It’s a slightly more subdued week for the Switch than usual, with many of the more noteworthy releases being belated conversions. Some may have passed you by first time round, so don’t go hitting the ‘back’ button on your browser just yet. On the more obscure side of things, there’s 80 Days and One Night …
The evenings are drawing in, which means ‘big game season’ is upon us. Right on cue, not one, not two, but three spare time-draining ‘live service’ games are upon us this week, catering for all budgets. Destiny 2: New Light is the new free entry point for the series, launching alongside the £29.99 Destiny 2: …
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines is a game with a name as convoluted as its development. Less convoluted, however, is its impact and legacy. Some of you may not know this, but for a grueling 15-year period until Paradox announced the sequel to the 2004 sleeper hit, vampire-loving RPG fans had to salvage and endure …
FIFA 20 has become the fastest-selling new release of 2019, outperforming previous record holder Borderlands 3 by some margin. This doesn’t come as much of a surprise – not even the almighty Red Dead Redemption 2 could beat FIFA 19’s launch week sales. But there’s a slight twist in this tale. Although FIFA 20’s physical …
Top-down space shooter Stellatum makes the jump from PC to consoles next month, arriving 9th October on PS4, Xbox One, and Switch. We’ve spent an hour with the Xbox One version (footage below) and early impressions are favourable, drawing comparisons with the excellent Sky Force Anniversary. The main campaign features 80 bite-sized missions spread across …
Square-Enix clearly hopes your purse strings are loose this week, launching no less than four Dragon Quest games on the eShop – the ‘definitive edition’ of Dragon Quest XI and a re-release of the original NES ‘Erdrick’ trilogy. The first DQ will only set you back a modest £3.99, whereas DQ2 and DQ3 are priced £5.35 …
Konami clearly wanted Contra: Rogue Corps to please everyone, yet it has ended up failing to please anyone at all. It takes plenty of well-worn ideas from similar twin-stick shooters to form an uneven package that’s lacking identity, and that’s despite one of the new playable characters being a panda. The shooter revival arrived to …
Coming as a surprise to absolutely no one, the highly anticipated The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening had no trouble topping the UK chart. However, we were surprised to see the Maximum Games-published Truck Driver debut at #11. The lack of Euro Truck Simulator on consoles presumably fuelled demand. We’re even more surprised to find …
It’s strange to think that one of the biggest Switch releases of the year is an 8-bit Game Boy remake. Then again, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening wasn’t your typical Game Boy game – it was one of the handheld’s finest, cramming a console-quality adventure into a cartridge the size of an After Eight. …
Due to the arrival of the Switch Lite, publishers are falling over themselves to get their latest releases on the eShop. It may even be the biggest week the Switch has ever seen. The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, and Ni No Kuni Remastered lead the way – two very different role-players. Reviews of Ni …
Steve Jobs caught lightning in a bottle when creating Atari’s arcade hit Breakout, taking something as simple as Pong and adding a compelling twist. Some forty years later, breaking blocks with a paddle remains an inviting mechanic, the draw and desire to clear the board – potentially with one well-placed shot – forever burning strong. …
The Switch receives its inevitable mid-cycle revamp this week, in the form of the £200 Switch Lite. The handheld only…handheld arrives alongside a slew of new software including The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening and Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered, along with the eShop only Castle Crashers Remastered, Untitled Goose Game, …
2K Games are on a roll. Last week NBA 2K20 topped the UK chart, becoming the first-ever basketball game to do so. Borderlands 3 replaces it this week, outperforming previous 2019 biggest seller Days Gone to become the fastest-selling physical release of the year so far. With FIFA 20 on the horizon, it may not …
Mech shooters tend to appeal only to a small demographic, which is perhaps why Nintendo was able to justify sandwiching DAEMON X MACHINA between Astral Chain and next week’s highly anticipated Zelda: Link’s Awakening remake. Fans of Armored Core and similar mech shooters have no doubt had it on their radar since the E3 reveal. …
Rather than provide Borderlands 3 review code to all and sundry, 2K has only let a select handful of critics loose on the eagerly awaited loot shooter. And even then, it was restricted to the PC version, which Kotaku reports was a work in progress build prone to crashing. 2K claims this was down to …
