Blaze has revealed their first Evercade cartridge for 2024, and it’s a hefty package with thirteen games – the most we’ve seen on a single cart for a while. Yes, quality over quantity is always preferable. It’s still pleasing to have a cartridge with lots to dip in and out of though. THEC64 Collection 3 …
Time looping adventure Outer Wilds has certainly been a long time coming on Switch, first announced way back in 2021. Screenshots suggest the extra time in development has been well spent, showing visuals that are detailed and not hugely compromised – unlike last week’s allegedly disastrous conversion of Batman Arkham Knight. It’s quite a promising …
After being hinted at for a while, Digital Eclipse has made Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story official. This interactive documentary uses the same blueprint as Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration and The Making of Karateka, intended to be an archive of material that dives into the creation of each title, helping to put them into …
The key to making a compelling construction sim is ensuring players always have something to focus on, such as town planning and micromanaging citizens, or perhaps introducing something that requires intervention often. The fear of progress going awry when your back is turned can make an experience all the more addictive. The Station, developers of …
When the humble Evercade launched in 2020 alongside some tired-looking Atari and Namco collections, offering not much we hadn’t seen before, I never expected that just three years later it would host a suite of Duke Nukem games – making the system the best way currently possible to legally sample the beefy brute’s past exploits. …
Following an unfortunate leak, Rockstar has released the highly anticipated GTA VI trailer several hours earlier than planned. The 90-second trailer, which features Tom Petty’s Love Is A Long Road, is seemingly formed from gameplay and cut-scene snippets that showcase a richly detailed game world. We’re introduced to Lucia, the franchise’s first female protagonist, and …
The Switch’s Batman: Arkham Trilogy is off to a slow start in the UK retail chart, entering at #28. The week’s only other new release – The Walking Dead: Destinies – enters one position below Batman at #29. The digital version launched a couple of weeks ago, so it does come as a surprise to …
A labour of love by snowmobile enthusiasts looking to scratch the off-season itch, Sledders seeks to provide a realistic snowmobile experience where you zoom across the snowy tundras and ride powdery slopes so deep you could drown in them. Realism is the theme here. Steering isn’t controlled so much by the skis, but by the …
Ubisoft is no stranger to the Avatar license, creating a tie-in to the first movie back in 2009. Some fourteen years and one movie sequel later, we’re back on Pandora. Preview footage of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora has proven impressive, suggesting the decision to leave last-gen behind was the right call. Hopefully the ability to …
Christmas is fast approaching, and social media is awash with recycled memes. Yes, even more than usual. In addition to guff about Die Hard being a Christmas movie, UK retailer GAME’s infamous Christmas Tinner appears to be doing the rounds again. Back in our day, it was only rubbish BBC Christmas specials that were repeated. …
Last year, yours truly lost almost an entire week to Medieval Dynasty – a settlement builder with survival and RPG elements. It seems many other gamers ended up becoming engrossed in its world too, as publisher Toplitz has used the ‘Dynasty’ name to create a new brand. Sengoku Dynasty entered early access a while ago, now …
Back in August the almighty Red Dead Redemption launched on Switch, reportedly performing admirably from a technical standpoint. It’s likely Guns and Spurs 2 – another open-world wild west adventure – was planned for the Switch long before RDR’s arrival, intended to be an on-the-go alternative. With the real deal now available, Guns and Spurs …
Batman is no stranger to Nintendo platforms, with the Wii U home to conversions of both Arkham City and Arkham Origins. After a short delay, the caped crusader finally arrives on Switch this week in a new collection. Batman: Arkham Trilogy brings together Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, and Arkham Knight. No Origins, sadly – which …
During the early days of 3D accelerated PC games, Interplay’s Kingpin was a pretty big deal, usually found alongside the likes of Quake II, Carmageddon 2, and Half-Life on store shelves. There was something beautiful about big box PC retail releases, wasn’t there? Over the years, however, the crime-ridden PC exclusive seems to have been …
Today’s youth are likely oblivious to how big a deal Jurassic Park was back in 1993. It wasn’t just a blockbuster at the cinema – it was an inescapable beast, taking the cover of magazines no matter the subject, and filling shops with all manner of licensed merchandise. The most recent comparable cinematic event is …
