The sights and sounds (maybe even the smells) emanating from an old timely inn must be beyond compare. Imagine the mixture of gallant soldiers returning from or heading to war, a rotation of ladies of the night, flea-bitten beggars, and wanted men or varying notoriety passing through the doors. Rather than lean into the aspect …
There’s a new entry within the UK all formats top five, and it’s one you may not have seen coming. The Sims 4: Lovestruck swooned in at #2 in the retail chart, with Hogwarts Legacy holding onto no.1. The rest of the top ten mostly remains unchanged. EA Sports FC 24 dropped to #3, Mario …
A new month is (almost) us. August isn’t looking too shabby for new releases, offering plenty of variety. Next week gives us Konami’s shoot’em up CYGNI: All Guns Blazing, pixel art action platformer Volgarr the Viking II, and the nautical adventure SteamWorld Heist II. Then towards the end of the month, there’s Quantic Dream’s Dustborn, …
Well, this is uncanny. This school management sim bears a startling resemblance to Two Point Campus, especially when it comes to planning and decorating rooms. Be sure to add a window and a radiator, along with a plant or rubbish bin. Indeed, certain aspects are almost identical – it’s just like revisiting Two Point Campus, …
This short top-down 2D adventure game is styled like an original Game Boy title. You play as the eponymous Cat, as it tries to brighten the boy’s mood following his parent’s divorce. It’s clearly a very personal tale to the solo developer behind the project. The Cat, called Midnight, wanders around the house and interacts …
What we initially believed was a quiet week for the eShop has somehow turned out to be busier than anticipated. I think we can be forgiven for thinking F1 Manager 2024 was skipping Switch though. There’s even another first-party title on the agenda. The New Denpa Men doesn’t appear to be classed as a banner …
Where does your soul live? Philosophers and theologians have grappled with the question since ancient times, but SCHiM knows the answer: it’s in your shadow, and it’s called a schim. What’s more, if you lose it, you’re going to have a pretty bleak time. That exact calamity befalls your human early in the game, and …
After recently appearing on the Nintendo 64 (along with the likes of the Neo Geo, Dreamcast, GameCube, SNES and Mega Drive before that) Bitmap Bureau’s alien blitzing top-down shooter Xeno Crisis is about to crawl onto GBA. The trailer (below) suggests that the handheld’s screen size has resulted in the action being more zoomed in …
The top three positions in the UK retail chart remain unchanged this week despite Amazon Prime Day 2024 causing numerous games to climb and re-enter the top 40. This means Hogwarts Legacy is no.1 for another week, this time topping the Switch chart too. EA Sports FC 24 held onto #2, while Luigi’s Mansion 2 …
After establishing a new eatery in town, Flora is out to make a name for herself. In addition to being creative when it comes to cuisine, she’s also a fledgling witch keen to learn the ways of brewing magical elixirs. Fortunately, an opportunity to become an understudy soon arises, with Flora’s arrival piquing the interest …
EDF! EDF! EDF! After a slight delay, D3’s schlocky sci-fi shooter Earth Defence Force 6 finally lands on PS4 and PS5 this week. The press release suggests we’re in for a fun if familiar time, with a bunch of new weapons to discover and a long list of missions to tackle. The story takes place …
Tap the fire button in this vertical shooter, and you’ll hear a familiar sound – the distinct click of a firearm with an empty ammo clip. That’s because every shot fired in Retaliate must be absorbed by activating a shield first. This fills a gauge not just with bullets, but also later missiles and mines …
Even within the pages of charmingly garish ‘90s video game mags, HOT-B’s Steel Empire stood out. Shoot’em ups set in space were par for the course for the Mega Drive, yet here was something daring to be different, featuring a bi-plane and a zeppelin battling steam-powered contraptions using bullets and lightning-based bombs. Not even the …
The Switch misses out on a fair few of this week’s big releases, yet it’s still a busy week for the system with a handful of exclusives of its own. There’s even a first-party release on the agenda. Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition is a new version of NES Remix, only loosely based on the …
Like many examples of the genre, this vertical bullet hell shoot’em up has a tutorial. Nothing usual there, apart from the fact that it explicitly tells you to figure out a crucial mechanic for yourself. This results in a turbulent introduction phrase, not helped by the fact that RPM plays differently from many shooters out …
