Publishers are falling over themselves to get new releases out this week, with plenty of big titles arriving on Switch. Nintendo begins to roll out their autumn line-up too, with a physical release of Game Builder Garage, and WarioWare: Get It Together – the first WarioWare package to grace the Switch. The series has seen …
Late last year, Triangle Studios gave the world Slide Stars – a wet ‘n mild obstacle course-style party game starring real-life YouTubers and Vloggers. Think Trials HD, only with log flumes and novelty inflatables. The ideas it presented failed to mesh – events weren’t particularly chaotic or comical, and because characters were mute throughout it …
It must have been a slow week for UK game sales – Minecraft on Switch, which has occupied the all-formats top 40 for some 160 weeks already, returned to no.1. This isn’t entirely out of the blue. A few weeks ago, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, which launched mere months after the Switch itself, also reclaimed …
This week’s new release round-up has been bothersome to compile, simply because publishers can’t settle on a single date. Sonic Colours: Ultimate was available Friday for those who purchased the deluxe edition, while the standard edition is out this week. Hoping to purchase the retail release? That’s now out in October due to a manufacturing …
Roguelikes are tricky beasts. They take a certain amount of resilience to take on. With highly randomised elements they can be fun after obtaining items that synergise well, or your YouTube-worthy controller smashing moment as you take that disastrous final hit which ends the run far too soon. You die – a lot, essentially with …
Islanders looks like a city sim, it plays like a puzzle game, and might just be a comment on class politics and land use in the modern world. What’s not to like? You start with a procedurally generated island, a beautiful little thing, to survey, to see how things might play out. Pick one of …
Beyond a Steel Sky once again brings together Broken Sword series creator Charles Cecil and art by Dave Gibbons – the renowned artist behind Watchmen. As the name suggests, it’s a successor to the 1994 sci-fi point ‘n clicker Beneath a Steel Sky. The latest trailer just dropped, revealing a 30th November release date for …
The Switch goes toe-to-toe with Xbox One and PS4 this week, gaining almost every new big-name release, along with a few surprises. Hello, tropical island survival game Stranded Deep. From Bandai-Namco there’s Family Trainer (aka Active Life), part of the long running series of fitness-based mini-game collections. This 15-strong compilation has been a long time …
Alveole is intriguing. It drops you in a giant hamster wheel, gives you the absolute minimum of instruction, then leaves you to get on with it. And ‘it’ is pretty limited: all you can do is start running, and once you’ve started running, all you can do is jump. From there it’s about working out …
Especially if we factor in digital sales, Aliens: Fireteam Elite can likely be considered a success – it’s the UK’s no.1 this week, taking over from Sony’s Ghost of Tshushima: Director’s Cut. No More Heroes III settles for #16. The Switch top 20 paints a slightly rosier picture, where the boss rush hack ‘n slasher …
A weird and wonderful assortment of new games lies before us this week, with plenty to tempt. A good reminder of how vast the gaming spectrum has become nowadays, we’d say. Roll up, roll up, and witness KeyWe– a co-op adventure where two kiwis are tasked with keeping a mailroom ticking over – the surprisingly …
Our weekly eShop round-up is running a little late, simply because we were waiting on The Magnificent Trufflepigs and Spleunky 1 & 2 to drop. Their releases dates were somewhat vague, but rest assured all three are now available. The Magnificent Trufflepigs is a metal-detecting narrative-heavy adventure from the designer of Everybody’s Gone to the …
2021 seems like a strange time to release a game based on the career of Pop Idol bronze medallist Darius Danesh. Whilst he’s had great success in musicals, he hasn’t been a mainstream concern since 2002’s Colourblind… [Actually, Dariusburst Another Chronicle EX+ the latest in Taito’s long-running Darius series of horizontal shooters. – Ed] *Cough* …
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Saber Interactive should consider itself flattered. Aliens: Fireteam Elite builds upon the groundwork laid by Saber for their belated World War Z tie-in, adapting it to fit the confines of the Aliens franchise. Like a facehugger wrapped around your windpipe, it’s a snug fit. That’s the good …
This week’s UK chart comes courtesy of GamesIndustry.biz, who earlier today revealed that Sony rules the roost in the current all-formats top 40. The top three positions in the retail chart are held by PlayStation exclusives, with new release Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut taking the top spot. 91% of sales were for the PS5 …
