Games Asylum is 15 years old this weekend, which means we can finally watch Die Hard. Yippee ki-yay indeed, melon farmers. Much has changed since 2001, so to wish ourselves a very bloody happy birthday, here are eight things that didn’t exist 15 years ago when we started this nonsense. 1. Motion control The first …
Considering the Easter weekend is almost upon us, this week isn’t quite as jam packed with new releases as we expected. We are being treated to a of trio pleasant surprises however, with Rockstar to thank for two – PS4 re-releases of Bully and Manhunt. As well as a 1080p up-scaling, they also feature Trophies …
WayForward has developed many mediocre games over the years, yet they remain one of our favourite studios. It’s their quick turnaround TV/movie tie-ins that prevent the company from having a glowing track record, and this is something entirely forgivable – all work on licensed tat helps to fund their own IPs. If it wasn’t for …
Nintendo themselves supply the bulk of content for this week’s eShop line-up, with only two new Wii U eShop releases coming from indie developers. Those two are Wales Interactive’s first-person auto-runner Infinity Runner (£5.89) and WayForward’s DSi remake Shantae: Risky’s Revenge Director’s Cut (£6.99). We’ve played Infinity Runner on Xbox One and wasn’t too impressed …
Tom Clancy’s The Division – our review of which is now up – remains the UK’s number one for a second week. Unsurprising. Both EA Sports UFC 2 and Pokken Tournament put in a very good showing though, arriving at #2 and #3 respectively. Sales of UFC 2 were up 53% over the previous iteration. …
We know exactly why you’re here, so let’s skip the chase and give our verdict on Ubisoft’s ambitious open-world shooter within this opening paragraph. It certainly doesn’t reinvent the third-person shooting genre, with lots of well-worn tropes on display. It isn’t merely Watch_Dogs in a Tom Clancy skin however, for which we should be thankful. …
This week sees the release of three very different fighting games – EA Sports UFC 2, the Wii U’s Tekken-alike Pokken Tournament and the raunchy Senran Kagura Estival Versus. They’re the only retail releases due out until next week’s Easter rush, so we hope you’re up for a bout of fisticuffs. Reviews of all three …
Games with an environmental theme were rife in the ‘90s. We can probably attribute this to the runaway success of Captain Planet, which too had its own obligatory video game tie-in. After a lengthy hiatus, not one but two games centred upon saving ‘Mother Earth’ arrived within the same week – colourful tower-defence shooter McDroid …
Miko Mole has been likened to such classics as Dig Dug, Boulder Dash and Pac-Man. While not entirely illogical comparisons, it’s a bit like comparing The Beano to 2000 AD, or ChuckleVision to Ricky Gervais’ Extras – the mediums are the same but all other similarities are merely fleeting. This was the first console release …
For quite some time first-party releases on the Wii U eShop have launched at a not entirely unreasonable £39.99. The last we recall launching at £49.99 was in fact 2014’s Mario Kart 8. As such, we were surprised to discover that this Friday’s Pokken Tournament is arriving at a penny shy of fifty quid. We’d …
Coming as a surprise to no one, Tom Clancy’s The Division is the UK’s new number one. The surprise lies within just how well it has performed. Breaking an 11 year record held by Gran Turismo 4, it has become the biggest ever Q1 launch. Or to reiterate, it has outsold all other titles released …
It’s perfectly acceptable for a game to be simplistic. The likes of Tetris, Space Invaders and Pac-Man are timeless classics one and all, despite their basic nature. Nnooo’s Blast ‘Em Bunnies takes one of the most basic ideas around – first-person turret shooting, as briefly seen in just about every FPS ever made – and …
Everything in this exceedingly colourful tower defence shooter has something to say. The deployable turrets call out for repair when damaged, the shuttle that ferries the unlikely hero from one area is something of a smooth talker, and even the planet itself occasionally chimes in with words of praise and encouragement. The only thing that …
There’s only one big name title willing to go against Ubisoft’s eagerly awaited Tom Clancy’s The Division, and that’s Square-Enix’s Hitman. Or to be more precise, roughly half of Hitman – this time round the series is being given the episodic approach. Cause for concern is understandable, but if the developers accomplish what they set …
Nine months ago Phil Busuttil and David Thatcher departed UK-based Ninja Theory – of Enslaved and DmC: Devil May Cry fame – to form the two-man indie team TriCat Games. Now that their first game – though not the game they started developing first, but we’ll come to that – R.A.B.B.i.T (Rope Assisted Ballistic Bunny …
