We have YouTube to thank for The Shape of Things. No, it isn’t endorsed by a channel or an online personality – it owes its existence to the popularity of ASMR videos. It’s not much of a surprise to find that the developers recommend playing with headphones. The Switch is also the ideal platform for …
Depending on how you look at it – or perhaps how deep your pockets are – it’s the busiest week for new releases in yonks. Why the ambiguity? Well, Starfield and Baldur’s Gate 3 are technically out this week, but only if you cough up for their premium and deluxe editions. These aren’t cheap. Starfield …
In the heart of the cosmos, nestled on a remote asteroid shrouded in the velvety embrace of space, resides Fortuna, an enigmatic witch exiled for a millennium. Her transgression? A forbidden prophecy of her coven’s downfall unveiled through the mystique of divination — the timeless art of reading tarot cards. Condemned to eternal isolation, she …
Nightdive Studios has confirmed that work on a Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion remaster is well underway, ahead of a November 14th launch on all formats. First released on N64 in space year 2000 – and never re-released since – the story sees dual protagonists Joseph and Danielle Fireseed battle Oblivion and his followers, known as …
Gamescom is currently underway, meaning PR folk, developers, and journalists are all busy either showing off their new titles or covering them. Or perhaps stuck at an airport. This appears to have impacted this week’s assortment of new Switch eShop titles, with fewer games than usual. There’s still plenty to mull over though – and …
We’re surprised that we haven’t heard much news of new plug ‘n play or mini consoles lined-up for the lucrative Christmas period. Then again, SEGA and Nintendo seemed to have stepped back from this market, and the Evercade has managed to generate its own loyal user base over the years. Atari is still willing to …
The evergreen Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – a game almost as old as the Switch itself – was the best-selling retail release in the UK last week. We imagine the Switch proving a popular summer holiday travel accessory was the reason. At #2 it’s another evergreen title – the ten-year-old GTA V. This appears to …
Do you ever have a hankering for Fortnite but find yourself dissuaded by the thought of delinquent children screaming, burping, and farting into a mic headset? Publisher PQube has a solution – a colourful third-person shooter, mimicking the look and feel of Fortnite, only it’s single player. The only voices you’ll be hearing while playing …
Last weekend we started working on a feature detailing the vast number of publishers who’ve handled the long-running Armored Core series. Partway through, though, we noticed it wasn’t amounting to much more than a glorified list – prompting a swift push of the ‘delete’ key. It was at least surprising to find just how many …
PLAYISM will be publishing 34EVERLAST – a ten-minute “super condensed” action game that’s “specially designed for busy working adults.” This Unreal Engine powered affair sees the world ending…only, you’re somehow caught in a loop. It mixes combat, action adventure, boss battles, and escape room sensibility to create something with 30+ routes to find and explore …
The original Fight Crab is a game we’ve been wanting to try for a while, but have never found the opportunity to. We’d best hurry as a sequel has just been announced. Or we could just wait for that, we guess. The concept is pleasingly simple – giant crabs duke it out, clutching all manner …
GameMill’s winter line-up is looking quite busy, with Skull Island: Rise of Kong, Avatar: The Last Airbender – Quest for Balance, NASCAR Arcade Rush, and Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 due. Now we can add The Walking Dead: Destinies to that last. Ah, licensed games. It’s enough to remind us of the olden days. The Walking Dead: …
Goose Byte’s debut title sees humanity take to the skies to find a new home. By combining exploration, invention, and survival, it hopes to move the multiplayer open world genre forward – a bold claim. Powered by the uber-flashy Unreal Engine 5, The Signal is said to be an accessible affair, offering a new recipe-sharing …
Developers certainly have their work cut out when it comes to bringing complex strategic games to consoles. A PC set-up offers the luxury of a keyboard and mouse with hotkeys, shortcuts, intuitive mouse scrolling, and more. Reconfiguring a multitude of button inputs to a joypad can be a tricky, but not impossible, task. Gord’s developers …
We’ve been here before. No, not the fact that Dust & Neon is a former Switch exclusive making its way to new formats, but rather the concept of robots in the wild west. Both 1994’s Wild Guns and the popular SteamWorld series use this premise, along with the occasional episode of Futurama – all of …
