My other half has taught me a lot about cars over the years. I can’t tell you how many we’ve owned in this time – I lost count after the third Mark 4 Golf, the second Audi A3, the two Ford…somethings and the countless others. As he is an appreciator of older cars, things tend …
The first week of the year for new Switch eShop releases isn’t exactly a bad one at all, being busier than anticipated. Sure, the majority are belated conversions, but that’s par the course. We’ll start with Iris.Fall, simply because it’s due a retail release in the coming weeks. It’s a noir puzzle adventure set across …
Ahead of its 28th Jan release date, horror specialists Blooper Team (Blair Witch, Observer: System Redux, Layers of Fear) have released a 14-minute video for The Medium. The Xbox console exclusive promises to be their most ambitious and biggest project yet, arriving as a full-price release. Titular medium Marianne can explore two locations at once – …
Logic and stealth. Two genres I generally avoid because I am neither a logical nor stealthy being. However, I am easily wooed by stunning 4K pixel art and the promise of fiery fun, prompting me to step outside my comfort zone for this ‘ye olde folke’ stealth platformer. Your village is under attack and your …
The final UK chart of 2020 sees Animal Crossing: New Horizons at no.1, up two places from last week. This ushers FIFA 21 – last week’s chart-topper – down to #2. These two games were, incidentally, the UK’s best-selling physical releases of the year. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe dashes to #3, suggesting many gamers received …
Ubisoft was set to capitalise on the quiet month of January with not one but two new releases. Their Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake stumbled at the final hurdle, however, leaving just the much-requested fan favourite Scott Pilgrim vs The World: The Game – Complete Edition. Even without retro royalty (Sands of …
The creators of the FUZE4 Nintendo Switch coding app have compiled a collection of over 20 homebrewed titles, launching this week on the eShop for a mere 89p. Fast Food Dizzy is amongst them, coded by The Oliver Twins themselves during lockdown. “Oh, and don’t be put off by the low price, as many of these …
EA’s FIFA 21 has reclaimed its place at the top of the UK chart, pushing Assassin’s Creed Valhalla – the Christmas no.1 – to #2. The rest of the top ten has merely seen a shuffle with no re-entries to speak of. Animal Crossing: New Horizons climbs from #5 to #3. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe …
All signs pointed to just three new releases in the days leading to Christmas, one of which was some dull Mahjong thing. The release schedules reported as such, and both Sony and Microsoft skipped their weekly new game round-ups in favour of promoting their Xmas sales. But by Friday around fifteen new games had arrived …
There’s arguably a difference between what you do in Art Sqool, and what Art Sqool is. And I think what you get out of it will depend to an unusual degree on what you put into it. Let’s get the facts out of the way: you play as Froshmin, who has just started at Art …
SEGA’s decision to drop the Saturn more than a year before the UK launch of the Dreamcast – giving them little to no presence within Europe during that time – could be seen as a mercy killing. The much-maligned 32-bit system scraped through the first half of 1998 with very few third-party releases, forcing SEGA …
James Pond: Robocod was the rarest of things – a sequel almost indistinguishable from its predecessor. In this case, it was all the better for it – the original James Pond had more than its fair share of shortcomings. The fishy fellow appeared quite gormless and swimming around underwater labyrinths while collecting keys and rescuing lobsters …
Cheese, biscuits, mulled wine, turkey and board games. All things that come to mind when you think of Christmas. But like nan drinking too much mulled wine, or cheese-based trumps, board games can go terribly wrong. Make a poor choice and you get fights over the rules, or suffer the tedium of sitting through a …
When perusing the list of games this accursed year has given us, contenders for overlooked titles were bountiful. However, and regrettably, haven’t played many for ourselves – if we were to cover them here, we’d simply be paraphrasing. So, let us give a noble salute to the eccentric Switch brawler Fight Crab, the PS2-era throwback …
Sometimes Nintendo’s way of thinking is beyond baffling. Take this NES re-release for example. As you’re likely aware, Nintendo has a platform on Switch full of SNES, Famicom and NES games. A handful are added periodically for online subscribers, including Japan-only titles. So, where did Nintendo put this localised re-release of the first-ever Fire Emblem? …
