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 …
If last week’s Wii U release of Twilight Princess HD didn’t fill you with gooey nostalgia, then perhaps this week’s re-release of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past on New 3DS will. As last week’s surprise Nintendo Direct reported, the New 3DS VC SNES re-releases feature a “perfect pixel” mode allowing them …
Wii U revamp The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD has entered the UK top 40 at #2. The individual format chart shows an even bigger reason for Nintendo to celebrate – it’s #1 here, outselling the PS4 and Xbox One iterations of Far Cry Primal. Obviously, it wasn’t able to better combined sales – …
EA could have easily churned out this sequel post-haste, but has instead opted for the Battlefield treatment – a reasonably lengthy two year break between installments. Development time has been well spent. Pretty much all the faults present in its predecessor have been fixed, while a wealth of new maps, modes and a notably larger …
I came to Firewatch almost completely cold. (No heat-based pun intended, or indeed incoming.) I think that added to my enjoyment, and this contains quite vague spoilers. So I don’t want to discourage you from read it, but… just saying. It’s certainly not a spoiler to say that Firewatch involves making decisions. It’s one of …
Last week treated us to a double whammy of Far Cry Primal and PvZ: Garden Warfare 2. This week is far more modest in comparison – every single retail release is a re-release of some description. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess gets a digital dust off for Wii U, packaged with a fancy amiibo …
Like all good gaming blogs, we try and plan content at least a week in advance. After hearing that Bandai-Namco launched the free Dark Souls inspired Slashy Souls on iOS and Android on Monday, we made a mental note to review it before this week is out. Turns out the fact that it isn’t even …
Rumour has it that the next Zelda will launch on Wii U and NX simultaneously. If this is the case, then the Wii U will end up as one of few Nintendo systems not to receive an exclusive Zelda, spin-off Hyrule Warriors aside. Should Wii U owners feel disgruntled? Perhaps, but the format now has …
Far Cry Primal has bagged Ubisoft their first number one of 2016. It’s the first Far Cry since the 2004 original to launch outside the usually busy Q4 period. How it has performed when compared to previous games in the franchise is unknown, though. Chart-Track does however inform that sales of Plants vs Zombies: Garden …
Survival games are both high in demand and in number at the moment. If you’ve played the majority, then you’ve probably noticed that they don’t tend to be storyline orientated. Usually they begin by explaining the premise – zombie apocalypse/nuclear devastation/popping to the supermarket on Black Friday – and you’re then left to your own …
When the original Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare was announced it provoked a fair amount of eye-rolling. Like many, we expected a generic team-based shooter coated in PvZ decor. But what we received was far beyond that – a fun, accessible and well-balanced shooter with brilliantly designed maps. There was only one small downfall – …
We’ve come full circle – an early Far Cry tech demo, from back when the series was unofficially known as X-Isle, featured huge lumbering dinosaurs. That was in 2002. Skip forward fourteen years, and Far Cry finds itself revisiting its prehistoric roots. No dinos, mind, but plenty of primal rage. The new setting allows for …
Pokémon reaches its 20th anniversary this week. In celebration, the first three Pokémon games – Blue, Red and Yellow – arrive on 3DS Virtual Console. They’ll set you back £8.99 a piece. We recommend Pokémon Yellow over the other two – differences are few, but worthy, including redrawn sprites and additional splashes of colour. We …
Street Fighter V arrives at #2 in the UK chart. A highly respectable position, but it still fell short of bettering Street Fighter IV’s launch week sales. We should note, however, that SFIV launched on three formats compared to SFV’s two (PS4 and PC). Capcom’s latest brawler has been met by critical acclaim. Fans on …
