against the legions of Metroidvanias that have launched over the years, yet Mercury Steam …

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1992 Mega Drive shooter Gleylancer gains a re-release next week

Ratalaika Games’ next release is unexpected. Rather than being a pixel art indie game or visual novel, it’s a re-release of the 1992 Mega Drive shooter Gleylancer. You may also know it as Greylancer – the ‘L’ in the word ‘Gley’ was a mistranslation. In this anime-style 2D space shooter, you play as Lucia – …

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Actraiser Renaissance

Arriving on the just-released Super Famicom during the tail-end of 1990, Actraiser’s juxtaposition of side-scrolling action with god simulation put Quintet – a then-new developer formed primarily of Falcom alumni – on the map as a developer unafraid to innovate. This thirty-year-old game saw you in charge of an almighty God, tasked with restoring peace …

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Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania

SEGA’s original early 2000s arcade game Monkey Ball, along with its home console remake, Super Monkey Ball, are both what we like to call “forever games”. Two decades after release and they’ve still yet to outstay their welcome. In true classic SEGA arcade fashion, the games were graced with an incredibly simple concept that was …

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