All signs point to PS5 consoles being restocked last week – Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart has managed to return to the UK chart top spot, climbing from #6. Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales usually resurfaces following a PS5 restock, but not this week – it dropped one position to #12. Our guess is that only …
If you’re under the impression Codemasters’ Formula One games are earlier every year, then you’re right – the long-running publisher, now under EA’s wing, has found success in launching F1 during the quieter summer months. This year’s release offers a two-player story mode titled Braking Point, and new split-screen multiplayer. The deluxe version launches Tuesday, …
Here’s something you don’t see all that often: A late PSP game which never made it outside of Japan, resurrected on modern formats for an international release. While Sony’s first handheld never quite took off here in Europe, it was huge in Japan. Coming off the back of a Monster Hunter fuelled boom just over …
It took a while, but eventually Capcom won over the west with their long-running Monster Hunter series. If you still aren’t onboard, Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin offers a change of pace to the mainline entries, playing like a traditional JRPG – one with a fun combat system for an easier going experience. Reviews …
Nintendo has ended months of speculation by finally revealing a new Switch model. It isn’t a more powerful system, however, but rather a revision. Nintendo Switch OLED Model, as it’s officially known, boasts a larger 7-inch OLED screen, a new dock with a wired LAN port, a wider adjustable stand for tabletop mode, 64GB of …
Space Jam: A New Legacy – The Game launched on Xbox One last week, available as a free perk for Ultimate Game Pass members. Aside from being a rather brazen promotional tool, there’s one other downside – it’s incredibly short, with a runtime of around 30-40 mins. While it lasts, however, it’s pretty good. What we …
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 …
