Last week’s big name new releases have given the UK retail (boxed) charts a shake-up. Coming as no real surprise, EA Sports FC 26 has scored a no.1 in the all formats top 40. It also took no.1 in the Switch, PS5, PS4 and Xbox Series charts. Last year’s entry is still knocking around the …
The kookie month of October is upon us, meaning we can expect a handful of big-name releases – including the likes of Pokémon Legends: Z-A, Battlefield 6, The Outer Worlds 2 and Ninja Gaiden 4 – along with a glut of Halloween themed games towards the month’s end. Retro fans may also want to look …
Sunrise’s anime series City Hunter is about to celebrate its 40th anniversary, and to coincide the PC Engine’s side-scrolling action game adaptation is being revived. Originally released by Sunsoft in 1990, this re-release is being created in conjunction with Red Art Games and Clouded Leopard Entertainment. It’s based on City Hunter’s first season and sees Tokyo’s …
Red Art Games are bringing back the cult vertical shooter series Psyvariar with a new entry developed by indie outfit Banana Bytes – the team responsible for the positively received moder arcade-style shoot’em up Sophstar. The original games in the series were handled by Tatio and Success in Japan. Due out early 2026, Psyvariar 3 …
Aspyr are taking a break from remastering old Star Wars and Tomb Raider games in order to bring back Eidos’ cult cyberpunk stealth adventure Deus Ex. Deus Ex Remastered sees the first entry in the series – which debuted on PC in 2000 before gaining a PS2 release – revived with improved lighting, dynamic shadows, …
On first glance, nothing seems too innocuous about this remaster. The more I thought about its existence though, the more questions came to light. The good news is that they aren’t the kind of concerns anyone curious should worry about. In fact, the more intrigued you are the better. The original Puzzle Quest dates …
Here comes a new challenger! If it wasn’t for Nintendo’s Switch 2 releases of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, Supergiant Games’ roguelite Hades II would be sitting pretty as the highest rated game of 2025, with its current 95% Metacritic score – formed from dozens of 10/10s – leapfrogging both …
Art of Play, Boat Rocker Studios and the BBC are combining efforts to create a new Danger Mouse game, based largely on the 2015 reboot while featuring hand-drawn/painted visuals to mimic the look of the 1981 series. Crumbs! The storyline is canonical and sees Baron Greenback forcing Danger Mouse and Penfold to re-live their past encounters. …
Welcome to 2008. The heyday of the Xbox 360, and the International Year of the Potato. Obama was also first elected, and Bitcoin was introduced. Amongst all of this, a bizarre indie RPG known as OFF released on the RPG Maker website, entirely in French. A fan translation arrived in 2011 to a Velvet Underground-esque …
Take 2’s Borderlands 4 has been dislodged from the UK retail chart’s top spot by Mario Kart World, consequently preventing it from securing a second week at no.1. The individual format charts tell a different story, as the colourful looter shooter remains no.1 in both PS5 and Xbox Series charts. Borderlands 4 now sits at …
Reviews of the dimension hopping Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds went live late last week and were mostly full of praise, with a few sites rating it higher than Mario Kart World – causing a stir on social media. The Metacritic score currently sits at 83%, including a handful of 9/10s. “Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is a fast, …
This turn-based, story driven, RPG doesn’t just use ‘80s anime as a basis for its art direction but embraces the structure of a typical anime series too. The space travel themed storyline is spread across ten episodes lasting around an hour – give or take ten minutes. Each concludes with a boss fight and a …
Described as a game that’ll remind you to call your nana, magical adventure Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato introduces us to Miho – a young boy transported into a peculiar realm after entering his grandmothers’ pantry. What ensues is a jaunt through South America in search of soup ingredients, spread across rainforests, towns and more while …
This week has been kind to shoot’em up fans, seeing the releases of Platypus Reclayed and Zoe Begone. We can now add the modern Mega Drive/Genesis shoot’em up Earthion to that list – which can be downloaded from today. This horizontal space shooter has been causing a stir since hitting Steam in July, gaining gushingly positive …
It’s an RPG heavy week for the Switch eShop with several time consuming, world saving, adventures due. It’s either the case that publishers were oblivious to one another’s plans, or that the genre is so popular nowadays that there’s the belief all will find an audience. Nihon Falcom’s remake Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter …
