Over the past few months prolific indie publisher Ratalaika has been re-releasing games in the 16-bit platformer series Aero The Acro-Bat, including spin-off Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel. We’ve duly arrived at the last entry in the franchise, and it’s something of a departure. Whereas the previous games were for Mega Drive and SNES, Aero The Acro-Bat: …
It seems not a single publisher was worried about the newest Call of Duty potentially harming sales, with several big-name titles launching the same week as Black Ops 6. Even more amusing, then, to see that few publishers deem themselves worthy to go up against the Switch’s big winter title Mario & Luigi: Brothership, with …
A snow coated cyberpunk city provides the backdrop for this top-down twin-stick shooter. Although our gruff private investigator protagonist Yanus – who has a penchant for strong liquor, along with anything else he can get his hands on – carries a machine gun, I don’t think we’ll be debating whether SlavicPunk: Oldtimer is a Christmas …
A few generations ago horror games were seldom seen, especially on Nintendo platforms. Even something low budget such as Cursed Mountain – a forgotten survival horror from 2009, published by a fledgling Deep Silver – gained a reasonable amount of press coverage, at least during launch week. Skip forward some fifteen years later, and things …
The UK retail top 40 sees a handful of new arrivals this week, some of which are a tad unexpected. Coming as no real surprise, the well-received (at least by the press) Dragon Age: The Veilguard managed to enter at #3, with EA’s own EA Sports FC 25 remaining at #2 and Call of Duty: …
With so many horror games launching last week, it was perhaps wise for Bokeh to hold Slitterhead back until after Halloween. Set in Kowlong, this almost full price (£49.99) survival horror adventure involves defending a neon lit city from parasitic beings known as Slitterheads, who disguise themselves as humans. As an entity devoid of a physical …
In September, the retro collection Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration received its first paid DLC, The Wider World of Atari. Next week (8th Nov) the second piece of paid DLC launches, featuring another 19 games. The First Console War, as it’s known, details the battle between the Atari 2600 and Mattel’s Intellivision through a new …
QUByte Interactive are currently wrapping up their annual digital event, during which the indie publisher revealed a handful of new titles and updates to existing ones. Some of these titles were revealed a while ago, including a console release of the N64 platformer Glover and the unique survival horror Saborus – which sees a chicken trying …
Konami’s scrolling arcade beat’em ups from the ‘90s are well documented online, with countless ‘let’s play’ videos available on YouTube and full written histories for certain key entries. Some of these games are even playable on modern consoles, with the likes of Turtles in Time and its predecessor gaining re-releases via The Cowabunga Collection. Nowadays …
Perfectly timed for Halloween, the Sometimes You published horror romp Self-Delusion has launched on the digital services for just over a tenner. We’ve spent some time with it, and it’s certainly an oddity. This isn’t so much a horror adventure or a narrative driven affair, but rather a peculiar survival game based on Slavic folklore. …
Several developers are currently working on the next evolution of Vampire Survivors-style auto shooters, aiming to refined, expand, and put their own stamp on the genre. The creators of Vampire Hunters are arguably ahead of the curve, presenting the world with a first-person roguelike auto-shooter in which our hero carries numerous weapons at once, populating …
Nintendo’s big winter release, Mario & Luigi: Brothership, is barely a week away. If you’re looking for something to play in the meantime, this week’s assortment of new Switch eShop releases has you covered. Just in time for Halloween, there’s the reasonably priced (£19.99) Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered, which includes new skins and …
It looks like we’re in for some retro action this December, with TAITO Milestones 3 set to launch on 10th Dec. This is, as it happens, the same day the scrolling beat’em up Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind is out. A potentially expensive day for retro diehards! TAITO Milestones 3 is due both digitally …
Rebellion has released a surprise revival of the Bitmap Brothers’ futuristic sports game Speedball – something of an icon when it comes to UK gaming history, closely associated with the Amiga in particular. Speedball is available now in early access on PC for £14.99/$17.99. Taking place in 2138, it sees two teams of cybernetically augmented players …
Last week saw a battle between Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and SEGA’s Sonic X Shadow Generations at retail. Despite not being available on Switch, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 was the biggest-selling of the two, effortlessly topping the UK’s top 40 retail chart. The Activision publisher shooter also took no.1 in the …
