THQ Nordic may have picked a quiet week to launch Darksiders III, but that hasn’t helped it to fly off shelves – the long-awaited follow up enters the UK top 40 at a miserable #32. There is a chance that the digital version has picked up some slack, however, as the Fury Edition featured all …
While it’s true that most weekly eShop line-ups have a retro twist, this week’s line-up of new releases is so heavily loaded with nostalgia that we were almost tempted to add a florescent bumbag to our Christmas list. Hoping to transport you back to the ‘80s and ‘90s are the incredibly slick retro racer Horizon …
There’s nothing better than a good bedtime story. When I was a young bairn I used to sit under the blankets at night and read with a torch. As the nights get longer and colder, snuggling up with a good bedtime story is essential. NAIRI is a great bedtime story. NAIRI tells the story of …
The popularity of Maxis’ 1989 classic SimCity allowed the American developer to take their flagship brand in new directions. Clearly trying to replicate the success of SimCity, between 1989 and 2000 fifteen different titles under the ‘Sim’ banner were released. One of the more successful endeavours was SimTower, praised for being “homelier and more personal†…
The Black Friday sales have given the UK chart a shake-up. In short: lots of new consoles were purchased last week, helping popular PS4 pack-in FIFA 19 reclaim no.1. A minor price drop for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 sees it rise from #7 to #2, while Red Dead Redemption 2 – which wasn’t …
THQ Nordic has picked the perfect week to release the long-awaited Darksiders III – the only other major new release out is RIDE 3, a motorbike racer that’s arguably an acquired taste. Unfortunately, it appears development of Darksiders III was rushed in order to get it out the door before 2018 comes to an end. …
There’s something to be said for the gentler pursuits in life. Like having a nice sit – what could be better? But gentle can also be pointless, like Radio 4 sitcoms. Which is Mimpi Dreams? LET’S FIND OUT. (An attempt at building tension, there. Not desperately easy in a review of a Switch conversion of …
Turns out those Gold Points you get for registering Switch games expire after a year. At least Nintendo had the good grace to tell me. So: what can I get with £1.16? Well, it changes pretty frequently, because it’s mostly games with massive discounts on a usual price of a few quid. When I spent …
Raptor proof your doors – we’re going to be streaming Telltale’s Jurassic Park: The Game on Mixer tomorrow (Saturday 24th November), starting around 11am. It can, allegedly, be finished in around 5-6 hours so we’re aiming for a complete playthrough. We’ll be using a mic, so feel free to pop along for a chinwag. Never …
Indie releases rule the roost on the Switch eShop this week, as for a second week running the full-price retail releases are of questionable quality. Panda Hero resembles a mobile 2D platformer yet it launches with a £26.99 price tag, while Moto Racer 4 was hardly hot stuff back in 2017. We’re still waiting on …
Some hangover sufferers struggle with a trip to the local shop, so we can only imagine how Fallout 76’s intrepid vault dweller feels. After waking in an empty vault following one heck of a party, they’re tasked with rebuilding and restoring West Virginia to its former glory, working alongside a group of other carefully selected …
Judging by this week’s assortment of new games, Black Friday has such a big impact on the gaming world that publishers try to avoid launching new releases. EA’s Battlefield V – which arrived last week via the fancy pants £79.99 edition – is the biggest release and by some margin, available now to all and …
In a battle between Activision’s purple dragon and Nintendo’s cute critters, it was Activision that emerged triumphant – Spyro Reignited Trilogy, which we reviewed yesterday, is the UK’s new no.1. Or it is? Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu debuted at #4 while Pokemon Let’s Go Eevee claimed #6. If sales of the two were combined, it …
All it took for Activision to finally cave-in and revive both Crash and Spyro was for one of their multi-million-dollar franchises to crash and burn. That franchise was, of course, the toys-to-life phenomenon Skylanders. So, before we go any further, let’s thank all the parents who refused to buy into Skylanders for a fifth year …
When compiling our multi-format new release round-ups we observed publishers and indie developers keeping their releases away from such big hitters as Red Dead 2, Black Ops 4, and AC Odyssey. Over in camp Nintendo, it appears nobody wants to get in the way of the almighty Pokemon – there’s roughly half the amount of …
