Since purchasing the leftovers of Acclaim’s estate in 2006 Canadian studio Throwback Entertainment hasn’t really done a great deal with the ex-publisher’s portfolio. The rights to RC racer Re-Volt were sold off to Korean publisher We Go Interactive in 2011 but other than this Throwback has simply focused their attention on their own mobile titles. …
Due to a dearth of big name releases store shelves have been rather stagnant of late. Expect to see some new faces come Friday though as this week sees eight new titles head to retail. By our reckoning, anyway. Even Wii U owners have something to dash out and purchase – the (mostly) well-received Kirby …
NetherRealm’s disturbingly brutal brawler is the UK’s number one for a third consecutive week. Just one more week is needed to topple Battlefield Hardline’s record of four weeks straight – the longest a game has dominated the top spot so far this year. With a 32% dip in sales and the anticipated Project CARS out …
You’d think this week would be chock-a-block with new releases – not only is it payday for the vast majority but there’s a long weekend ahead of us as well. But no – just two titles are heading to retail – Idea Factory’s Omega Quintet on PS4 and an Essentials re-release of Red Dead Redemption: …
It’s pointless in giving Happy Wars on Xbox One the review treatment as it’s a standard, no-thrills conversion. That’s to say, there’s very little in the way of notable enhancements – the visuals have had a filter applied, coating the landscapes in a gentle haze, and the menus appear to have been spruced up, but …
Treasure’s Sin and Punishment: Successor of the Skies makes its way to Wii U this Thursday. If you’re a fan of shooters then it’s something of a no-brainer, especially seeing that the Wii U’s library is hardly overflowing with examples of the genre. It’ll only set you back £13.49 until 7th May too. After that …
With just one new game out last week, it’s no surprise to find that this week’s UK chart lies dormant. That new release was Tropico 5 on PS4, which managed to enter at #18 in the top 40 and #7 in the PS4 chart. Mortal Kombat X is still king of the castle, making it …
Mexican racer El Chavo Kart isn’t the only obscure import to make a recent surprise appearance on the Xbox 360’s ‘Games on Demand’ service. This week saw the unexpected arrival of Japanese oddity Shooting Love 200X – a Triangle Service shump collection from 2009. As fans of the genre will know, it has been a …
It’s another quiet week for retail releases. Ignoring a ‘Xbox Classics’ re-release of LEGO Lord of the Rings on Xbox 360, there’s just one new physical release – city building sim Tropico 5 on PS4. It originally due out months ago but you can rest assured that it’s finally out on Friday. We expected big …
Goats will eat anything. Although I knew they were partial to the odd baseball cap or whatever else falls into their pen down at the petting zoo, I didn’t believe this for myself until watching one of those American obsessive hoarder documentaries. What set this episode apart from others is that the hoarder’s house was …
Nintendo usually issues their eShop line-up on a Monday morning, but for whatever reason yesterday came and went without. In instances like this we always wonder what the holdup was. Did an eShop release get delayed at the very last second? Are Nintendo still debating internally about what VC games to release this week? We …
Battlefield: Hardline has been knocked off the UK chart top spot by Mortal Kombat X. Knocked into a vat of boiling acid, presumably. Warner Bros. must be pleased – it had the biggest ever launch for a Mortal Kombat title, and also the second biggest launch of the year so far behind Battlefield. And that’s …
While in a charity shop earlier today my attention was drawn to a box of reduced books. The 1993 gaming joke book Mirthful Kombat was perched on top of the pile. Price? A measly 10p. I felt guilty spending so little in one transaction that I threw a few extra coins in the charity box …
We’re far from being prude here at Games Asylum, but having watched a Mortal Kombat X fatality reel earlier this week we were left thinking that NetherRealm’s latest pushes the boundaries of acceptability somewhat. Long ago, fatalities in MK games were mostly crass – dropping an arcade cabinet onto a hapless foe’s head, and such …
Whereas many games will be nearing their conclusion once they hit the ten hour mark, Neverwinter sees only the surfaced scratched. As a fully comprehensive MMORPG – the kind consoles have only received in a butchered state in the past (Defiance and Ascend: Hand of Kul spring to mind) – it was always a given …
