The UK chart has finally woken from winter slumber – this week sees four new arrivals in the top ten alone. Battlefield: Hardline manage to prevail over Final Fantasy Type-0 HD in taking the top spot, becoming EA’s first number one of the year in the process. Incidentally, Battlefield 4 had to settle for #2 …
Usually the last Friday of the month sees a slew of new releases, but with next week looking reasonably busy it would appear the likes of EA, Square-Enix and Nintendo have settled for the week before payday. Just like last week’s Ori and the Blind Forest, EA’s Battlefield Hardline is another that was delayed from …
As Rebellion’s own Sniper Elite series proved, it’s entirely possible to centre a whole game on one faultlessly executed idea. That idea was, of course, the gratuitous slow-mo sniper shots. This current-gen only series spin-off retains the grizzly sniper kills but the focus now lies on co-operatively mowing down zombie hordes. Every kill is as …
Nintendo are busy handing out invites for Mario Party 10. By which we mean this: it’s available to purchase in both digital and physical forms from Friday onwards. It’s set to cost £34.99 on the eShop. Hardly an outrageous price (Pikmin 3 was £49.99 if memory serves) but it’s worth baring in mind that physical …
And so the gaming industry finds itself in another ‘catch 22’ situation. Announcements of upcoming remakes and remasters are often greeted by rolling eyes and deep sighs, but if these re-releases continue to sell as well as they do then publishers will carry on dusting off and sprucing up older titles. Case point – Capcom’s …
Frontier’s fascination with rollercoasters continues in ScreamRide, but unlike management sim Rollercoaster Tycoon this isn’t something that’s quite as easy to categorise. ScreamRide’s trio of distinctly different challenge types can easily be broken down and described though, taking the form of on-rails arcade-like racing, sandbox coaster construction and a spot of physics-based destruction. We were …
Ignoring the fact that all of this week’s retail releases are also available in digital form, the week’s downloadable offerings stand proud above the titles heading to store shelves. Ori and the Blind Forest (£15.99) on Xbox One leads the way. The luscious 2D adventure was originally due out towards the end of 2014 but …
We have a combination of Capcom, SEGA and WayForward to thank for this week’s Nintendo eShop price cuts. If none of this week’s new eShop arrivals tickle your fancy, then chances are at least one of the aforementioned publisher’s discounted games will. We’ll cover the new arrivals first. 2D indie adventure The Fall (£6.99) is …
The UK’s top ten has had a shuffle this week with just two titles staying put – Dying Light at #1 and Minecraft: PlayStation Edition at #10. GTA V and FIFA 15 both move up three places to #2 and #3 respectively, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare drops from #2 to #4 and recent chart …
Regular readers will know that we have something of a soft spot for the SEGA Game Gear, having penned numerous 8-bit related features over the past couple of years. It’s one of those formats we could talk about all day long and for reasons aplenty. We aren’t blinkered to the fact that the ageing handheld’s …
Although a fair few new games are out this week, your piggy bank shouldn’t take too much of a pounding as not a single one is being released at full price. We’ll take a look at ScreamRide first because reviews started to appear online as far back as Monday. Developer Frontier has worked on numerous …
2D arcade-like skater OlliOlli may have taken a while to reach other formats since launching on PS Vita over a year ago, but at least it’s arriving on the Nintendo eShop with Wii U/3DS cross-buy support, along with an alluring launch-period discount. From Thursday until 19th March the pixel perfect skateboarding sim (to use a …
Prior to last Friday, the only way to purchase Dying Light was via the download services at a rather extortionate £54.99. Proving that gamers are willing to wait until something is sensibly priced, the belated retail release has shot straight to the top of the UK chart. It’s the third consecutive number one in three …
Capcom’s first foray into episodic gaming doesn’t mess around. During a casual evening event Claire Redfield and her fellow TerraSave terrorist-fighting buddies are confronted by mysterious, gun toting, party crashers. Following the surprise attack, Claire awakens in a disused penal colony with some kind of electronic tag bound to her arm. Dubiously coloured water runs …
We put the lack of fanfare surrounding Kirby and the Rainbow Curse – or Kirby and the Rainbow Paintbrush, as it’ll be known over here – down to the omission of a European release date. It’s pretty hard to get excited about something that could, potentially, be months away. American gamers however have been enjoying …
