If you’re able to ‘tear’ yourself away from Paper Mario, you’ll find yet another slew of new releases on the Switch eShop vying for your attention. The Switch didn’t gain Marvel’s Midnight Suns, making Daedalic’s Capes all that more appealing. It’s a turn-based strategy game with upgradeable superheroes and an unfolding storyline. It seems to …
The history of Duke Nukem Forever is one aspect of video game history that’s curiously well documented. While playing this throwback first-person shooter, intended to recall the early noughties with its pixilated visuals and shlock sci-fi setting, I couldn’t shake the fact that part of DNF’s DNA was present here. Not in a derogatory sense, …
With the video game market stalling, publishers have finally realised that it’s beneficial to release their games on as many platforms as possible. Microsoft made headlines with multiplatform announcements earlier this year, and Square-Enix has plans to cast their nets wider too. Yet, the allure is still there for publishers to release games on Apple …
If there’s one thing we can guarantee in these turbulent times, it’s that first-party Switch titles will always chart highly at launch. Proving as much, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door is the UK’s new no.1 in both the all formats top 40 and the Switch top 20. The Prime Matter published System Shock missed …
The tutorial for this tower defence game takes less than two minutes to complete, duly informing how to place defences and gather resources by ordering your “minions” to chop trees and smash stones. Two minutes were all that’s needed – the controls are surprisingly intuitive, using only a few buttons on the joypad. Unfortunately, this …
The Xbox gains a couple of belated bangers this week, with human shepherding puzzler HUMANITY hitting Game Pass, and the sentient action-figure shooter HYPERCHARGE Unboxed launching on 31st May. Microsoft’s box also gains Lesson Learned, a tower-defence game set in a peculiar daydream world. Makes a change from tanks and aliens. The sun soaked arcade-style racer …
The Istanbul-based Hero Concept has revealed Mayhem Brawler II: Best of Both Worlds – a sequel to their mostly well-received 2019 scrolling brawler, set for release on consoles and PCs in 2025. Mayhem Brawler II won’t simply offer more of the same, or even be a retreat with additional characters – it’ll feature randomised Rouge-like …
In the early ‘80s, the console market was a three-way race between Atari, Coleco, and Mattel. Mattel was responsible for the Intellivision, one of Atari’s biggest rivals until Nintendo launched the NES in the US – an estimated 5 million Intellivision consoles were sold. Today, Atari has announced that they have acquired the Intellivision brand, along with …
Despite being a remake, it seems reasonable to suggest that Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is the biggest Switch first-party release of 2024 so far. With Nintendo gearing up for the Switch 2, their primary teams are clearly working on games for the new system. It’s amicable that we’ve received one new game a month; …
There’s no medium more nonsensical than video games. Doug’s Nightmare is a perfect example of this, being a twin-stick top-down shooter based around anxiety and the darkness it brings. It’s a subject well worth highlighting, impacting more people’s lives than many realise, but it also has a coffee-loving banana called Doug as its protagonist. Then …
The UK physical sales charts must be in freefall currently, as the top ten includes two PC games: The Sims 4: For Rent at #5 and Football Manager 2024 at #8. It also seems that the boxed PC version of Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition is selling well, helping it to remain at #2. For those …
There’s a demand on the digital services for inexpensive games; something cheap and cheerful to brighten a dull afternoon that could potentially be bought with leftover credit. With both limited budget and resources in mind, it pays for the developers of these smaller titles (Musashi vs Cthulhu costs just over £4, incidentally) to keep things …
When a publisher plans for multiple instalments of a retro compilation, it’s pretty obvious that well-known games are going to be kept back for later collections. That’s definitely the case with the Taito Milestones series, which is set to receive its third entry this winter – and it’s looking like the best yet. TAITO Milestones …
Microsoft appears to be in a transitional period, provoked by less than stellar sales of the Xbox Series and the Game Pass subscriber count consequently reaching a cap. Our visions were once of regular first-party games from the dozen-or-so studios under the Xbox banner, and it beggars belief that regular output hasn’t occurred – major …
The NSO service updated earlier this week, revealing a distinct theme to Nintendo diehards – the three new titles added to the Game Boy library were all launch titles for the monochromatic marvel, launching 1989 in Japan and the US, with Europe trailing behind in 1990. Glancing over reviews from ‘90s gaming critics, via …
