In what was a slow week for UK game sales, Mario Golf: Super Rush had no trouble maintaining the UK chart top spot. FIFA 21 also held onto #2 for the second week running. The rest of the top ten merely saw a slight shuffle, with the only noteworthy occurrence being Switch launch title Zelda: …
July’s big-name releases are spread thinly, with The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD and F1 2021 Deluxe Edition due next week and then a lull until the likes of Cris Tales, Microsoft Flight Simulator, and Samurai Warriors 5 arrive at the end of the month. This week is quite Switch centric – Nintendo’s platform …
I came to this arcade-style shooter expecting a sense of dread and despair – the artwork, showing hellish crimson backdrops, focuses on the game’s mechanical arachnoid adversaries. All the more surprising to find that the tone is light-hearted, backed by comic-book style presentation. You play as a baseball cap-wearing dogsbody, tasked with blasting metallic bugs …
Neither Destroy All Humans or Disgaea 6: Defiance of Destiny – two of this week’s biggest Switch releases – seem to be going down amazingly well with critics. Destroy All Humans, while still a lot of fun, has a few setbacks with Screen Rant mentioning that it’s prone to crashing. Not exactly the definitive version …
Some ideas are so remarkably obvious they leave you wondering why nobody has thought of them before. Arkan: the dog adventurer fuses arcade-style brick breaking, as seen in Breakout and Arkanoid, with traditional platforming. Our bipedal canine hero is able to double jump around the single screen arenas while returning the ball with his staff, …
Presumably due to the amount of work involved, developers are extremely choosey when it comes to remastering 8-bit games. On the rare occasions when an ‘80s title is plucked from the halls of gaming history and given a modern makeover, they do at least tend to choose the cream of the crop, including such celebrated …
Within moments of starting Monobot, I was drawn into the sci-fi tale that was about to commence. In this surprisingly twee physics-based puzzle platformer, it’s your job to guide the tiny chap through the levels by moving along control platforms, activating mini teleporters, and facing bosses. The story sees Mono woken and set free by …
Nintendo was the winner of this week’s UK chart battle, with new release Mario Golf: Super Rush managing to claim no.1 in the all-formats top 40. It wasn’t the only new arrival. Bandai-Namco’s multiformat action RPG Scarlet Nexus – which boasts an impressive 80% Metacritic – entered at #8. SEGA’s Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 – …
1996’s Space Jam movie tie-in was an unofficial spin-off to the legendary NBA Jam, even reusing the engine from the latest iteration. The upcoming Space Jam: A New Legacy, the long-time-coming sequel, gains a video game adaptation too – a pixel art scrolling brawler that could have leapt straight from 1996. Yep, we’re in retro …
Publisher ININ Games has revealed a 20th July release date for Cotton Reboot, a remake of the Sharp X68000 cutey shooter Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams. Heading to PlayStation 4 and Switch, both digitally and at retail, it sports new features and updated visuals along with Arrange and Score Attack modes. Effectively, the package contains two …
Prior to playing, we had an inkling this horizontal shooter paid homage to Konami’s legendary Parodius. It was the character select screen that gave it away, revealing that the trio of playable canines have their own unique projectile attacks and upgrade paths. Within moments, more similarities come to light, from the bright and vibrant visuals …
The list of publishers behind this week’s Switch eShop assortment reads like a ‘who’s who’ of gaming. There are new titles from Nintendo themselves, Square-Enix, Activision, SEGA, Team17, Outright Games, Merge Games and LEGO. Indie specialists eastasiasoft and Sometimes You have new games out this week too. We can’t forget the little guys. We’re still …
Pierre is an incredibly special detective. He has the ability to find his way through any maze. Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective is a cross between a platformer game and Where’s Wally, with perhaps a dash of Professor Layton. Based on the children’s activity book, each level is a wide and distracting map full …
The UK top 40 isn’t without a few surprises this week. The main takeaway is that the riveting PS5 exclusive Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart has bagged a second week at no.1. At #2 it’s the surprise return of Minecraft Dungeons, which also manages to top the Switch top 20 due to a minor price …
Amazon Prime Day is upon us, and while gaming deals aren’t quite as bountiful as we hoped, there are still a few bargains to be had. We’ve saved you the hassle of scrolling through pages and pages of dubious-looking third-party Switch accessories to bring you the best deals from today. PlayStation 5 PlayStation 5 DualSense …
